Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

Tell that to gaijin. We all know AESA should scan all their vertical + horizontal volume at super fast speeds thanks to T/R modules that act as so many individual radars to allow to track several targets while continuing to scan the air but that’s not how they ccoded them.

They do, but only for targets you’ve already spotted once with the main radar scan, which is why getting your full scan mode halved is so detrimental.

The RBE2-AA radar updates all targets its already seen and have not yet left its gimbal limits every 0.04 seconds in-game.

Thats what this code is for:

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F-15E, Rafale, Tornado

Does Rafale have gravity nuke capacity or just missiles btw?

missile only

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nah this is far from being a niche scenario, i too would consider it a buff tbh

Okay but then it means that their code is not working as in TWS i often lost some targets tracking despite my radar having them spotted already and the targets didn’t leave radar gimball.

Yup, from Datamine;

Thales RBE2 AESA (Rafale C): full search, full TWS:

  • period: 15.923827 → 7.9238276 sec,
  • bars: 14 → 7
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Even just stands be useful for situational awareness when focusing on ground attack in other game modes.

If the AESA was working correctly, that is with a much faster volume scan rate, then I’d consider it a nerf. With the previous 17s scan volume for the 140x30, I much prefer having less vertical coverage with the 140x15 that can be compensated by the 70x30 pattern, especially with ESA radars being able to keep tracking outside of the scan pattern

Realised there are now boats in RB across a fair few maps, which just further amplifies the frustration of no exocet.

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Targeting pod got increased in zoom

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Damn is good, thanks !

Looks like they are adding digital zoom back, that’s nice

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Ambitious regarding the BAC but why not?

Eurofighter is under active consideration for the addition of AIM-120C, vote on the poll please if you haven’t already.

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At first I thought you are asking people to vote for the addition of AIM-120C to EF :)

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120c only advantages it seems compared to 120a/b at the moment with current changes is less drag and more battery. Doesn’t look like it’s going to be that scary.

But also give historically accurate MICA

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It should have more thrust and less drag compare to A/B models.

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This new rwr/map overlay is supposed to show bandits/ground systems that the sensor fusion picks up correct? IRL it also shows bandits that the radar has picked up on tws as well, showing their LNP in the flight computer.

This will make notching very easy in sim if it can show incoming rwr launches and show the missile in real time it as approaches the aircraft as spectra’s sensors track incoming threats.
telling the pilot if the threat is radar or infrared guided.

“eventually allowing us to engage targets simply by locking hostile pings from the data computer as spectra allows IRL.”

Similar to these depictions.

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Probably because the missile is still work in progress
If it actually performs like it should irl, it is a big upgrade over the current AIM-120s we have in the game.
Then again Gaijin might artificially nerf the range to keep some semblance of “balance,” you never know how exactly they operate.