their proportions and design dont look good two seater
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Exactly, they were designed to be single seater originally.
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French are balancing Rafale’s insane acceleration and speed haha.
But in WT it won’t be as good, because currently Rafale has insane fuel economy. You can fly at very high speeds for a long time with very little fuel.
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I mean, is there a plane around that doesn’t look bloated with CFTs ?
F16 is absolutely terrible, F15 isn’t great either, for example
respect her proper lovehandles
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the F-15’s CFT’s are much less prominent and have a function other than fuel which makes them fit better especially on strike eagles.
rafale sorta just looks like a lump on the side of the jet. its sad what french air force did to nice looking jet
Wait the french air force is using these now? Last I checked Rafale CFTs were just proposed for exports
Also about the AASM 1000, it’s basically a hammer gbu 24 like the AASM 250 is a hammer gbu 12 right?
Yes, but instead of using US bombs (that are in pounds), they use French bombs, in kilograms.
To note tho, I believe the AASM 1000 does use a bigger booster than the others, while the 250 and proposed 500 and 125 use the same booster.
Edit : yes, looking at the photo of all 4 sizes, it’s the case
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Cool! Yeah stronger booster makes sense since its much heavier
Considering it’s weight and same capabilities it has to use bigger boost in order to achieve similar range.
Salon du Bourget preparetions ?
Might still be a exposition model for now then
They all look pretty bad, especially depending on some angles, the EFT canopy doesn’t even have a 2nd arch in the middle and it makes it look like a stretched piece of glass.
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Honestly, the Rafale cockpit looks uncomfortable to me.
It’s not a new variant it’s just a Rafale B with CFT. To determine if it’s effectively a new variant, so to say, the Rafale B F5 we’ll have to wait for more detailed images and articles.
F-16 looks good with them has a real brutal look love them on the Block 70+
Typhoon and Rafale look horrible with them though :(
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CFTs were already proposed even before Rafale entered operational service.
AASM-1000 are not new either and were already integrated with F.4.1…
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That’s the one presented at the Paris Airshiw next week. Probably a F4.1 or even .2. Apparently they are going to present a whole lot of spicy new things, including a new MICA IR variant, upgraded AASM, SCALP…
wow the Eurofighter looks really, really bad there…
For me the worst part about them is that they all kinda look they have hunchbacks, pretty ugly.
I hope there will be announcements regarding ASPTT and laser-guided rockets for Mirage 2000 and Rafale, it would be interesting to see the progress made since the announcements a few years ago
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