Well, I made the Bug report concerning the Rafale’s ability to fire AASMs without a designation pod (it’s frankly not my best done bug report)
Austrian-Rafale-brochure.zip (819.9 KB)
Sure, had to compress it to post it here. Comes from here : Aircraft - Land Air Sea Defense
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Idk where you guys are getting this limits from, you could always just mark target 30km away, launch on INS/GPS and laser it in at the end.
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It’s not exactly an advertisement booklet, you can judge it by yourself. A report being aknowledged doesn’t mean the devs will accept it anyway.
Also the current Rafale’s FM is completely made up, which isn’t exactly ideal either.
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ok finally he’s here but why the f did they put it after the 5F and not the 4000 (literally the prototype leading to the Rafale A)
we are talking about tgp limitation. if you fire a gps munition at 30 km, the POI of that munition will be in the air, bcs tgp cannot stab onto ground more then 20km above the limit.
all they have to do is not get close, but they do it anyways
no, rafale prototype and mirage 4000 prototype were developed at the same time, even have picture together.
plus rafale replaced mirage 2000 5f’s same reasoning why f15e isnt after f15c in us tt
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the super mirage 4000 was a big inspiration for the Rafale A (demonstrator) and known by all as the precursor of it, it’s not fair to put it behind the 5F
This explains some funky things I’ve had happen with PGM
the 4000 was more of a private export venture from Dassualt while the Rafale was wanted by the french for a new carrier jet
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@Gunjob How come Rafale cannot get the two additional MICA but Su-27SM can receive a twin pylon that does not even fit the aircraft irl? The space between the nacelles was made larger on the Su-35 and allowed them to fit the additional ordnance. The Su-27SM is totally incapable of actually mounting this ‘upgrade’.
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Guess which aircraft is russian between the Su-27SM and the Rafale ?
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I want Damocles replace with Damocles XF or TALIOS targeting pod
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https://archives.defense.gouv.fr/air/moyens/avions-de-chasse/rafale-f3-r.html
On the government website you can see the F3-R having 14 hardpoint
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That is not relevant in the slightest, if they were biased towards the Su-27 or MiG-29 they’d fix their FM’s. They have far more issues than the Mirage 2000 by contrast. Nonsense statement on your part.
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It is not because there are 14 hardpoints that the 14 points can carry all types of weapons, in your original post you announce that points 4 and 11 can carry weapons, but there is no proof concerning these points. Point 7 has never, to my knowledge, carried weapons for French aircraft
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in the photo of the article(which date to 2014) you can see a rafale F3R carrying 2 meteor 2 MICA EM and 2 MICA IR so as well as 6 AASM a configuration that proves that French F3 rafales at one point even if it is only for testing are capable of carrying AAM on 8 different pylons
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