Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/xuDPotfKX69m
ill make a report in a bit for its hook, still waiting on my keyboard smh

Soon™

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My honest reaction:

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…what?

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So just got on after nap. MICA feels like it is working significantly worse, not fusing, failing to track, and not tracking until a good 2 seconds off the rail. Anyone else running into this Rubbish? Could just be network issues, but network situation is about the same as before nap.

Isn’t it just the same problem that were reported long ago ? Saw on a stream on devserver a shot that was made at like 6km to an ai mig 15 and the first missile succeeded to miss, i guess mica still overcorrect too much or something.

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The shot was not straight to it and the missile still had to pull some g but it clearly had time to correctly reach the plane.

It’s behaving significantly worse than it has previously for me. All 5 launches in the prior round either didn’t fuse or completely missed. Previous match had weirdness as well.

It seems to have unfucked itself. Who knows what the issue was.

As of now only the Laser AASM needs Damocles to be fired.
The OSF can already slave the targeting of the IR variant and create a GPS marker for the GPS one.

All in all, I would not recommend using laser variant without Damocles due to the limited gimbal of the OSF when looking down/to the sides

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Otherwise i don’t think i saw those reports posted here, what do we think about those ? (if not my bad) :

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[Dev] Rafale missing airbrake (with new evidence)

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[DEV] Rafale missing hardpoints

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[DEV] Rafale incorrectly listed as F3 variant

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The first is correct, the plane is indeed missing an airbrake feature, the second and third have been denied too many times. It is indeed an F3R and its missile load is correct.

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Nah, you don’t understand, we got this picture and everything.

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Apparently the devs feel like it would be too difficult to model it properly, so they don’t plan on giving it an airbrake for now. Quite the disgrace.

Before someone makes a bug report, this “hole” next to the red warning light is correct;

Dev:

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IRL:

grafik

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From their response, they seemed to claim it impossible. But we can keep trying.

It would seem so, I don’t understand why anyway.

Yeah i guessed so for the part of the hardpoints, otherwise putting it at an f4.1 variant would solve the big issue, could have an f3r at 13.7 in air it wouldn’t change much.
And other rafale at f4.1 would be fair game against this tranche of eurofighter for the missile loadout because 6 is really ehh at this point.

Except if i missed something f4.1 does not bring something special and there wouldn’t be sources for the upgraded radar anyway.

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Best thing to do is keep ranting about it. And maybe make new reports if needed.

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I don’t understand why on account of us having aircraft that use control surfaces in game already.

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Difficult to model it properly I guess. Making it work while keeping the plane manoeuvrable could be hard to program.

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In all fairness:
A. we wouldn’t have this problem if they didn’t put a weak band-aid over the issue of Top Tier ARB having too many people per lobby
B. If they just make the MICA realistic 6 is enough

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