Has anyone made a report for Rafale’s arrest hook not working ?
And is Rafale going to get functional SPECTRA ? It would help alot considering low amount of CMs
Oh and smart flares
The information regarding SPECTRA has been reported internally, for intelligent flares I don’t think it will be added given that this mechanic is not yet in game
Otherwise I haven’t seen a report for the arresthook
We also have A-10 and A-4N with flaps modelled as airbrakes
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The more folk bring up to me, the more disappointment I feel in the devs.
Well they agreed to change the locking/tracking distance of the IRST of the Eurofighter, I hope that they will also be interested in changing that of the Rafale
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/ZDBeRSwcKGrq
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My money’s on “Not a bug” for the French plane.
Hi. I will look at OSF data when I am home, if you have any figure to share feel free
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The problem is that the information concerning the IRST of the Rafale is still classified, only a few secondary sources announce values and when I presented them I was told that it is not precise enough
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I have some but I’m not sure Dassault appreciates seeing a leaked flight manual on the forum
No. Definitely not. If you have any secondary source share it here.
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Maybe if we leak it they’ll fix it.
After all, EFT got touched up after someone leaked info on it…
(This is a joke, please do not smite me mods, I am not supporting espionage.)
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Are we playing the same game?
Here are a certain number of open sources which speak of the OFS IRST, Dassault and Thales do not give a figure but the other sources all more or less agree for a maximum range of 100km for the IRST and 40km for the designation camera
http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/rafale/caracteristiques.htm
http://mpanel.perso.infonie.fr/rafale/radar.htm
https://cmano-db.com/aircraft/3230/#google_vignette
The last source is a priori unreliable so a reservation should be noted on this subject.
From what I have read/see, the OFS is inferior to the PIRATE in the field of IR detection but equivalent in the visible field
According to certain sources, the OFS would allow identification of targets (via their thermal signature or visually), which would give a pseudo IFF to the IRST
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Thank you. I will look at what you sent and what I have tonight.
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Question, do you think the M88-2 is missing some power ?
To be honest, I don’t know the engine characteristics of the Rafale very well.
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if it’s really a F-3R then it shouldn’t have any IR detector, only a (improved) TV one.
The IR channel was removed somewhere along the F3 standard and only reappeared on the F4 serie, using the upgraded IR channel specifically developed for the indian Rafales.
From what I understand from @WreckingAres283 's work, IRST was removed on the first versions of F3 then reinstalled from F3.1 (latest versions) and F3.2
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That’s the OSF as a whole. The IR part was completely removed. You can easily check that by looking at the ball part of the IRST of in service Rafales. All late F3 will have an opaque grey placeholder
It doesn’t seem to be the case, it’s missing a few hundreds kgf compared to the advertised value, which corresponds to the installed losses.