Oh no I’m not incorrect
You still have AASMs, and I said MAJOR differences, I can confidently say I do not see that as a major difference in its capabilities
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It’s that time to write another SP3 Pylons repots.
The only difference is that this time it’s for the realistic.
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Losing DAMOCLES, HMD, AESA, Every GBU Support whatsoever and Modernized SPECTRA is not a major difference in capabilities?
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Oh
We just got the RMV which can get AASMs and far more bombs than it has access to yet, do we REALLY need to focus on the CAS aspect of the Rafale so soon?
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🤓 u just hating
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I do not agree with your point, you pointed out there would not be a loss in capabilities but you are wrong, losing a good amount of multirole capabilities AND getting a worse sensor suite is a big loss in capabilities.
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My point is that the F2.2 was a viable choice for a first Rafale, screw the goalpost shift attempt I will stand by the fact F3R was too early by a long shot
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Currently EFT and Rafale F3-R have somewhat similar capabilities for ground while EFT have an edge in Air-To-Air, by having an F2.2 it would just make it outright worse, you also have to take into account this. Earlier Rafale can always come at a later date.
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Yes, it is mostly because of how gaijin move the game we can’t do much, either earlier rafale variant would have been too much or they would have been too bad, there is no right answer, we can only hope that those earlier variants will be added in the tech tree.
exactly, and doesn’t have to be a squadron, premium or event, could normally be between M2000-5 and the actual rafale or maybe a Rafale-M under M4000 or else
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The Rafale F2.2 even then was a very capable platform that had PESA compared to the still mechanical Eurofighter, had its front sector optics, capable fire and forget air to ground weaponry, and could hold its own I’m sure
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I think F3.2 as they initially planned would have been fine.
- PESA radar, not ground breaking but enough
- IR and GPS AASM only, which would have been busted enough already
The only thing missing would have been a MICA fix, and we would have been good to go. Right now it just feels like we are getting the last shiny thing that will just arrive in a broken state, and instead of fixing it, they will just bring it the next new shiny thing later down the road
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A proper MICA fix would do wonders for the Rafale
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Rafale C F3-R was planned to come, where did you heard it was initially planned to be an F3.2?
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maybe he was referencing the leaks of the last month
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early leaks mentionned F3.2 afaik
Could be wrong, but since they change the version number on a whim anyway, at this point i’m not sure they even had a precise version in mind
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Dataminer’s call it F.41, its still F.3R regardless. Scorpion JHMCS was tested before F.4 roll out (as well as other JHMCS), only GMTI has to be reported as wrong feature as off now.
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So we should be able to get the aasm-1000 too on it, and i guess radar name should change again ?