Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

I think it’s a combination of the Rafale radar being extremely bad, and the novelty of the FM. When we get used to it it will feel better to play.
The same way I can’t for the life of me do anything in the f16am when it’s not much worse, if not better than the Mirage on paper

Radar works much better than yesterday, tho it doesnt come close to its real life performance.

yesterday the radar got notched BY THE MIG-15 IN THE TEST FLIGHT

How does it compare now ?

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Haven’t played it today :). Hot patch finally came, nice. Any changes beside radar ?

It feels much more consistent and works much better, tho from time to time it still looses lock for a sec then reacquires really fast.

I dont know if its me but it pulls harder looks like, i was bein able to pull 14-16G’s without an issue.

that could be deadly in turn fights. Does the HMS lock any easier compared to the Mirage or any other jet ? Since Rafale’s radar is also supposed to make this easier afaik

HMD locks significantly faster than Mirage i can tell that but as usual it refuses to lock sometimes just like any other plane.

gotcha thanks

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i KNEW it wasnt just me
idk why but HMD locks are SOOOO unreliable.
maybe their lock acquisition time is way too short?

I dont know tbh but this problem occurs on almost any plane.

I just did an experiment for low speed turns of Rafale, Mirage 2K5F, Eurofighter and F-4F ICE, all with 25min fuel and only A2A loadout :
Rafale :

Mirage 2000-5F :

German Eurofighter :

F-4F ICE :

Also I only noticed during this experiment, but F-4F ICE doesn’t drop below 447kmh in turn fights, even with its combat flaps on

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They changed EFT’s pilot model to real life counterpart, meanwhile they refused my bug report and claimed there are limited pilot models in this game.

Its obvious Gaijin doesnt care Rafale as much as they care EFT, they could’ve just accept my report and implement it later but instead they straight up refused it…

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Because F4’s flight model is overperforming in sustain turn rate, i believe it was already reported or was about to.

Rafale F4 (F4.2 standard), MICA NG pylons from cdk file

But I suppose in the future gajin add MICA NG (active radar homing medium-range missile) before MICA NG (IR) and Meteor

I might expect french Rafale M F1 Late or F2.2

Odd. But yeah, you guys can also watch the videos to compare turn rates in practice

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Can you drop a vid, I’m curious.

Do we have numbers? Videos are notably less consistent to interpret.

Seems like I didn’t get the update when I made the previous post, I restarted the game and the TWS now works properly.

Sorry about that.

Sadly no. But after watching both videos at the same time on my screens (Rafale vs Eurofighter), I can say Rafale turns notably faster at 350kmh, but using the 2MICA + 2Magic2 loadout