And it IS as good as the Typhoon. I’m tired of the overreaction of this thread. It’s seriously frustrating. It’s an amazing aircraft that absolutely clean house in RB and has unique advantage in Sim. Any CC worth their salt (Tim’s, DEFYN, etc.) are absolutely praising it.
Is it as good at launching 8 AMRAAM and going back home as the F15E or the Typhoon ? No.
It is however an absolute menace if it manage to close the gap. It has the agility at all speed to counter anything you throws at it provided the pilot knows what he’s doing. More than HALF my death on the Mirage 2000-5F are due to mid/close-range Aim120 launched at me while I’m above mach, because the Mirage lock-up at high speed and cannot turn fast enough to dodge a 120 launched at 8000 meters. Rafale doesn’t care. It has insane nose authority.
And on maps where you can use terrain masking it’s also extremely potent at showing up, launching an unavoidable MICA and dipping out.
AND on top of that, in Sim it has a unique HMD system which IFF the entire freaking map with unlimited range. The situational awareness is unparalleled on a plane that already is a situational awareness king. Oh, and also, IRST.
Apparently not, Bowie posted sources that the L/i-1 didnt have a smokeless motor, unless something else was posted since that countered that point.
I dont think theres any real clear data on what the differences are between the L/i and L/i-1 are tbh. The documentation on the subject seems horrendous and "9L seems to often be used as the designation instead of adding all the extra garbage to the back
31° vertical scan is straight up insane. You can see everything in front of you.
Mirage is limited to 3° vertical, forcing the TWS to only scan at the same altitude at the current target. In term of situational awareness it’s terrible for a TWS system. I constantly have to unlock and relock the TWS to scan the part of the sky I’m interested in on the M2000.
Even the 16° pattern is excellent. Most planes needs very narrow scan limits to reach 15° vertical.
Yes and i corrected my erroneous claim about the top speed on the ground and explained I had been provided the wrong number I was told it hadnt been adjusted from the dev and was still ~300kph too fast on the deck)
Ive also thanked the 3 ppl who provided me info the radar gimbals were in fact ±70° and not ±60° like Id heard.
Its called correcting your opinion when reliable new info is provide. You should try it sometime.
Oh, and like the guys who were attacking me earlier pointed out, you know you can see all my comments right? Nothing stopping you from checking that.
It’s the situational awareness that’s important. Knowing where everyone is help making decision on your targets. I get killed a lot by plane that only appears on my RWR.
My main way of playing French and Soviet planes is to get at around 3000-4500 meters, below contrail height, but above the main pack of players, and sending missiles at the enemies below that get in the furball. Having a wide tracking radar that shows you where every potential target is, is huge. It’s really strong.
EDIT : I do have one grievance with the MICA tho, and I hope it will get fixed, it’s the proxifuse distance. I get way too often hits or crits instead of outright killing the plane because the proxi is too sensitive. It detonate at the same distance as the Aim120 with half the TNT. Either Gaijin need to reduce it, or introduce the directional warhead.
Not as useful in RB with the crutch that is the spotting system, but in sim, having such a good TWS is amazing if you intend on flying high and not just having your radar turned off to use terrain masking and ambush attacks.
Its good but it requires a certain playstyle in which its kinda handicapt by the amount of flares even DEFYN said in his video the flares are a issue. But long range BVR is just the current meta we are lucky 90% of the F15E and EFT players dont know how to BVR.
You can literally dictate how you engage with enemies or not
Stop begging for nerfs on shit that is not even performing as well as it should, Rafales have to defend for more than half the match before they can actually do their trick
Anybody dying before that either overextended or it was a skill issue
We are playing France not the AdA, if you REALLY want to go there then we can delete all experimental planes from the game and all who never entered service, because their nations respective armies never used them
AFAIK Dassault is French and makes by extension, French aircraft
But idk some people here out of nowhere seem to want to make an example out of the Rafale for historical accuracy
Let’s be real, if the playerbase at large knew how to BVR, not a single missile currently ingame would hit past 20km. But we’re not living in a fantasy la-la-land where everyone knows how to play. In a typical 16v16 Air RB match, half the pilot dies without firing a shot, or at best suicide to get their one kill in a head-on trade.
The only thing important in Air RB is “Can the plane take advantage of the chaos to score kills ?” and Rafale answers this with a resounding “Yes”.
I wish we could have Air RB EC, where multirole plane would be able to bring mixed armament, and where strong radar and strong BVR capabilities would be a good thing to have. The Air RB mode is extremely barebone as it is. But Rafale can still perform in it quite well.
Tbh, I stopped using my Aim120 past 20km. It almost always misses. I rather fly around the map a bit wait for the events to unfold, then I try to use AIM120 up to 20km. Even there alot ppl manage to avoid it. MICA on the other hand is a guaranteed kill. Something is strange with this missile (or Rafales radar?). Things I do to evade AIm120 won’t work. Ppl also start to complain in game chat about Rafales. Some claiming MICAs are bugged.