lmao what is this nosense?
Yeah so Rafale doesn’t have a shape to reduce RCS but B1B does. Interesting… Also all numbers on this bad made chart are false but whatever floats your boat mate. Rafale is a Low Observability aircraft, meaning it has a RCS between 1m² and 0.01m² without RAM coating a clean Rafale has a RCS of arround 1m² so going below 1m² isn’t reality bending.
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Actually, this is not a dubious statement, but a picture from a book.
Rafale rcs .001 m^2
Pure uncoated Rafale cannot have 1m^2, and 0.001m2 is at a limited angle with a certain frequency
Which doesn’t make it any less dubious.
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The B-2 Spirit being a higher RCS than the F-117 Nighthawk is laughable. All other papers have the B-2 Spirit at a much lower RCS than the more primitive older Nighthawk.
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The Indians captured frontal look of Rafale and their Su-30 and Mig-29 with a thermal camera during an exercise. It’s an interesting look, note the differences in the intakes:
Spoiler
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Rafale intakes be like : What’s heating?
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This is a very respected source.
Vertically positioned radar, of course, reduces RCS (NO)
The Rafale D is the designation for the production version of the Rafale A, which never made it to production and instead underwent significant structural changes. Does your graph refer to something else?
The Rafale will never have an average RCS of 0.01 m2. Its geometry does not meet these requirements.
If you keep believing the B-2 bomber is of a higher RCS than the Nighthawk despite being a newer design with far more work done to it, as well as a flying tailless design, then I don’t know what to tell you.
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Is it okay that the aircraft designs are different? and the different sweep of the wing, which affects the RCS?
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Why wouldn’t it? The Eurofighter is reported as having an RCS below 1m^2 despite carrying 6 missiles and having less stealth features than the Rafale. Eurofighter - RCS to high (missing RCS reduction features) // Gaijin.net // Issues
Without taking into account the RAM, all aircraft have approximately the same RCS ~0.1-0.5 m^2
Why do you think that is?
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You’re answering my question with a question. How come Eurofighter despite having less stealth attributes than the Rafale can have an RCS lower than 1m^2 (somewhere in the 0.1m region probably) despite simultaneously carrying 6 missiles at the same time?
European NGF