Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

Rafale stealth edition

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War thunder on the ps1

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new RAF-117

Quite happy to see the HMD still broken with radar switching to IR and PD mode for no reason…
preventing MICA launch.

I’m loosing my mind because of that.
The number of kills I miss just becaus of this bug is just ridiculous.

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I would put a keybind to switch from IRST to radar, so with a quick button click, its switched over to PD.

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Not sur to understand

This keybind:

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I don’t get this bug I’m not sure if its my control or settings, but instead I get something more annoying frankly, losing lock for even a second deselects my MICAs and they won’t activate for at least 5 seconds. Something is screwy with the whole system atm.

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“Rafale underperforming in sustain turn at low speed by whole 4 degree/s and lack bit AoA”
can someone report that?

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/6dKurgoa95XA

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After some digging and formating: I’ve added a list of (valid) Bug Reports to the OP. Removed the General History part in order to not reach the type limited, its still in my archive as well as Suggestions though.

I’ll color code the most important reports soon as well.

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" My uncle flew both Rafale f3 and f16c block 52 and he said it clear to me"
if i had to fight between both of them i will fight f16 in my rafale he also said rafale turn better and has a better control then f16c but f16c has better Visibility"

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This sadly does not work when the game still thinks IRST is preferred. You can click the keybind, see that the angle limits change, as if some part of the system switches to radar, but the mode itself will still be radar with no ability to launch radar missiles. It helps sometimes, but when it does, it (usually) will have already automatically switched to radar anyway.

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Strange, i never had any trouble with the radar switching to irst when locking

I’m also loosing lock randomly or the lock switch for something else.

But my main issue still the fact radar switch to IR mode (from PD) and prevent MICA launch. It happened so many times yesterday, it was crazy.

Even the radar on Mirage 2000 is way more reliable. On Rafale it’s pure bul****.
Here again, clear sky, a Mig 29 is coming towards me:

HMD mode, try to lock it: switch to TRACK IR

It can’t launch MICA.
I try to re lock: switch immediately to TRACK IR mode.

By the time, I try to notch: I’m dead.

I don’t know what happen with me because when I watch video from Bad_Karma or other youtubers, it NEVER happen.

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/6dKurgoa95XA
I have a question for the CBR, why is this report suddenly accepted based on a clipping from a brochure and a couple of videos (which, according to Gaijin, are not the source)?. Why isn’t there the same reaction to the rest of the reports? Where did people even post documents and manual calculations?

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Is there a reason why an IRST lock can’t be used for a MICA launch? Couldn’t you previously launch ARHs with only an IR track or am I misremembering?

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It used to be when MiG-29 was first added that you could lock and fire R-27ER in IRST before it was removed after a month or so. But no one has the ability to fire ARHs with IR track and never had, iirc.

The Rafale should have that ability alongside the British Eurofighter and Russian aircrafts though, to fire ARHs with IRST lock.

The Rafale should be able to fire MICA and the future Meteor and MICA NGs by…

  • Using the IRST lock with angular multi-tracking at long range (100-130km)
  • Using the TV sensor with laser range-finder at medium range (40km)
  • Using the SPECTRA RWR which can triangulate the 3D position of targets at long range (250km)
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Letting the IRST/TV sensor on rafale launch and direct missiles will definitely be a really big buff to the Rafale, hopefully it goes through before I finish grinding it.

And as hilarious as it’d be to use the RWR to launch MICAs at enemy missiles and aircraft… I feel like that’d be considered a super broken capability. But it would be very very funny.

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