I hope some high schooler finds this and submits it as their final paper
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Writing 1000 words for an exam: NEVER!
Writing 2500 words on an online forum: Yes!
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The Rafale is good in sim, the HMD is excellent to have, making the plane easy to use. But it it is not OP, and the lack of range of the MICA is easy for an F-15 or Eurofighter to go to 9,000m and zooming around safely, the MICA having more range won’t even make too much of a difference besides making these players think about using their Aim-120’s further range.
I would say Rafale is easiest top tier plane in sim to play, but not the best.
Most Nato aircraft have Aim-9Ms which are still the scariest and most reliable missile to kill with, especially head on. MICA and other Fox 3s can be easily be multipathed, Magic 2s are decent but 9Ms and R73 are generally better in most use cases.
While the Eurofighter lacks IFF on its HMD and has worse radar than the Rafale. It has better flight performance and should win dogfights against the Rafale in sim and carries the better 9M and Aim-120.
J-10A and Mirage 2000 are good, both are somewhat overshadowed by EFT and Rafale rn but they are no means bad in the current META.
Meanwhile, J-11A is the worst 13.7.
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It’s an F-16E without the CFT, this is not a vanilla F-16C.
24 DPS empty sounds feasible
I think you are looking at wing loading, and not span loading
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You wrote a critique Jesus it was long to read
the current MICA-EM range is Gimped my boy,… the in game files says it can’t go farther than 50km, which is not even close to what the Contructor (MBDA) said commercially about the missile (80km).
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I would agree with you for balance reason, however, i play sim somtimes and having usa planes spamming you at 40 to 60km you have to defend all the time. Its not verry fun gameplay and it allow them to get clother and get you.
I would understand the range nerf but the aim 120 and even the newest Derby where given respectivly 80% and 100% theorical max range. The mica em should be 50 to 80km not 25 as it is actually, in combat situation.
Its a verry good short to medium range missile so i can wait.
Okey this explain a lot, thx
Not saying it isn’t gimped file wise, but I still think the bug is the main source of its range issues (right now). If it falls back to earth after 20km theres not much exploding after 50km does to make it worse. Either way, it still fails to reach half of its advertised range, in a range meta :/
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Embed failure.
Laugh at this user
(it’s a joke)
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That’s so sad. Always double check for those ! That’s why I usually download files on my computer and then drag and drop. It’s fail proof
literally just
its not that hard
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i have a question, is the Rafale supposed to have more chaff or was that like a rumor?
same as the 2000-5 iirc
alright
Rafale EH (F3-R standard) from Indian Air Force (IAF) equipped TALIOS or Litening targeting pod with present ?
I have questioned for so long 🤔
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From what I could find, the chaff dispensers are the identical ones from the m2k (the spirale ICDs), just rotated. But the other store is the modular one we argued over small/large. I tried to find info on countermeasure pods but left with more questions than answers, supposedly the French have around 6 different types in service including the Swedish BOL pods, but couldn’t find any info on what they use it on. But I’m also terrible at looking up sources, you might have better luck. I’de happily trade a MICA pylon for a pod in 16v16 personally.
Theres also the fact that the m4k was the testbed for alot of rafale things, and it utilizes those weird countermeasure pods that house both modular and 2 ICDs each, though the ICDs don’t function on the m4k despite being accepted months ago, so no 120 large chaff :(. I wouldn’t be surprised if those could work on the Rafale, but all I could find is one document referring to their name and when searching found no other information on it.
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A lot of the countermeasure pods produced by France are prototyped on M2Ks and could theoretically be reported to be used on the Mirages. I have yet to see any for Rafales. Sources do state however that there’s discussions among the French to consider adding more integrated countermeasures to the Rafale F.5, no clarification if they’re discussing the Spirale part or what exactly
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