Next to nothing is known about LREW (which seems to be PL-21 or later missile’s counterpart)
So we will have to wait for a long time. I wonder how the Meteor MLU on the Rafale will stack up against AIM-260 on other fighters, but we will have to wait for some time before that can be answered with any bit of certainty
Would like to hear more about AMRAAM-AXE though, let’s take it to the amraam thread
The rafale already carries missiles that weight more than the ASTER. The SCALP is an exemple of it. The main issue is the shape and weight distribution of the missile I believe
yeah thats what i said
Weird how this post gets flagged when the mod i’m making fun of is a friend of mine and likes this post lol
Makes me also wonder how far the development of dual Meteor mounts has come by now and if France would introduce these on F.5.
May be a better solution considering you would loose lot of fuel by attaching Meteors on the fuel tank pylons.
I feel like it’d be more likely we see the return of the centerline pylons and/or possibly mounts for the cheek pylons(Maybe not Meteor, but MICA at the least) before they sacrifice the inner wing pylons just due to how important those drop tanks are.
Is the IRST MFD tracking broken again?
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/oOtdaQ0qXCoo
Been marked as fixed but it only works with TWS hard locks. Doesn’t work with any HMD, ACM, TWS soft locking or any IRST locking.
We have to wait for them to fix this report: TV slaving to the radar is inconsistent in implementation // Gaijin.net // Issues
News on Rafale’s supercruise, while it is not the Mach 1.4 like I asked for, it is close. They’re increasing supercruise capabilities from Mach 1.14 to Mach 1.32 or so, and they’re doing this by increasing installed thrust and slightly lowering drag. This should have huge benefits for other parts of the flight model such as climb rate, acceleration, thrust-to-weight ratio etc
Rafale lacks supercruise capabilities // Gaijin.net // Issues
So, is that a problem of how the game is handling plane to start with ? I mean it seems strange they are going for a middle ground if they think it is quite heavily unrealistic.
They have a problem with supersonic drag as a whole in terms of math and what’s theoretically possible.
This issue will come up again when they try to model the F-22 and its supercruise which is said to be around 1.8-1.9. That might be the time when we revisit the issue of Rafale being able to supercruise at Mach 1.4 with 6 MICAs.
Ok, thanks for explaining.
Glad to see the Rafales getting its supercruise fixed to some degree, unfortunate the EFT doesnt seem to be on the other hand.
Pretty sure this now means the Rafale will be superior in supercruise to the EFT in-game actually, since iirc the Typhoon hits M1.3 clean vs the upcoming M1.3+ w/missiles the Rafale is claimed to be getting
This change would also improve the energy retention capability of the Rafale.
That’s also what I’m hoping for as well but I don’t want to jump the gun and say something without being 100% sure.
Updated Bug Report list.
Nice mica-ir shot.
Btw guys, what others variants/standards do you think will come next? F4 standard? Rafale M?
Ok, ik how this is gonna make me sound but when i read f4 i imagined a phantom rafale hybrid
