Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

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6835

if my radar can’t see them I switch to IRST which will see them then switch straight over to radar fire off a AMRAAM. Failing that I use my mk1 eyeball. It’s pretty easy to tell when you’re going to merge just using your mk1 eyeball. Pulling more AoA doesn’t equate to them being able to out dogfight you. It might mean they pull better initially. But considering they already have a worse STR all it means is they are going to suffer as the fight goes on if they end up pulling to much high AoA to often there STR is gonna fall through the floor. Typhoon sustains itself significantly better than a flanker especially so the longer it goes on.

Oh and if you’re carrying a massive payload of brimstone just jettison them.

6836

Where is the NCTR in the cockpit?

6837

Its currently missing, as it is in multiple jets atm. Don’t think anyone’s bug reported it, and I dont have any info on how it should look, so I cant either.

Sim is mostly an afterthought for gaijin, I’m surprised they haven’t just removed it yet with how little attention they actually pay it.

6838

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/RhENzXesA9hb
Still waiting for this one to be fixed rip rafale was told in December that its being worked on and would be fixed in the major update but here we are still nothing

6839

Looks like EFT has one quarter of the HMD symbology and the Rafale has half, witg both missing the full deal lol.

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6840

You do know the typhoon has AESA MAWS right?

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6841

To my understanding there’s nothing confirming this.

6842

Also, it would be weird for EFT to have AESA maws before it has an AESA main radar. It is typically far easier to make and produce larger AESA radars than miniaturized AESA radars fitted across the airframe, especially doing this all in the early 90’s when practically no one had AESA radars at all yet.

6843

Why? The harrier IIs have had a PD MAWS since the 1980s. Why would the typhoon have a weaker MAWS just for the sake of it.

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6844

Also, not really. The company that made the CAPTOR-M/E had their first AESA “main” radar enter service in 2002 in the form of the Seaspray and the Typhoon was outfitted with a prototype AESA in 2008 iirc called CEASER. The technology is there and has been for years. The decision to wait for the technology to mature sufficiently has nothing to do with the ability to manufactor aesa radars

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6845

It could be a stronger PD radar. But it is not feasible for any nation to have had AESA maws in the 90’s. It’s just not possible. Keep in mind AESA radars didn’t exist on fighters at the time either, with F-2 and F-15 being the first application of fighter aircraft’s.

It is harder to make smaller AESA antennas than bigger ones, similar to how older technologies were much bigger to newer technologies.

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6846

If the technology of main AESA aircraft radars required more maturation, then miniaturized smaller AESAs would definitely need more maturation.

It is why every country has AESA radars on their aircrafts before they can even miniaturize it and mount AESA radars on their missiles.

6847

EF had AESA jammers

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6848

Source?

6849

If you give me some time, sure.

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6850

When was this achieved? Or was it upgraded to AESA? Rafale did not have AESA jammers until 2010+ after the AESA RBE2 had been mounted.

6851

Whenever jammers were instaleld in the left pod

6852

It’s not AESA. It’s a commonly known fact that it uses quantum entanglement to see in the future to see if the plane got hit by a missile.
Proof : about as much as the argument it uses AESA

6853

Do you mean the Rafale?

6854

Can this not turn into yet another vs between the 2 its really getting old (and dont start with the they said this they said that)

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