HAF Rafale
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The hate on jane’s is very much warranted considering they get so many things wrong… They are not a serious source to me. Just look at their talking about the f-14… can’t even get conversions from imperial to metric right and constantly confuse them, get wrong azimuth for radars, etc.
Probably 2 to 4 mica max and maybe 1 central or 2 wing fuel tanks (sub or supersonic), that’s their usual peace equipment
Ahhh we don’t actually have any photos. Or anything. Hmmm
Aircraft on peace missions don’t fly at M1.6 at 40,000ft… lol
Depends on the speed range.
Lmao I forget about that, sorry.
To make it more confusing…
Dassault say this:
With a thrust of 10,971 lbs dry and 16,620 lbs with afterburner, the M88-2 incorporates cutting-edge technologies to ensure exceptional controllability throughout the flight envelope: the engine can be reduced to minimum power and returned to full PC load in less than three seconds.
you dont need ingame footage when statshark works just as well.
Does rafale tell which target it’s tracking in cockpit and where ? Cuz su30sm tells in hmd plus sight where does rafale does cuz in sim
if the radar has NCTR it should tell what type of plane are you tracking in one of the MFD’s
I tried finding it in rafale never found it
The rafale gets nctr, but not in sim becuase gaijin don’t know where the nctr would display in the cockpit of the plane.
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Ah thank you that’s what I was looking for in sim never found it that’s why I was asking
You can’t know the load exactly if you don’t know the standard.
Assuming it’s an F4.1(And they load it to the maximum they can) if he’s not in a peace config as you say he could be either in :
A2A mission which means : 8 missiles made of a combination of Meteors and MICA or just MICAs + supersonic fuel tanks on either wings or belly not the 3 at the same time or no fuel tank at all(Not likely)
A2G mission : 6 A2A missiles + AASM/GBUs + TGP + Supersonic fuel tanks or not
Reco mission : RECO pod + at least wing missiles (+Eventually fuselage pylons missiles) + supersonic fuel tanks
Simple travel : Some A2A missiles and the supersonic fuel tanks
Assuming it’d be an F3R :
A2A mission : Remove 2 missiles.
A2G : Remove 2 A2A missiles.
Reco : Nothin changes.
Travel : Nothing changes
And all this is assumptions there is a lot of variables to take in count especially for F4.1 where we don’t know if they frequently use SP3 pylons or not.
And if the pilot was effectively doing this just for fun which is unlikely then it probably would only have 2 wingtip missiles and the supersonic fuel tanks.
I’ll have to ask @WreckingAres283 to review my comment tho. He knows the plane and the loadouts way better than i do. I just made guesses based on what i saw and what is likely or not.
Its impossible to figure the loadout just on that picture, it could be any A2A kinda config.
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Well the fact they are at M1.6 at least discard the subsonic fuel tanks options at the very least no? But yeah except that anything can be supended or nothing at all even.
Oh man will be random but wanted to appreciate your bug reports and threads are very nice
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The missile performances are all other the place, but to be short, energy is also impacted
Some interesting discussion took place on the MICA VL, and running some tests on stat shark (yes i know, not ideal, but it is what it is) and considering the slim amount of sources available, the most reasonable conclusion was :
- The missile most likely accelerates too fast (can even be hypersonic up high in game currently)
- The missile is far too draggy. At 50km and for a mach 2 shot, it would already be transsonic
- The missile is most likely missing loft (almost no loft - 5° - compared to the rest)
A fixed MICA would basically be an AMRAAM, but with TVC, instead of accelerating like crazy before decelerating almost as crazily.
As it stands, and with its current thrust and Cx, the missile would be unable to reach 80km, even if you removed the hard limit, as its battery time would kill it at 57km for the above mentionned scenario
and happy 405
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Love your Rafale camo, funny seeing a fellow Gundam fan in the wild.
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