Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

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Yeah reduce the missile count to 6. Bet in a few days you’re still here crying all your tears that Rafale still has the highest KD/WR/KPM all of of Rank VIII because with less missiles people would go back to the old French style, so to say : “Be evasive at long range and make perfect shots at close ranges”. Resulting in Rafales always getting 6 kills and having 4 Rafales in your team that aren’t stupid would be enough to always end a whole game in seconds.

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“Sure, do a bug report then, don’t blame the French Bug Reporter.”

Just like every other aircraft that are domineering, laugh in F-14 that literally dictate the battlefield and the reason why the US getting mirrored everytime.

*Dictated. Now in the BR 12 range its F18 that mogs everything.

And yet you still here, I don’t know who’s the one is wasting time.

The guy that keeps constantly invading this thread, or the one that defending it.

Inb4 this thread would be warned again, but again and again people wouldn’t heed it.

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People legit making a drama over the Rafale while at different BRs it’s totally different nations that dominate the air.

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Agreed, these topics are done and dusted, but they always have to be revived, and always in the most hostile way.

Hey it’s exactly 1000 messages left, this thread would make history for being the most invaded thread in War Thunder, probably rivalring only to the Kh-38MT Thread.

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Back to actual topic; the french Defense Government confirmed the existance of an F.4.3 test aircraft, which has already conducted some tests with DGA.

The continuation of the development will last until qualification - no official information on what has changed so far.

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They don’t.

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Prove it.

Aim-120C5 has the same seeker as every single other modern ARH missile in the game… bar the MICA EM which is almost impossible to notch.

Aim-120C5 has identical agility to the Aim-120B. Which is one the weakest, if not the weakest of all the modern ARH missiles in this regard

The only thing the B/C5 does better than the MICA EM is pure max range… but if you are being killed by an AMRAAM at any meaningful distance, then… skill issue.

Last time I checked. AMRAAM couldnt be fired 90 degree off boresight and hit something in a notch, deploying chaff. But I see MICA make that shot all the time. Im not entirely sure it is actually possible to defeat a MCIA EM fired at short range…

So Prove that MICA EM is equal in performance to the Aim-120C5.

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Regarding tests, I’m curious about something phrased regarding SPECTRA. Some documents state that DDM-NG has potential DIRCM capability. Is this a form of future-proofing? or has a Rafale been tested with DIRCM at some point?

The Mica is the Rafale’s shorter range missile irl while the meteor is long range. The amraam on the other hand is the long range missile on the planes it equips. I doubt they have similar performance

The AMRAAM does whatever is required of it

I’m talking about AIM120A/B. And mostly about range performance. As mentionned before except the overall drag and burntime AIM120 loses in weight and diameter sector to MICA which makes to my knowledge absolutely no sense to claim AMRAAM can have a difference of more than 30km of max range with MICA. Except if MICA is modelled wrong in game and would have a shorter burntime but as I know people who advocated that MICA has the correct burntime and Fireball said the burntime should be shorter the diff in burntime between the 2 missiles is a shadowzone to me. But still i highly doubt that just as AIM120A/B, MICA absolute max range would be 80km i strongly believe that in the most optimal scenario it reaches beyond that.

If you are talking MICA EM vs Aim-120B… Then… the AMRAAM has maybe a firing window of maybe an extra 5km?

But below that, MICA EM is suiperior in every single respect.

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Read again i added extra infos.

That is not ultimately true. MICA EM has been made to be a SRAAM/MRAAM while MICA IR is indeed made only to be a SRAAM. But yes METEOR is Rafale only BVRAAM but it’s not a MRAAM this role is filled by MICA EM and soon it’ll be replaced by MICA NG.