Let’s be honest. Gaijin will look at the plane’s performances and might add 2 more missiles considering this proposal where Dassault showed that they could technically have the F3 variant carry 8 missiles.
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Hello Wrecking!
I’m writing a repot, and I was wondering if I could post a picture of this article from before?
This is not a bug repot, but a suggest to give the Rafale an air-to-air pylon next to the wingtip.
On the contrary, the game need more arbitrary buff nerf. It’s a game, it needs balancing. 6 missiles in AirRB is a very light loadout. Especially on Rafale who has limited early game impacts due to the range of the MICA. If you go 4+2 IR you simply won’t have any match presence, and if you go full EM you will be very limited in dogfights situation.
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The SP3 pylons (which you are reffering to) were added with F.4.1, the pictures in the article also show the C101 testbed, not an actual production aircraft to.
Getting MICA fixed should rather be the goal of everyone, than another frankenstein in form of a Rafale tbh.
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I remember the 2009 Paris Air Show, which also showcased the Meteor air-to-air missile. Inside the venue, it didn’t conflict with the first photo, it should have been a model missile mounted on it.
Soo we are coming in with 6x missiles no IR when the typhoon is pulling up with 8x AIM-120Bs and 2 AIM-9Ms ?
That’s… disappointing
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actualy i really think that even the Rafale F3.2 was able to carry up to 8 missiles . it’s just that the french army never really put full missiles loads on it and prefered to use fuel tanks
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That’s the right way to go, but I wanted to show it to that developer.
i mean it’s still in progress we will maybe see some changes , same goes for the counter measures … 32 is not realistic
False it can only come with 6 120B and 2 9Ms otherwise it’s 4 120 + 6 9Ms
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6 amraams, bug report for 8 got shot down with not a bug within seconds of being posted.
Still significantly better than what rafale offers, platform included.
I saw 32 CM + 112 chaff in the stream though ? Unless I missed something. It might also gets additional CMs with the MAW research like on the S5.
I stand corrected
Still a big downgrade from the 5F
Any info about the actual countermeasure size rather than with current WIP countermeasure size?
5F should lose the 8 missile capability. Also remember Rafale is still way more potent than Gripen and J10A or Mirage 2000s or F16 and F15 except F15E. Legit Rafale and Typhoon will be the 2 best planes of the game until planes with TVC nozzle engines get added.
So it is confirmed as F3-R, meaning we have AESA 1000%. SWEET Guys! Congratulations to all Raf enthusiasts!
False it’s a mix from various all F3 variants and it is possible we never see AESA before Rafale F4. According to what RU devstream showed we have the PESA because the radar locck range is something like 160km and angle of search is 120° while AESA should have lock range above 180 or 200 kms and 140° of search cone.
This.
Fixing what’s broken is more futureproof than going in an arms race with MICA IRs, Meteors or an impossible amount of missiles.
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Looks like we’re getting the F.3R
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