Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

I’ll be with you don’t worry

The bug report I made for IRST was instantly blocked because there was not enough data, so we are currently limited to about 15km range. I am currently writing a new one so that the camera is linked to IRST (as it is IRL)

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There is no real official source that talks about the IRST so I’m afraid it will remain in this state.

Radar cant even track targets beyond 60km, its worse than anything at top tier right now.

Not to mention it easily looses track and struggles to capture it again, feels like f4c radar tbh.

[DEV] Rafale FSO-IRST not tracking // Gaijin.net // Issues

Good news everyone, the bug report for the HUD has been submitted for review.

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It’s surely placeholder. The issue being we don’t know if it’s RBE2(PESA) or RBE2 AA(AESA) so bug reporting atm for radar is kinda impossible as the radar is not known clearly.

This would be really neat for Sim.

So I’m not holding my breath.

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What is not a placeholder at that point, even the gun has a low firerate

It’s AESA, according to bvvd. I think they initially planned for F3, and then changed to F3R.
@WreckingAres283 is the F3R also limited to 6 missiles tops or are there been any trials of a 8 missiles loadout on the F3R in preparation for the F4 ?
I have to say, while for historical accuracy 6 missiles is the best, for gameplay and balance reason we might want to have 2 extra missiles since it’s unlikely MICA would get meaningful buff imo

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As he said before wanting more let’s get them fixed which would legit bring more advantages than just 2 more of them.

The core of the issue with the MICA is its instability. It’s a netcode issue that has been present since the ASRAAM. I am not expecting anything to change on that side that would stop the wobbling issue that is destroying the range of the missile.

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Not really. Main problem is huge drag, which causes MICA lose speed very quickly

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I made that for number of coutermesure :

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/XR9Sj563MRiw

If you have more evidences, add them to the topic pls :)

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Also MICA EM is lacking a very speccific table of calculation taht prevents the missile from pulling excessively too soon which leads to lose a lot of energy.

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Yeah, so from what I could find the Rafale AESA is lacking in power and range but decent software. Though many other AESA equipped fighters have sensors fusion

Not really

both took the image from the same source which was this website here

Why is only the image with the Rafale with 6 micas valid?

The version that comes into the game is an F3 version which is limited to 6 missiles, the F4.1 version brings the possibility of having 8 missiles

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I really hope, as a sim player it will be incredible

Do later models get more than 6 missiles?