Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance



isn’t the 30mm 791 spoused to improve on the old 30mm 781 by not only the fire rate but muzzle velocity
791 1025m/s vs 781 810 to 820m/s ?
fire rate 791 up to 2500rpm vs 781 only 750rpm
can some one report that

it has been reported already

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wrong rpm for the gun bug report has been made Community Bug Reporting System

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okay thx u

it got accepted

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Yeah gaijin dropped the ball hard on that, 900kg less is gonna feel good though.

Really shows how much “research” they put in

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I don’t mind too much when it is only the first dev with no update.
What I do mind is stuff like this making it to the live server unfinished.

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Do you know how the data about the combat radius of 1852KM when Rafale carries 8 AAMs and four auxiliary fuel tanks for interception missions came about? I have found many places that claim it this way. If this is true, I think we can start from here. The Rafale fighter only has 5 auxiliary fuel tank attachment points. If we want to achieve the condition of 8 AAMs and 4 auxiliary fuel tanks, then the belly and outer wings must have attachment points for air-to-air missiles.

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/I5m45YYdJ1Zk

I gathered every image I could see and every source I could find advertising an open pylon before the F4 was even conceived; Any possible pre-2021 image, as that’s when Rafale F4 began, entering service in 2023

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do we think its radar is gonna stay the RBE2 or change to the -AA?

They say it will switch to AESA radar, that’s as far as I know.

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yippieeee!!! all we need its 8 Michel then the Ralph will be perfect in sim

This looks better, though I might be blind but I couldn’t find the 8 missiles being mentionned in source 7? Since you have enough sources anyway, it might be best to not use the ones that don’t directly show 8 missiles.
Also the 2013 Dassault tweet should be brought up in the first 3 sources I think, especially if the aircraft’s visual model is Indeed an F3 (looking at the FSO for instance, I’m no specialist).

Marcel Dassault must be turning in his grave rn with how bad this dev Raf is.

Sustained turn I assumed would be a coin flip even though it’s supposed to be close to the EF at lower speeds and it’s gaijin, but even instantaneous is awful.

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Devs already stated FM isn’t final. Wait and see.

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Rafale is overweight by 900kg on the dev server, bug report has already been accepted.
Just wait and see.

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We need this

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It’s 600-500kg according to the developer response to the report, so unless someone has a godsend report regarding it’s performance, it’s not likely to perform well in the one thing it supposedly does better than the EF in A2A. But I suppose Zayf is right.

Source 7 says that the F3 added additional capacity for weapons at the stage of F3.3
It’s there to add additional credibility to the claims

You’re right on my organization being pretty bad, though

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500-600 still would change the characteristics by a decent amount, especially as the Rafale isn’t that heavy to begin with.

But yes, this is only the first dev with no update.
I expect more changes soon.

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