Also the same report states the 1.4 Mach super cruise is an advantage of the Eurofighter, which implies the Rafale can’t do 1.4 mach supercruise. And doesn’t provide configuration information.
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The trials report in question is their earlier gripen purchase that didn’t go through
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Well this is the issue we have, either we treat manufacturers tests as fact or we don’t. One thing we cant do is trust some manufacturers while questioning others.
Rafale is an incredible aircraft. I take umbrage with Dassault and SNECMA providing data that confirms it’s capabilities while Gaijin discount what Eurofigher GmbH and operators of the airframe claim the aircraft can do.
You cannot have it both ways.
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I have to go look for it, but wasn’t there a test flight where a rb199 equipped eurofighter maintained mach 1.1 on dry thrust after accelerating past the sound barrier and to a higher speed on reheat?
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Bit of a difference here, as far as I can tell, there are no actual publicly available sources that the RBE2-AA is underperforming in anything but scan area. We can obviously guess that it is underperforming, but in what exact manner we dont know, and many of the features that are superior on AESA radars are not even implemented in-game atm. On that note, already being the best radar in-game by a considerable margin is easily good enough for the time being.
Get out of here with your low effort trolling.
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Isn’t the RB199 a Tornado engine?
yes
yes, they were used for testing before the ej200 was avilable on da1 and da2 iirc
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Jup, it was a test aircraft. Pilots were quite surprised about this happening. Now if only I could find where I read it.
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That makes sense what an upgrade the EJ200 is
This is just cope. The actual document discusses the “strong points” and the “weak points” with no relation to the performance of the Rafale in that paragraph excluding the ranking.
And neither do any of the sources stating M1.5 …
If this were the case then both cases should be examined and compared. But this is not case.
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Then dont bother commenting?
Apparently the RB199 equipped Typhoon wasnt half bad. I was actually expecting it instead of the T2s we actually got.
Though what I find really funny was the plan to stick EJ200s into the F3
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You miss it again, why should we trust Dassault and SNECMA over Eurofighter GmbH or the operators of the Typhoon?
You are stating that Eurofighter have lied about the capabilities of the airframe while treating what Dassault claim as empirical truth.
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and the CAPTOR-M, a mechanical radar, should be able to track 20 including air or ground simutaneously iirc and using Priority track, keep them all updated in the same way an AESA radar can and thats in addition to the 200 that the PIRATE can track
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If M1.4 was a “strong point” of the EFT, it means by definition that the Rafale was inferior in that aspect. It wouldn’t be a strong point if it was matched/exceeded by another one of the jets in the competition.
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Objectively comparing radar capabilities is whinging now lmao, sure.
It can’t track 20 targets simultaneously within its field of search: Community Bug Reporting System. It probably can only continue to track like 4 priority targets whilst still searching.
its 20
The original variant of the radar can track up to 20 targets at once, while engaging eight of them simultaneously. The radar has two main mechanically scanned variants: CAPTOR-C is the original version, only fitted to Typhoons of the Tranche 1 production lot and CAPTOR-M is a later version fitted to Tranche 2 jets onwards. The two standards differ in both hardware and software.
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Have you read the document? It states that a supercruise of M1.4 was one of few “strong points” compared to all the “weak points” such as “data fusion” and “EW suite”.
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