There’s also lock range report for Magic 2, those are two different things.
It is still possible to take up to 8 missiles or MICAs even with 3 fuel tanks. Exchange SCALP on centerline for another fuel tank.
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Yes but Magic II’s main strength is in a dogfight, something the Aim-9M is very weak at. Aim-9M strength is longer range ambush shot. But due to lock range issues. sometimes you just never get a lock.
Was something I covered earlier. Theres been a bunch of bugs passed to the devs for both aircrafts, along with many others ingame, but its the Rafale thats getting fixes and no other top tier jets.
Its not even a question of “good sourcing” either, since the bug reports have been approved and passed, and in some cases, such as with missing ordinance, there’s literal pictures of the missing ordinance, they just haven’t been added.
The most biting stuff tho imo is the Rafale getting stuff other jets SHOULD have, but werent given. It was given a SADL equivalent for its HMD despite the F-16C having missing SADL bug reported for months before the Rafale was even added. It effectively has data adaptive tracking (the updates tracked target every 0.01s thing) but this was denied for the Typhoon cuz its “not in-game yet” (even though we literally know its in-game already), etc…
Yeah, its really annoying its the same 3 nations waiting for Bug reports for their aircraft to be fixed. last time it was the Tornado
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I’m just glad Germany also operate the Typhoon or like the F.3 we would be waiting months for any fixes.
Thankfully one of the big 3 (4) operates the Typhoon too.
oh god yes. If it was Britain only, it wouldnt even be able to supercruise
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What’s the latest fix/improvement for Typhoon? Besides minor fixes like fixing countermeasures for wing tip break-offs.
The last thing I remember is that PIRATE was slightly improved. About a month ago.
the last one was the Radar/HMD improvement one, ~1 month ago
So wait, this means that the Rafale will have better kinematic performance than the Eurofighter, yes?
Because right now it already seems to slightly out accelerate it from the start and only climb marginally worse. The only thing hampering the Rafale is the low speed limit.
Well this makes no sense… It’s almost universally agreed upon that the EF has better raw flight performance while the Rafale has better 1-circle and “knife fight” capabilities (at least until the AMK kit gets introduced)
What is Gaijin thinking?
Most likely yes.
It doesnt, EFT is marginally faster in acceleration. Might not be the case anymore tho with the buff to the Rafale.
Idk, they’ve been in the French’s pocket lately, its pretty weird.
“Britain… must… not… be… competitive…”
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I don’t think it outspeed the eurofighter for the same amount of fuel, i outspeed the eurofighter barely with only 20 min of fuel, i’m sure other eurofighter are at something like 35min.
Sometimes feels like they’re trying to balance this and avoiding making the German eurofighter players riot.
idk if its possible but i’d take 6 maverick
It might be the drop tanks,
I usually bring 2 drop tanks but only 20 minutes of internal fuel in my EF, on take-off the Rafale always seems to pull ahead until I overtake them again when they have to stop because of their rip speed.
I am pretty sure that this next update will mean the Rafale will overtake the EF though. Increase in thrust and decrease in drag at the same time is a hell of a buff.
I take 1 centerline drop tank and full fuel lol (BVR main)
Max fuel and 3 tanks if im not running 7x PW4s :P
Spoiler
Should say, I play SB not RB most of the time
Yeah that makes sense if its SB
Max fuel, no tanks, have a pair of mk83’s and mk84’s under muh wings to kill a base. Used to run 10x pave IV’s, but the loss of 2x AMRAAM wasnt worth the additional multirole capabilities imo.
Yeah. I run 4+5 fit normally, so that means a max of 7 PW4s. Even though it isnt a full base kill .The ability to drop them without having to slam on the brakes is just nice and being GPS guided I can be a little lazy :P.
Then being able to go after tanks or ships with GPS guided or moving tanks or ships with the laser is handy. Sunk the carrier a few times guiding them into the turrets.
Cant kill a base in a sortie, but the flexibility makes up for it