For T2 onwards it uses a different CPU, the F-35 adopted the same CPU
PowerPC is Apple-IBM-Motorola from wiki.
and do you have proof F-35 used the same one?
Only this source which has tracked true so far
well it seems they are replacing the old one (improved PowerPC probably) with a new one called ICP that has 25x the processing power.
Youre always talking bad about euro chill man rafale aint gonna let you fly
No, it’s fair to recognise that the Eurofighter consortium lags behind other countries when they opt to not employ technologies which have already been in service with such other countries for decades.
It’s not a case of the consortium ‘refraining’ from being on the forefront of technology, it’s that they simply aren’t on the forefront of technology.
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It’s more like European nations don’t want to fork out the cash for this stuff.
Don’t you forget that companies like BAe and rolls Royce still very much get paid by countries like the USA to design their stuff.
It’s not about tech it’s about money.
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The cost of development for the Rafale was three times lower than the Eurofighter programme and the Rafale still used an AESA radar over a decade before the Eurofighter (among other things). So no, it’s not a ‘money’ issue, it’s a competency issue.
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I think this dude might be trying to rage bait people, could be wrong though.
Yeah no wonder the Rafale was cheaper it piggy backed off of a ton of development already conducted.
Care to remind me who had experience in unstable delta fly by wire jets ?
Oooooh
Israelis
They came up with the whole canard system did they not.
Mirages were also not aerodynamically unstable.
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Man forgot the entire Mirage 2000 family.
Israeli jets were also not fly by wire. They indeed added canards, but that’s not what I said. Reading problems ?
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It’s barely relaxed in stability the aerodynamic design of the 2000 is not advanced enough to keep the nose down if it was as unstable as the EFT/rafale.
Most jets actually have a level of CG shift as the 2000 does. On the other hand most do not have the CG shift of EFT and Rafale.
Rafale had 2 stakeholders The French air force and the Navy.
Typhoon had to meet the differing requirements of the 4 different nations!
If you have ever tried to manage a project the fewer stakeholders you have the easier the whole programme is. Germany didnt want the Captor-M they wanted the APG-65 a US made Radar, ready to go and cheaper.
We are also being disengenous and not comparing the earlier Rafale with earlier 2005 Typhoon.
We are comparing the Rafale from 2018 with the Typhoon of 2008ish
When Captor-E is rolled out and the upgrades to PIRATE their will not be a huge ammount of difference in the Radar department with the Captor-E probably being superior in some areas.
Still closer (and thus more experience) to the eurocanards design than the Tornado, going back to who initially brought more expertise.
Well. The tornado does have the benefit of being a jet I guess. And it has 2 engines ! That’s 1 entire more engine than what France used to do
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The max targets change is a mistake. I’ve raised it with a Dev.
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The single engined delta wing
design…what a good idea that was.
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Going back to more civilized discussion (I was being petty ik ik), I would say the requirements of the 4 different actors are not more difficult to obtain than the requirements of something so different than the French Air Force and the French navy. The constraints of having to have a jet that must be catapulted for the navy constrains a lot the potential for the airforxe. The balance between those 2 are much harder to find than say between a country that wants a bomber, another an interceptor… Well, a multirole jet (which both consortium ended up having).
Plus France needed a nuclear capable aircraft, which is yet another layer of complexity
Lets compare earlier variants of the rafale, say from 2008. They already had a PESA back in the 90s. The sensor fusion of the aircraft was already present. All it would lack would be some ground ordinance and an upgrade to its SPECTRA suite (all the elements are there, just not upgraded).
If we keep to war thunder, the main difference would be the radar (and it would probably work the exact same way knowing gaijin), 2 missiles, and the AASM. Knowing the EFT community, they would complain just as much.
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Saab was doing the whole relaxed thing for a while too.