Good year all!
I hope the wishes already received by you and yours are holding true.
Here are a few remarks in total disorder on this lazy sunday morning.
To complement Scorpio82’s very good educated guess and JackJack’s
reply, i would like to offer this link to the simple fact sheet of the AASM
provide by the French govt dedicated site :
http://www.ixarm.com/Technical-card,20860?var_recherche=AASM
The metric day/night version of the AASM using hybrid inertial/GPS
guidance with an infrared imaging system.
As such, it can leave the plane on GPS and strike on IR sensor!
That is why some American airmen in ‘STAN have gotten the habit of
calling it a “magic bomb”.
Check out the upcoming versions to find mention of a dedicated anti-
radar one.
In answer to mrmalaya, you are pointing in the difficult region where
the gen war is taking place.
The definitions that cover those generations of sort have come from the United States. It is in itself reasonable since they have the F-22 as a top-most tech A/C to offer in comparison.
BY those standards, Rafale is a fourpointfive plane. It cannot be only fourth gen because of its omnirole capacity but was though out from the beginning
to be upgraded continuously to always remain top line four+.
BY those standards, Rafale may not enter the fifth gen arena on account
of not being inceptually based on VLO design and that is not denied by
anyone including Dassault; They use “discreet” to mention the “.5” aspect
of the plane’s design that makes it LO in most directions.
( True fifth gen as F-22 supposedly VLO in ALL directions. )
So yes, Rafale is a ( maybe THE ) very modern actual ( 2010??? ) and future fighter if you don’t dabble in “gens”.
Finally, to answer this, by jackjack, i found this :
http://3reglescitoyen.over-blog.com/article-cuba-achete-le-rafale-42584034.html
You may have to gooogletranslate it if your french wont do
but it is worth it, hearty laugh assured! LOL.
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