rafale demo video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctMM4zqO9a4

🙂 🙂 🙂
great! I was waiting this one like sealordlawrence, scorpion82 Tmor and others!!

another informative pdf about AASM capabilities.
you can learn that AASM range when fired at high altitude is 75km! and that it works fine for SEAD missions working with SPECTRA

http://dada4.free.fr/Dual-use%20missile.pdf

+1, I read the same thing, I bought it today. as Tmor said it is translated in english. You should afford one if you can. very informative;

some others…

Le premier album – intitulé : Présentation Alpha – se déroule pendant le meeting international de Jakarta. Tom Nolane doit y présenter le Rafale afin que Dassault Aviation puisse remporter un important marché à l’export. Mais lui et sa partenaire sont confrontés à un adversaire sans aucun scrupule, qui tentera de saboter, puis d’abattre le Rafale en vol, pour écarter la France du marché du siècle.

Arf!:D too funny….décidément la corée et singapoure sont restés en travers de la gorge de dassault:D

the scenario is basically a plot to destroy a rafale during an international airshow at jakarta in order to make the rafale loose the competition…This must have been inspired by dassault’s folks…!:D looool
So now they can “exorcize”? singapore and korea!

ok!

now some nice pics!

Do you now that rafale has its own comics now:D !

And AASM is a waste of money, replicating existing capabilities (JDAM, Spice) with a lag of 10+ years, when in the meanwhile new toys like SDB II are already on the way.

Distiller, AASM is like no existing weapon, and it is far more lethal than JDAM and SDBs. It also offer a greater tactical opportunities due to its booster and high manoevrability. (you don’t need to rely only on your own kinetics :altitude and speed)

thanks to its booster it can be fire at six different targets almost simultaneously with 90 degrees offboresigth capabilities (unique capability), desired angle of attack for optimum penetration (unique I think for this kind of weapon), and 50km+ range from altitude and 15km from low alt (which is unique due to its booster).

Sagem Defence Security:

Successful AASM firing
Paris, May 28, 2007

On April 23, 2007, the DGA (General Delegation for Armament ) carried out the first ‘full firing’ (‘Tir Global’) of the AASM. This firing was carried out by an Air Force Rafale pilot.

The mission connected several firings at widely dispersed independent targets, including one at an ‘off boresight’ target, and also included the firing of one salvo of three AASMs. All of the targets were hit with the expected precision and the Rafale’s OSF (Optronique Secteur Frontal) allowed the pilot to view the impacts in real time and to present video of the firings at the debriefing.

The AASM is a modular weapon developed by the Sagem Defence Company (SAFRAN Group). It consists of a guidance kit and a range-extender kit which can be fitted to in service (dumb) bomb bodies. The AASM confers on these an increased range and a high degree of accuracy.

The three qualification firings of the AASM already carried out by a Mirage 2000N demonstrated a range in excess of 50 km from high altitude and 15 km from very low altitude with higher impact velocity and accuracy than required in the specifications. This full firing of AASM from Rafale represents the first multi-target air-to-ground of its kind carried out in Europe. Without equivalent in the world, the AASM brings new air-to-ground capabilities to the forces.

‘Full Firing’ (Tir Global) is the official term used to indicate a firing under operational conditions of several series AASMs from a series production, service configuration Rafale.

from jackoniko translation.
http://www.sagem-ds.com/fra/site.php?spage=03010710