Who wins in a fight (BVR and dogfight)? F-18 or Mirage-2000?

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Quite naturally the F-18!

I don’t know if anyone recalls, but during the Franco-Spanish war of 1999, EF-18’s were caught in a brief air skirmish with L’armee del’air Mirage 2000-5’s over the independent Kingdom of Basque. The two EF-18’s manage to shoot down 10 Mirages using their Meteor BVRAAM, however there was one surviving Mirage 2000. One of the EF-18 happened to still be carrying his fuel tank, and he flew over the Mirage 2000 and jettison his tank ontop of the Mirage, sending it down over the Caucasus mountains. Because of this, the Spanish Army and Armada gained significant aerial coverage and managed to absorbe Basqueland into their country.

Hi JW, SteveO and all you Typhoonettes (aka. Lost Souls) :diablo:

I hope the attachment is legible.
A minor correction is necessary. If you look at that part of the table that depicts the laser guided bombs you´ll see that five 400kg bombs can be carrried. Those five hardpoints can also carry 1000kg bombs or SCALPs ie. five*1000kg bombs or five SCALPs.

“the currently non existant A2G capabilities of the Rafale and Typhoon who only hold “potential”
F18, you´re a silly little hamburger, aren’t you?
What they cannot yet do is transmit course correction and target updates to GPS and INS steered weapons. They cannot yet accept target handoffs from other platforms. Most other planes also cannot do any of this yet. This notion that both planes are completely incapable of dropping anything is ludicrous. Both aircraft, Typhoon and Rafale can take off right now and go drop bombs. Accurately. All the standard HUD targetting modes are already programmed. I could, for example, load a couple of Mk 84s onto my Rafale, load your coordinates into the autopilot and visit you. Steve and JW can do pretty much the same thing with a Typhoon( I don’t know who’ll fly and who will be WSO). Obviously I can do it more elegantly 😀

Can the Rafale really use AMRAAM? It’s as questionable as the Eurofighter using Mica.

My friend, you are the French version of JWcook
because of that, you two deserve a little hamburger

Hows it scored??, thats easy just put 100% in one box and compute, and this will give you the weighting for each aircraft.

And did you know that if you add a few letters and take a few letters away from ‘Hamburger’ is a perfect anagram of ‘Greasy bun’ 🙂 .

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and what are these “weights” based off of? the currently non existant A2G capabilities of the Rafale and Typhoon who only hold “potential” :confused:

as for Hamburger you can take a few letters away and add a few letters to get “go hump a dog”

OK I’ll bite!!

see http://www.eurofighter.starstreak.net/Eurofighter/tech.html see National Evaluation and evaluate them yourself….

Take a browse round the site, and compare!!!, oh and read the caveats first!! 😀 :diablo:

Cheers

Oh come now, this national evaluation thing is based on an excel sheet program you made years earlier. No matter how many times one adjusts what he/she needs, it will more likely than not, be in favor of the Typhoon!

if everything is set to 100%
Typhoon = 100%
Rafale = 98%

However if everything is set to 0%, except A2G left at 100%
Rafale = 100%
Typhoon = 99%

I’d like to see how one derived the formula for this :rolleyes:

Would it be benefitial for carrier take off, if the MiG-29K adopted these engines

Hello Delta, your airline sucks major peanuts.