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November 11, 2009 at 12:16 am in reply to: Rafale News VII #2440278

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I do say that any such conclusion would be much more credible and even more impressive if it came from someone with more relevant experience.

This the best we have in stock for now. So, live with it.
How many times are you going to repeat the same argument ?

Everybody got your point, no need to flood the thread. :rolleyes:

November 9, 2009 at 9:28 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2440707

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in many respects it would be most interesting if an F-16MLU/F/A-18E/F/Gripen experienced pilot flew Rafale.

I desagree.

A pilot who is too used to one aircraft type philosophy is biased by his own habits and therefore will most likely judged a new aircraft with a narrow point of view if he doesn’t get the chance to fly the new type during enough time (let say at least 20 hours).

This is especially the case for pilots who used to fly multirole aircrafts with complex weapon systems like F-16C/18/15E.

November 4, 2009 at 7:17 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2443101

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Data from the flight recorder of the rafale M that crashed last month seems to indicate that the accident was due to a pilot error.

http://secretdefense.blogs.liberation.fr/defense/2009/11/accident-du-rafale-lanalyse-de-la-boite-noire-conclut-%C3%A0-un-facteur-humain.html

October 15, 2009 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Rare mirage 2000C GW1 video #2414233

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vintage Eric Serra music 😀

October 14, 2009 at 7:43 pm in reply to: 36 Dassault Rafale for Brasil – Official #2415024

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In fact, Dassault is in the uncomfortable position of relying on Swedish suppliers for some key combat systems including the Mica BVR missile datalink and the laser rangefinder in Rafale’s OSF sensor fit.

Why does that make Dassault in an unconfortable position ?
Those are MBDA and thales products with swedish parts. I doubt those subsystems can’t be ordered from an other supplier

October 8, 2009 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2433504

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In the navy, the planes/aircrew are multirole, in the air force they’re dedicated solely to the nuclear missions. It may change in the future though.

Not anymore. The nuke squadrons on Mirage 2000N also perform standard A2G strikes (both guided and unguided).

We even lost a mirage 2000N flying an A2G mission for NATO over Bosnia back in the nineties.
And the mirage 2000N is often seen in nato exercices like TLP in its conventional role.

October 7, 2009 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Rafale production/order status? #2433804

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I believe it were 6 or 7 aircraft, which delivered in LF1 configuration. Deliveries of F1 standard aircraft started in the second half of 2001. During the first deployment of the CdG 6 LF1 aircraft were onboard.

AFAIK everything delivered before the 2nd quater of 2002 is LF1 or post-LF1

October 6, 2009 at 12:08 am in reply to: Rafale production/order status? #2434421

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What is the plan as to what will happen to M2-M10?

They will be upgraded to F3. When ? no body know.

Why are they grounded and stored? Are they really of no use at all, even for training?

They are waiting their F3 upgrade. some of the F1 are already 10 years old. Keeping them in storage allows the navy to have a uniform fleet of F2 (F2 are quite different from the F1). So same training for both the pilots and mecanics. It is also a mean to average the age of the fleet by not eating too much lifetime of the F1 airframe potential

Have their OSFs been cannibalised to allow a fleet-wide fit of OSF 1 across all F2 aircraft? If not, which aircraft do use the 48 Mk 1 OSFs that were delivered?

What do you mean ? The F1 never get any OSF. The 48 OSF were delivered for the 48 F2 (which are now F3 by the way). No new OSF have been ordered for the new F3 delivered since 2008. However an OSF can be affected to any rafale, ex-F2 or newbuild F3.

October 5, 2009 at 10:32 pm in reply to: 36 Dassault Rafale for Brasil – Official #2434443

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…and Sukhoi will take the cake! 😀

not a chance :p

October 1, 2009 at 9:56 pm in reply to: Two Rafales crash #2435773

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the french aerospace community has lost one of its finest pilot 🙁

September 30, 2009 at 7:49 pm in reply to: 36 Dassault Rafale for Brasil – Official #2436293

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Just for fun.:)

:dev2:

September 24, 2009 at 8:04 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2439076

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Two French Navy Rafales crash in the Mediterrenean:

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSPAB00791820090924

Hope they will find the second pilot alive 🙁

July 8, 2009 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2436469

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July 3, 2009 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2437823

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interresting 🙂

June 25, 2009 at 8:26 pm in reply to: Rafale News VII #2440034

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In the display video, 5’22”, there is a HUD view where you can see a brief 10G peak followed by a few second at a sustained 8.5-9 G-load factor.

See the 10G indicator on the right of the HUD and the warning display at the center asking the pilot to release the stick

There are a dozen of 9 G turn in this video, but most of them are not sustained. 9G is just the peak load factor.

AFAIK, the square dance is a 4 x 90° 9G turns and it is not a visualy very imppressive part of the flight despite the fact it is very demanding for the flight control system and the pilot.
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