Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Austria
Saudi-Arabia (en route to Singapore)
USA
Singapore
Czech Republic (RAF deployment)
Finland (RAF deployment)
Norway
Switzerland
Cyprus
UAE
Greece
Netherlands
Sri Lanka

Belgium
France 😉

don’t remember if it has been posted here yet

F-18 vs rafale

aaaaaah active cancellation…

if it exists, it is certainly not the magic system everybody is dreaming about that would make your aircraft invisible to ennemy radar.

most probably it is a system that will work on a few radar systems, probably sam radar, or weaker radar systems like missiles one.
May be the purpose is not to remain perfectly invisible (which seems very difficult) but to disrupt the ennemy traking by making its lock unstable or unacurate.

In fact it is just another jamming tool that would be efficient when used smartly with the other jamming technics.

Rafale has now degraded to a long range bomber with a huge RCS c/o boxy RWRs and fixed probe…

So’s the fixed refuelling probe, and the boxy RWRs…..

No need to spend millions of euros bying anechoic chamber when some people can calculte RCS with their eyes 😎

By the way, the answer to my question seems to be: I have no source for my claim.

You ask me to provide sources on something that did not happen. how on earth can i do that ?
This is precisely what i’m looking for : sources proving that during the last nato exercices, the typhoon actualy showed to the rafale pilots what “second best” meant.

All I have right now, it’s french rafale pilots not that much affraid of the typhoon and her A2A superiority.

And? French posters very often claim Rafale is better than Typhoon, actually I know a French poster who claims it is the best aircraft on earth, even better than the F22.

There is a difference between a french poster lost on one forum, and Bae flooding the internet and magazines for years don’t you think.

The French basically claim Rafale won the “real” export competition each time it looses out, has Rafale actually even lost once due to something else than “evil US politics or evil British bribes”? You make me laugh.

At least, that’s a fact that on 3 of those competions the rafale was the “second best” while the typhoon was the “3rd best” 😀

I just expect to see AFM publish a letter from un unknown guy reporting about how superior the Typhoon has shown

same 😀

A MN pilot said “there isn’t many thing we can envy to the others”. The least we could say is that this declaration is not very clear, but show it is a close call I would think.

no ! no ! and no !

I don’t want a close call ! I want the typhoon to prove she is the second best (in A2A) to who you know and faaaaaaaaaaaaar superior to anything else especially the rafale. :diablo:

So all the exercises done so far mean nothing? Typhoon proved very well during the exercises it participated.

During those exercices, the typhoon proved nothing against the rafale so far.

It should make customers more cautious of showing their preferences early on in negotiations. IIRC Dassault complained of exactly the same thing in Korea, & refused to tender in Japan when it couldn’t get assurances from Japan that the competition was open.

Dassault has also quit the Danish contest for the same reason