It is sad but so true, that the only advantage the Typhoon fans can claim for this aircraft, seems to be the integration of an US made and designed weapon.

Well even if you are lacking any basic sense of reality…I would remind that :

1) A&C state that they are far from beginner (re-read the report on previous page)
2) all pilots looks way too old to be rookies. I have the original picture no doubt possible.

everything put together and there is not a single doubt remaining as far as pilot experience is concerned.

next answer for latter

Too bad you do not seem to read the magazine to which this forum belongs. Otherwise you would know about a pilot who earned the nickname SLAM – Struck Lybia after MQT. (MQT= Mission qualification training at the operational squadron – around 10 flights)

What is a rookie? I know a 35 year old pilot who is just learning to fly the EF. Pilots learning to handle a frontline fighter take different steps in learning to fly it. They start with basic flying, then BFM, basic air-to-ground and some countries even do advanced tactics in the OCU course.

I think you need to understand that Air Forces fly DACT for their pilots to learn and not for some fanboys to boast the superiority of the plane they are flying. It does not matter if they win, it matters that they understand why they lost. DACT is not a test for the pilot, it is an exercise to learn and improve their skills. DACT in which your pilots win every fight with ease are pointless.

Still rafales had to illuminate the target until impact which prevent from making a break to avoid an incoming missile. Moreover the 2 rafales could only fire one missile at a time (2 missiles in total) against 4 typhoons with their full multi-target capability. Normally a single Typhoon should have been well enough.

Rafale can not illuminate a target. Which makes the whole process “interesting”, as the RWR of the Tiffies would never notice that the illumination started (radar mode switch to illumination can not happen).

There are pilots on the Typhoon force who have the backgrounds described, and lots of Jag and Harrier pilots who have never had an aircraft with a radar, but I have never heard that the ex-F3 Nav, nor the ex C-130 Loadie were involved in the Solenzara exercise.

Even if true, it paints a good picture of Typhoon capabilities. I mean the Rafales were simulating a third generation threat and owned the Typhoon at will. So we must conclude that Typhoon pilots need to absolute Top Guns to beat a 3rd generation enemy. I would buy that.

He left out bits like “it weren’t the only encounters between the two types at Aldhafra” or that “the RAF jocks were young sports still growing on the Typhoon”. These are important facts which put those claims in a different perspective. I don’t think that anyone with a sane mind considers the Rafale as a bad fighter or the Typhoon as unbeatable. The Swiss evaluation reflected the situation at that time, both aircraft moved on since. Typhoon’s capabilities in various fields have grown, be it sensor fusion, PIRATE capabilities, maturity of the helmet, capabilities of DASS and the related mission data for both DASS and Captor play a role as well. Considering claims of vast superiority wrt “superior MMI, ID capabilities or even SA” the evaluation put a damper at such claims put forward by many Rafale fans, many of those claims were and still are equally unsubstantiated as those you have criticized coming from the other side.

Still the Swiss came to the conclusion, that even an up-graded Typhoon could not close the capability gap to the Rafale. :dev2:

Brazil FX2: Rafale
Indian Helo: Ch-47
Indian Transport: C-295
Indian SARS: do not care
Malaysian MMRCA: Rafale
Swiss AF: Rafale
Korean FX: F-35