LOL even if it snows in banglore in april whorenet wouldn’t stand a chance. Most likely Mig-35 or Rafale.

In France, in every new articles, I can read that we’re out of the competition, it’s more Mig-35 versus Superhornet.

What could they do with 18 Rafales each.

Translation: the equivalent of a force of 36 mirage 2000D + 18 (or 36 ??? I cannot remember) Mirage 2000-5.

Does it seems more impressive now ? 😀

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/january/01_16_2.html

There was a competition ?:confused:

Personally, from what I’ve been told by reliable sources and what I’ve read between the lines. I think we are going to see very big changes in the relationship between India and the US……………Get ready for a big surprise that’s all I have to say!:D

So, India will be place at a much higher level than UK ?
Can’t wait to see that.

Thus is no terain follow with the RBE-2!

Strange, it was the main point for getting an PESA instead of a mechanical radar :rolleyes:

But this is definitly a disadvantage if the cutomer wants to integrate a lot of Us made weapons on the Rafale because it increases the overall costs in the long run.

How big would be such a disadvanatge ?
I heard it’s around 6 months and 60 milions euros for the integration for the Brimstone on the EF2000.

So, from a financial point of view, that doesn’t seem really important.

How is one pilot able to perform all the tasks at once? That is my question. How do
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and that at the same time.

SEveral months ago, on french forums, we got a link from psychologist + experts for cognitif patterns (not sure of my translation) who explained the problem to train in a totally different way pilots, for engineers to devellop the HMI etc etc
So I suppose your question are legitim.

from JWCOOK
As a consequence of this the radar can interleave different operations such as air and ground mapping. This is quite an achievement for a non-phased array system.

That’s what I had in mind when I wrote my previous post.
Have you got more information about that capability of the captor ??

I think this is very unlikely. Although Dassault stated in the past that the manufacturing rythm could jump from 1-1.5 Rafale a month to 10-13 Rafales a month at short notice. I think they would have first to sign a contract :rolleyes: then decide what to get onboard and then integrate all the specific saudi stuff (radio, weapons …) and test it, then produce it. Could easily take years.

From 1,5 rafales per months to 13, the production line would be HEAVILY upgrade.
I can’t find the statement of the CEO of DAssault in fornt of the french deputies but the “easy path” is a target of 4 or 5 planes per months IIRC.

According to Defence Analysis (p.17, Vol 8.No.12 December 2005) Dassault have called the RBE2 radar ‘fatally flawed’ alleging that its range was “inadequate” and averring that the Rafale therefore relied on AWACS support to overcome this.

Dassault is famous to be, sometimes, pretty rude with his partner 🙂
Yes, the RBE2 met lots of troubles, but now, even its range gives satisfaction.

The DGA also described Rafale’s OSF (“Optronique Secteur Frontal”) as “obsolescent” and production has been cut back to just 48 units

Let’s see it in a different way. The OSF, with amazing performance has a new generation that can be in production in few years.
The decision was to focus on that generation.

According to Defense News, Air Force Gen. Eric Rouzaud revealed that early deliveries of the Rafale were prone to a software glitch that cut out part of the flight system, requiring the pilot to hit the reset button. The fault has been fixed, Rouzaud said. 😮

For the very first serie, it seems obvious that you have quite much errors to report.

There were reports that problems with the “Central Processor” led to only three of five Rafales being delivered during 2004, and suggestions that the same problem led to a shortfall of deliveries (against the planned schedule) in 2005. :dev2:

I hope you know that the production of zero rafale during a full year has been scheduled years before ?

There have, however, been increasingly critical comments about Rafale from members of the National Assembly’s Finance and Defence Commissions, and there have been reports of disagreements between Dassault and DGA about cost increases and obsolescence.

Since the delay was a political decision, and not a technical one, Dassault asked the french gov to pay for the obsolecence.

According to Defence Analysis and Flight Daily News, the Singapore evaluation also reportedly revealed problems with Rafale’s reliability and availability

Very strange.
What a pity that this news has been written in few newspaper and these problem happened only in Singapore.

Sorry, but, how old is your source ?