I’m not sure I have seen the specs of the Rafale offered to India. It would be at least the same as for Brasil… Thus, possibly the most expensive fighter ever:D

I’m quite sure Gripen made it to the podium.:D

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/could-this-be-mmrca-ranking.html

Among the six options was one that reflected in precise terms a ranking that was conveyed to select journalists at Aero India by Indian Air Force officers, who of course asked not be named.

The three plausible options allowed by the news today were :

Since one of the three is true, and since Gripen was ranked third in two of those three options, you know what I mean.

In addition, my hypothesis is supported by my favourite of the three (for personal reasons I won’t disclose :D).

Spectra EW is a bit obsolete in its current form,

Ah ? 😮
Interesting, go on.

but those long range SAM’s aren’t that hard to dodge with a decent MAWS

Ah ?
Interesting, go on.

@TMor,
at least we have the MoD’s confirmation of this see the link above.

And here:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=1929A33D-5056-A318-A8D23B7C0AB45945

No problem. I’m not questioning the veracity of this event. I just wanted to look at the configuration, and see pictures of armed Typhoons… 😮

I just refuse to accept a couple of seemingly very biased articles be stone cold truth of this fact.

A&C is the only “biased” magazine in France which found sources to counter our pilot’s initial claims about Rafale vs F-22.
I guess they would have been happy to do the same about the Typhoon vs Rafale story.

This story of gunfights between Rafale and Typhoon was initially revealed in AFM by our Lt Col Granclaudon, a 1/7 pilot known to be the leader of the first Red Flag Rafale deployment, just before they met with the Typhoon in Corsica.

The article by A&C reiterates the same story, with more details.

In time more reliable and impartial information will be reveiled which will confirm or deny what people on here state but at the moment we just don’t know, and as I stated for me those articles are not valid proof for me!

On one hand, it’s all normal to meet scepticism when one side claims superiority.
On the other hand, we (French) have the chance to have those data claimed officially by a named pilot, heard and reported by several sources, at several moments, while other sides had to rely on anonymous so called of self claimed “specialists” and “pilots” who didn’t miss a single opportunity to bash Rafale and prove their product superior purely on theoretic basis.
😎

@eagle1, cheers for the link, but as redreidy pointed out, French publication, no actual quotes, so I’ll take it with a pinch of salt, too. Even if it was official, I’d like to know the ROE, I doubt it’d be such a one-sided result without them.

The RoE ? What was this ?

The 2 planes take off, then meet up at 18 000 ft to start the exercise. The aircraft are flying on the same trajectory with about 2 km of lateral separation. “Turn Away” with this announcement, the pilots turn 45 ° outward, to move away from each other. A few seconds later, the “turn in” and the planes turn toward each other to meet face-to-face in the sky. Once both aircraft is within visual range , its the ultimate ad: “Fight’s on!”.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1730764&postcount=711

Rafale is a better jet than Typhoon.

The less we will read this kind of claim, the better the forum will be. Thanks.