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  • in reply to: Rafale News X #2399287
    TMor
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    Thanks. It shows that Rafale International can communicate in different languages !

    in reply to: Rafale News X #2400148
    TMor
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    There had been a http://www.rafale.co.kr and a http://www.rafale.com.sg

    There are :
    http://www.rafale.com.br/

    http://www.rafale-schweiz.ch/

    I thought there was one for Greece, and I don’t know for India…

    in reply to: Rafale News X #2401322
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    What’s new ?:confused:

    Already commented here :
    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1637797&postcount=990
    in the usual thread.

    in reply to: Rafale News X #2402497
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    So, we’re going to see pictures of Rafale flying over Afghanistan with AASM/GBU’s, Damocles, and RecoNG ? 🙂

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2405050
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    does anybody know what is included in that price?

    :confused:

    Some equipments may be more expensive than in previous batch. For example : radar AESA instead of PESA, M88-4E instead of M88-2E4… But still, we can’t conclude at all. However, it looks consistant with some unit cost found on official sources like senat.fr or assemblĂ©e nationale.fr…

    MOD EDIT: Time for a new thread, folks!

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2409228
    TMor
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    And with a drop tank too…

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2409533
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    I guess it’s similar to what happened here :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXRPH9PVjM

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2411168
    TMor
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    But now really?:)

    We never know what is included…

    In 2006, there was a figure available, 35,000 € per hour for the Rafale M, but it was to decrease with time.
    The target cost is 13% higher than the Mirage’s (which is considered as good since Rafale is a twin engine).
    Edelstenne (Dassault CEO) was quoted by the Assemblée Nationale saying that the MCO should cost 12,000 € per flight hour.

    in reply to: Mirage 2000 in 2010 #2420475
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    Dassault did it once Remember the Mirage 4000 or THE SUPER MIRAGE whatever that means ..

    Yes, and you’re talking about it WAY TOO FAST to get it right. Whatever, it’s another story.

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2422894
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    There’s nothing funny.
    I perfectly know your source and I perfectly understand the purpose of the sentence you quote. You don’t, and if you were a bit more open minded, you would.
    It’s DASSAULT THEMSELVES who talk about DRAAMA.

    Fox Three n°8 was published before Singapore announced the winner. At the time, Rafale was in competition, and if it had been the winner, the plan would have been to deliver the AESA ASAP, possibly not as sophisticated as it will be in 2012/2013.

    The “simple” replacement of the transmitter and antenna was already demonstrating at will in 2003 with the DRAA demonstrator using Raython’s modules.
    If the job was only limited to what Dassault claimed in 2005 so as to seduce the Singaporeans, then how is it that Thales needed as much as 7 additionnal years and at least €200 millions to complete the work ? With european modules already available for Spectra ?

    Jackjack, you’ve missed all the litterature since then. RBE-2 AESA isn’t a “simple” hardware replacement kit.

    Tell me more about the interest of DRAAMA.

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2422900
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    i think its GaN TRM that makes 50% more output at given input over Si TRMs
    This have nothing to do with the older PESA range, due to its not solid state Si.

    Thales claims a 50% range increase from PESA to AESA (AsGa). That’s all.

    He have presented some sources and all

    A source claiming that the hardware work is minimal.
    An hypothesis (“old pesa backend, nothing new”) based on a wrong interpretation of the source and which ignores many other informations as those we provide him with.
    THUS, a flawed conclusion.

    His only real edge is that Thales don’t care about his opinion, and don’t provide us with information that the public is not supposed to know about. So, he can invent everything he wants, because we won’t always be able to prove him wrong with a Thales brochure saying “RBE-2 AESA is multi-beam capable”.

    F/A-18E is a good fighter, but not as advanced as Rafale. That’s my conclusion. Why ?
    Look at Boeing website : they never wrote SH is “omnirole”. You can’t counter my claim.

    He’s doing the same from the begining. Remember the story of Spectra’s arrays… He has been implacably incredulous only because of of his prejudices, and even with 3 sources to prove him wrong he still had difficulties to accept he was wrong.

    What should we hope then, if he build his argument where information is void ?

    If people start intentionally to bring lies and all here in their argumentations, like they are used to do on SP (where some people seems to know more about the test results of Mica than MBDA employees for example), what are we supposed to do ?

    Ignore them ? And let the readers think they are true because no one counterdicts them ?

    I could also add that the SH’s canopy, if open, doesn’t protect the cockpit from water. Prove me wrong. I’ve a source to prove that the Rafale’s canopy does prevent water to enter the cockpit even when opened.
    (don’t waste your time, I don’t think what I wrote in italic, it’s just for the example).

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2423062
    TMor
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    It was initially said 40% greater than RBE2 for the new RBE2 AA which would be around 180 km

    Sometimes we read 50% greater, sometimes it’s 40 to 60%… it depends on the author’s mood and something else…:D

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2423119
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    no, you have me wrong, this point is that the aesa antenna is put on the old backend of the RBE2
    if the rbe2 backend was a modern full function, it would be great
    the modes and function of the rbe2 is another issue and fall short of the apg-79, i gave the simple thing of single and multibeam, bandwidth and jamming, but that just the start of it
    i dont think they have read what the apg-79 will do

    I didn’t imply that you invented the quote.

    Fact is that, Jackjack, you dismiss plenty of things.

    In 2004, the DRAAMA project was intended to make a radar with european modules instead of Raython’s, and to develop ADVANCED MODES !

    The PESA codes have been re-written and/or improved to cope with the additionnal capabilities, in addition, hardware keep improving too. We don’t know what’s included in the ‘advanced’ modes. They are on contract at least since 2004, while Thales/Dassault are working on ESA (and thus AESA) since the 90s. Do you think Thales needed 6 years to make only an hardware replacement kit ? (while a such already existed in 2003)

    Personal attack on another member removed by moderator

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2423228
    TMor
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    We know nothing about the subject, and you’re the one pretending otherwise.

    The part you quote doesn’t help your point.

    Leave, please. We don’t have much time to loose trying to argue against your inventions.

    in reply to: Rafale News IX #2423232
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    they simply stuck an aesa antenna on the old rbe2 backend and tidied it up a bit

    If it was all they did, the DRAA would have been enough. Instead, there have been the DRAAMA.

    Jackjack, I have yet to see what you bring to the debate which is interesting, or true. On the other hand, you’re the kind of people who keep posting useless messages only to question our knowledge and pretentions.

    Please, leave this topic, and talk about whatever you want, but not about Rafale since you’re only capable to “import” the SP idiots’ opinions.

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