And why has this Rafale M no Sawtooth?

Because the pic is bad (blur).

KKMP57P, i’m happy for you to see that nobody tells you that you’re blinded by nationalism.
Please, this isn’t a topic about Rafale.

The RCS issue with all three types matters little in the real world! As all would require external tanks and stores during a typical mission. Which, is like hanging a bell around of the neck of a predator during the hunt!:eek:

I wouldn’t be so sure of it.

Rafale flies very low profile missions. From above, it IS very hard to detect. It’s a fact, and an example.

KKM57P : Richardson quotes are fully irrelevant. It clearly countedicts with other sources (and certainly not less credible). That’s all.

If the Rafale so good. Why not sell them?!

Uh hu ! 😀 How to start a flame, chapter one.

Why need the Rafale this “re-entrant triangles patchwork”?

Why Typhoon didn’t need it ? Less stringent requirements. The sawtooth comes as an additional features to better improve RCS. Do not twist the facts.

MAC Rafale -5% MAC Typhoon = -35%

What ?
That’s interesting, but what is it ?
I quoted the -45% MAC center of gravity position (unveiled some months ago) for Rafale some time ago, but what is your “5% MAC” ?

Regarding to Eurofigter : Several factors help minimise RCS.
It,s a small aircraft, Rafale too and much of its profile is rounded Rafale too, in a much higher and visible amount. The mean straigt areas, such as the wing, canard and fin leading edges, are highly swept, so will reflect radar energy well away from the front sector. Extensiv use in low electrical conductivity CFK, this suppresse traveling waves.Rafale too The electrical conductivity of CFK is low. Therfore Radar energy arriving a CFK structure has a hard job setting up the electrical an magnetic currents which reradiate the energy. Do you think Dassault boys were so bad, while they received stringent stealth requirements ? The most obivious is the “smiling air intake” and hiden first compressor stage. This has less drag and less RCS. less than what ? Some external weapons are mounted semi-recessed into the aircraft, partially shielding these missiles from incoming radar waves. No tail and higher sweep angle as the Su-35, what is stealthier?

SU-35 and Rafale has no semi-recessed weaponstations. LoL In terms of drag ok.
SU-35 no S-Intake.
The always inclined Rafale Canards (short coupled) are not really good for a low RCS. Doug Richerdson write that the Typhoon has the better RCS.

My two cents this guy didn’t even met Dassault boys.

Back to the conversation, I guess Typhoon has a much lower RCS than Su-35…

Now I am willing to double the figure. 😉

It is a pity if AdlA doesn’t use the AASM on the Mirage 2kD/N. A loadout of 6 AASM + 2 2000k tanks + 2 Mica IR would ne quite impressive!

Do you realize that it’s what Rafale was designed for ? 😀 😉

but Dassault asks potential customers to pay for them.

And sometimes offers them the technology transfer (AESA for example, Korea Singapore).

Why upgrading the Jaguars, while the Mirage F1 was going to share the job ? And later the Mirage 2000N/D (especially the D).

In France, because the Jaguar never received upgraded engines, it was called the plane wich takes off because Earth is round.:D

The Jaguar E was the training variant. This may explain why it never received all the capabilities of the A variant… ?