May 2006, n°15

Was it the RAF Jaguars? I know they got some kills……:diablo:

😀

or was it Typhoon……?

Do you know something about that ? 🙂
If it was Typhoon, at least, they didn’t dare facing our Rafales… :dev2:

Arthuro :
Just lacking some bread and sausage on the table with the red tablecloth.

LmRaptor :

what ended up with the best air-to-air kill ratio during TLP?

Maybe the USAF F-15s ? I don’t know.

Are Rafale Typhoon and Raptor heading for RF 2008?

If French pilots want to be faced to the Typhoon there, I hope they’re both heading for ! 😀

I have my beautiful Air International (June 2007) near me… I’m happy ! 😀
Now, i can sleep deeply, as i know the truth…:D

Interceptions were conducted, but I don’t know wether it was against Rafale, or in team, against the Mirage F1CR…
I think that they practised the BVR against each other, but i’m not sure, as i actually don’t have the magazine.

Some updates :
-the gun should be qualified now (end of May), with air2air and air2ground modes;
-GBU-22 first firing at the begining of June, should be qualified for this summer;
-AASM to be operational on late 2007/early 2008.
-new software for Spectra, by June, to be delivered by the end of the year.
-Rear sector Mica firing (with Link 16 datalink)
-standard F3 for mid-2008
-OSF-NG for the begining of 2009 (it won’t wait 2012 it seems)

Also : during some training between Gripen and Mirage F1CR at Reims, the Gripen have faced Rafales from St Dizier.
Gripen pilots seem to have had a hard time against the Rafale because of the Mica IR (they didn’t know what the Rafale is able to do), but also because of the high excess power of the aircraft, even heavily loaded (the Rafale is definitely better at FL30-35, whereas the Gripen is used to 60ft-10,000ft).
Gripen pilots also praised the Rafale’s sensor fusion.

The AASM is a modular weapon developed by the Sagem Defence Company (SAFRAN Group). It consists of a guidance kit and a range-extender kit which can be fitted to in service (dumb) bomb bodies. The AASM confers on these an increased range and a high degree of accuracy.

The three qualification firings […] demonstrated a range in excess of 50 km from high altitude and 15 km from very low altitude

But 15 km from low level? How far can you toss an unpowered EPW?

And what’s the glide range of an EPW from 30,000 ft? Who is going to be at ‘very low level’ anyway?

I know that the GBU-24 can glide 50km too… For example. But the quote is “in excess”… That just remember me of the >250km spec for the Scalp (wich can fly 400km).
As for the 15km in low alt (1,500ft)… We don’t really know.

That’s quite simple : Dassault has always published the “10 ton class” for the 3 variants.
For years, magazines published the good old 9,060kg.

And now that it’s all official, we have the accurate 9,500kg, 9,720kg and 10,196kg figures published by the MoD and AdA.
Dassault still stick to the “10 ton class” (for the 3 variants).