Rafale F3 was already capable to use both GPS/INS and laser guided bombs.
I guess it’s why everybody can read in RAIDS Aviation n°1 on page 25 that Rafale is already qualified to use the GBU-49…

and you get to be called on it.

Then place your shot carefully and save your ammo. Carpet bombing is inefficient, costly, and make no land worth living in.

So, let’s sort it out :

-Typhoon has an edge because it has a better low cost weapon (namely the PWIV, which is a highly maneuverable, inflight selectable fuse, dual mode bomb). Point agreed. No need to discuss this. Of course AASM can do the same, at much greater range and reduced reaction time, no problem, it’s also way more expensive.
-PWIV better than GBU-49 ? Point agreed, a bit more expensive, a bit better.
-Rafale is better in A2G overall. Point agreed.

About 500kg bombs being less useful, one should reconsider his opinion : France lacked this during the libyan war.

So, what’s the problem, exactly ?

Seriously, TMor?

Yes.

But hey, if I “Provoked” then someone obviously took the bait.

Exact.

EELightning have provocated some off topic answers

Strangely ironic coming from you.

Saying so is not enough.

Let’s move on. What else on the Eurofighter side ? (and only Eurofighter ?)

That the NL never conducted any evaluation of the aircraft in form of flight trials is true however

Yves Robins :

As a result, the Dutch were only able to assess the F-35 on paper. However, a Dutch Air Force contingent came to Dassault to undertake a comprehensive in-flight evaluation of the Rafale. They flew several missions to assess for themselves how the Rafale handled.

In 2010, Canada parliament :
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4765987&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3%23Int-3473476#Int-3474371

Obviously, at that time it was not possible to make an in-flight evaluation of the F-35, so the evaluation was made from the paper information provided by the manufacturer to the Dutch air force, whereas the Dutch air force went on the spot to where the other aircraft were manufactured and performed an in-flight evaluation of those aircraft. That in-flight evaluation was a pretty comprehensive one. It involved several flights addressing several types of operational concerns. They made their evaluation and they came back with their conclusions, and the result of that evaluation was published in the Dutch press.

I plan on writing such an article on my forum, but it’s time consuming and I can’t do it right now.

@Scorpion82 :

http://typhoon.starstreak.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1610#p11627

Is this opening post up-to-date ?