PS, Kfeltenberger, the Typhoon canopy opens upwards.
Hmm…I thought I had seen a pic where it hinged on the left side. Oh well, I’ve been wrong before, wrong now, and probably wrong sometime in the future. 😀
Iranian F-14 was downed by Mirage F1EQ. Israeli F-15 was downed by a MiG-21MF. (In the latter case th emissile did not have enough explosive power to destroy the Eagle and the croppled aircraft made it back to base and landed safely)
Then the Israeli F-15 really wasn’t downed, now was it? 😀
Thanks for all the answers! I’m was talking with some friends about the Rafale, and this was one of the deficiencies that we came up with. My original thought was that MBDA would modify the MICA into an ARM, but your input has pointed me in a different direction.