one emirati M2K down in Yemen. Both pilots dead.

Reading your rants about the F-35 is like talking to a political nut. Everything is a conspiracy. Everyone was bribed. You have no evidence at all and yet you are completely convinced.

Starategically speaking ( and i’m not specifically ralking about F-XX) Its been twice the rokaf rejected the winner of a competition due to Washington political pressures…

It costs money, and contrary to what people around here spend all their time obsessing over, dogfighting is only a small part of what fighters do. Most Eurofighter operators are more interested in putting their limited resources toward more fully developing a multi-role capability, integrating new weapons, an AESA, etc.

i’d say air force is concentrating on not so sexy but useful updates. After first day or trilat exercise, Rafale pilots had to change their tactitcs vs Typhoon (improvements of Captor and better use of HMDS)….

Pretty sure its an RDY-2. The RDY-3 is a scaled down variant for smaller aircraft, if I’m not mistaken.

bit complicated denomination (RDY3) due to history. Lets say 2000-I have an upgraded RDY2 with good A2G capabilities

This is my take, obviously. That’s true. But tell me, Hallow, what’s your? Argue instead of biting.

sorry about biting. Was tired.

https://youtu.be/D0ykd-97VtE (Rafale Demo at Le Bourget 2013)

at 7’55 or so, pilot (Cpt Planche alias Tao) states 9 to 10.5g for more than 15 secs (at to oyher moments he says 10g for square dance andanother manoeuver)

Yes, the high G turns are usually done with the plane turning away from the crowd. Here the pilot is talking about two dedication turns. In one case he was pulling 9G through the turn, and in second case he was pulling 9,5G`s.

I guess thats why some planes regularly hit 10.5/11 g in air shows…

Btw at a moment presentator says “pilot will be in the bubble. I suppose he is talking about electronics but…