Vishnu is a very fair journo.,He can only ay what he was told by authorities.
Yves

Simplyvthat due to ROE,a plane can lose to others? Not big newsthat Typhoon isn’t a hot potato in WVR?

Btw, Revellin Falcoz stated that Rafale pure frontal RCS (i guess un loaded) is similar to that of a sparrow (source, Rafale Confidential documentary interview, findable on youtube). Afterall he as the head engineer in charge of the program. (that to answer to Vnomad saying eurocanards state a 0.1 sqm RCS)

What, a Rafale fanboy in this thread!? 🙂

This is really between the F-35, SH/Growler, and Gripen E… is Dassault going to bother participate?

Has the Finnish Air Force ever used any French a/c?

Finnish Chieff of Staff recently flew a Rafale backseat. Dassault is fairly dubious as previous RFP was for single engined jets only and finnished with F-18… (and yes fault is intentional)

What?
Something sensible like having a manned and a UCAV components of FCAS, the design leadership of the first being given to Dassault, the design leadership for the unmanned component to BAE, the propulsion to RRoyce and the systems to Thales?
Not gonna happen, too sensible…
The cynic in me is saying that if someone decides that FCAS ends up replacing part of the RAF Phoon fleet, the rest will be replaced by a future project called “let’s just buy another batch of Dave’s and be done with it”, a bit like “Scavenger” turns into “another sqn of Reapers please”.

Cheers

You know i’m a dumb optimistic Sintra 😉

Good news for Typhoon program.

Very interesting sentence from french MoD in latest Air&Cosmos summer edition.
SCAF (for France) will be composed of Rafale NG (rénové) AND a Drone.

DDM-NG have only 2 sensors and have to use fish eye effect to see around ( and there still significant part blocked by the airframe ) , DAS have 6 sensors so each sensor have to cover alot less volume of sky) , i didnt see you disagree when people on Rafale thread say they heard some unnamed pilot say DDM-NG allow track, attack enemy’s fighter, or even estimated range to a missiles
Biased much?

Noone said so. And the original article is easy to find on Defesanet. V. Riller spent two full weeks testing Rafale.

Btw no use counting modules on a mock up presented for PAS…