You have to love the British media. 😀

I do. Best souvenir : Decades ago, The Sun called ppl to Dover cliffs to protest against French. A famous french TV commentator called these same friends to make another step towards France :highly_amused:

Nice vid indeed 🙂
I watched Rafale at MAKS 2011 too, it was awesome.

But there is one striking difference, i don’t know if it has something to do with T/W ratio..

When we look at Su-35 or Su-29M2/35 doing display, they can do the take-off immelman and go into a crazy climb.
Or when they go into post stall/departure flight and then just point the nose straight up and go.

The Display of Rafale seems mostly to be in the 6-7 G load, hense the smooth excesive speed all around the display.
It has an impresive slow speed handeling as well, but again it never enters the Departure flight regime.
Does the delta design give an disadvantage in recovering the aircraft from departure flight?

Tis is an old demo from “Gégé”. I love his way to pilot. In fact, if you saw MAKS demo, you saw the “square dance” (sustained 9G). Pilots say during Rafale demo that they regularly go over 10g. You may like that site http://www.rafalesolodisplay.com/

Well, MICA so far cost more than Meteor, and it will be less capable at BVR ranges,
i think the best bet is 2xMeteor + 4 (current) Mica loadout.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?88940-cost-of-modern-missiles&p=1376820#post1376820

I’ll try to check numbers, those seem fairly old.

I think the smoothness is afforded by Delta Wing of Rafale/FBW combination , I have seen Mirage-2000 solo display which are very smooth.

On the contrary Mig-29 and F-16 types though pull G’s and give good display but smoothness seems lacking

Anw it was more or less a way to advertise for this video :eagerness: more then anything else

The display is one of the best Mig-29 solo display i saw in recent times this bird turns better in air with every upgrade.

I think though the fighter in question is more like Mig-29M2 then Mig-35

I do love, but compare smoothness etc.

What void?

Russia is naturally the dominating power in Eastern Europe and everything east of the German border belongs into the Russian sphere of influence. Things are just returning to their natural state when the Americans finally go away.

Dangerous words combo…

So does his settle the debate about the F-15E vs S-300/400 and Pakfa/J20 once and for all 😉

I think he thought about SE. And there we are in the core of the debate, between pure stealth planes with poor kinematics and discreete planes with excellent kinematics (considering they will have similar EW suite). Of course, both planes will have advantages and flws, will not use same mission profiles etc. Passions apart, hard to decide.
See the recently published capability of Rafale (as an example, some other planes prolly can do) to track, target and shoot over the shoulder a tango using passive sensors only. Two weeks ago it would have been a “unique F35” capability… And i dont intend to bash F35…

Can’t believe it! But the simple rejection by india should tell about eurocanrds vs Fulcrum. coma.