Bharat Rakshak

Why has UAE asking for a uprated engines for Rafale , is it anything to do with hot weather out there which might result into performance loss ?? Because they were told by the US and british propaganda that the Rafale is underpowered. Then, the UAE tested the plane with heavy payloads in very hot w...

did the ground control room we saw in les chevaliers du ciel wherein fighters and inflight missiles were shown in graphical formal for real? AFAIK, 100% fake from 2:00 onward the MFDs on this E3 taking part in "operation red flag" seem able to track 100s of a/c and fired AAMs graphically ...

I'm saying in a exercise where an actual launch doesn't take place, its more advantageous to be simulating the R-27 rather than the MICA, while that may not apply in actual combat. I don't think so. 1 - The R27 needs continous target illumination from its initial point to impact : Thus the radar of...

The R-27 has a very long range and a relatively low kill probability. You can simulate the former effectively in an exercise but not the latter without an actual launch. So, you are implying that EF claimed A2A superiority over a Su-27+R27ER somehow relies on the assumption that the R27ER has a low...

The BVR exercises had an inexperienced EF crew, outranged by simulated R-27s, with a fighter than was still developing (it wasn't capable of passively employing the AMRAAM). The T3 EF with a Captor-E and Meteor/Aim-120D will be a very different bird of prey. The R27 is the basic A2A missile of any ...

"Every time the moon pulls the tide in and out, the ground under our feet actually moves by between one and two millimetres. That might not sound a lot, but given the tolerances we are working to on Typhoon, two millimetres is two millimetres too much." I wonder what happen when the user ...

Also, getting an upranged AESA in quick time doesn't help much when the primary air to air weapon i.e. Meteor isn't going to be operational until about 2015. If you think that better range is the main reason to get an AESA, you miss 80% of the advandages of such an antenna. Its a capability that ne...

Septimus, That puts the program unit cost of the Rafale at €142.27 million each. [Edit: I'm not sure what taxes are inclusive in the EF's cost but the Rafale's price is VAT inclusive. Without it, it would cost about €120 million.] Even assuming for accounting omissions in computations, its still qu...

its easier for a good a2a plane to become a effective a2g plane - f15, f16, su27 all started out as pure-play a2a. So did the Rafale. The Rafale F1 were pure A2A fighters. the rafale falls somewhere in between these two stools...a plane that does everything on the earth without being the best at an...

SaiK wrote:did they exercise against each other?

yes. 6 gunfights. 1 won by the F-22 and 5 draws according to the French Air Force.
The USAF did not confirm though. My guess is that they were annoyed by the Rafale resistance during the exercise.

Furthermore, Raffy has had a crash due to pilot disorientation caused due to g-loc. EF on the other hand has better g-suits which allow the pilot to pull 9 G turns for extended periods without g-loc. This could be life saver while dodging a missile. While pulling high G turns in the raffy, the pilo...

In a dogfight with low weapon load, I'd almost always take a Rafale over the Tiffy for the foll reasons: 1) TWR is almost the same - the EF's one clear advantage will be reduced considerably Depends on the altitude. It'll be the other way round at 40,000 feet. At 60,000 feet, the Eurofighter will b...

is forgetting that stealth is but one solution to deep penetration. The Rafale is designed for high-lo-lo, which makes it a visible target only in transit. Most modern fighters will not detect this hugging the ground : Maybe not in mountainous terrain as the picture depicts, but its utility is ques...

here's some numbers for all you kids out there debating about Tiffy vs Rafale http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/05/22/Libya_Coalition_Sorties460.jpg Nato operations in Libya by country As Taygibay said, this is a very misleading chart. It does not include the Charles de...

Every quality product has a price and you can't have it all for free I mean, 126 top notch fighter jets, last generation sensors and A2A/A2G weapons, mission preparer, training facilities, assembly line, Hi tech production and maintenance tools, source code to implement your own systems... That's mo...

The "flawless" performance of the Eurofighter Typhoon in the Libyan war has catapulted the aircraft ahead of its main rival to win one of the most lucrative of defence deals in recent times. ... But it is believed that it will be the Typhoon's performance in the Libyan conflict, where it ...

I agree with Philip and SaiK as well. The M2000 upgrade was one of the most retarded decisions that I have seen in a while. The upgrade probably could have been done for under a billion dollars with Israeli help and the $2 Billion saved could have been put into either AMCA development or provided a...

Ask for Argentina's perspective on that. Or Israel's. Argentina, a military dictatorship at the time, was fool enough to attak France closest ally ! What did they expect ? BTW, France and UK being both part of NATO, there was no way that France would have betrayed UK. Argentina simply made a major ...

With regard to the Rafale's ergonomics, shouldn't it be compared with the EF instead of the Mirage-2000 and Jaguar? Otherwise you may as well start comparing it to the Gnat and Spitfire. I was only replying to the claim that the Rafale cockpit might be too tight for Indian Pilots. And my point is :...

I think you need to see this video and then determine if the Rafale is as "roomy". Well, I've sat several times in the Rafale cockpit (both M and C versions), as well as in Mirage III, F1, 2000 (B,C,N) and Jaguar. The Rafale cockpit is, by far, the most comfortable and roomy of them all.....

It could add the restriction to IAF pilot's size and weight. I know they must be fit and agile, but not necessarily conforming to size and shape and height. Kat is a no no for khan sized fighter pilots. As the Rafale cockpit is much more roomy and comfortable than the Mirage 2000, there shouldn't b...

Must be the air over Libya. Rafales do not like it at all. Spain sh1tting bricks. Italy ................... what can you say. Hope they survive. India better reopen the MMRCA bidding. (ducking for cover.) Get those MiG- 29 35 (at least we know where they rust.) Note that it was 2 Mirage 2000. The e...