I understand India's feeling of Rafle as its only hope, but the F 35 is not comparable to Gust, the F 35 greatly optimizes subsonic maneuverability, Plus F 135 engine is far from the M 88-2 can be compared, coupled with network centric warfare capabilities, only the replacement of WS15 J 20 can be compared
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Availability and Use of F-35 Fighter Aircraft: An Update
At a Glance In April 2022, the Congressional Budget Office published Availability and Use of F-35 Fighter Aircraft. That report used data through September 2021, the last month of fiscal year 2021. This update incorporates data for fiscal year 2022 and employs CBO’s recently developed approach...
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How do you see what's behind the mountain when most of your radar and anti-aircraft missiles are at the foot of the mountain? Even if a few radar stations can be built on commanding heights, the highlands need early-warning aircraft to blind low-altitude and valley areas, which India lacks
Don't you shoot China using the same trick? When China has far more multi-purpose aircraft than India
It's not at all comparable, the Rafale has "on condition" maintenance, there are never factory returns, no major overhaul visits.
Figures are for F-35s which are not in the heavy repair depot. While the Rafale figures take into account all Rafales.
We can measure the difference in the capacity to increase the production of flight hours by the fact that the USAF aims to fly the F-35 for 200 hours per year and does not manage to exceed 150 to 160 hours, while the French Air Force, which flies its 100 Rafales 250 hours per year, sold 12 Rafales to Greece and increased its Rafales to 275 hours per year, then sold 12 to Croatia and plans to increase its Rafale to 300 hours when the sale is effective.
If the Air Force was struggling to produce the flight hours it needs, would it have agreed to resell a quarter of its fleet?
There is no fighter currently in South-East Asia that can defeat Rafale in BVR. Indian Rafale is even more advance than the French one.
Only J-20 and F-35 have a chance due to stealth. But over the Himalayas, Rafale is going to prove a formidable foe to PLAAF fighters, due to its SA, cat-like agility, terrain hugging ability and weapons package. In my opinion, Rafale's aforementioned attributes combined with SPECTRA and MICA-IR is going to prove biggest PLAAF killer. It is just sad that we've only 36. At least 2 more squadrons should have been ordered by GOI way back in 2020 when Galwan happened.
We are talking a sustained surge. 15-20% of the fleet would be more realistic. You aren't this silly, I think you use what skill you do have, to cloud the issues.
hercv said that the RAAF fly much more than that annually. I asked him to repost the info.he hasn't done it yet.
Lol. Singaporean F-15SG with aim-120D's, sniper pod and its HUUUGE AESA accepts your challenge. Careful with the F-15SG EW I hear it's a doozy.
Have a chance? Boy wachu talkin bout! It's no contest Rafale is not LO fighter you need to start living in the real world and not in your delusional mind.
Lol. Did you really just post "cat-like agility" to sell the Rafafle? Bruh....
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To call the Rafale a PLAAF killer would be a stretch, just to say it has good maneuverability and EW capabilities
Rafale is just a good 4.5 generation fighter. No essential difference from J-16 and J-10C
Singapore has the F-35
India's Rafale is mainly upgraded with ground strike capability and navigation system for India
Singapore doesn't fly them yet but I totally forgot they selected the F-35. F-35 are flown/selected by so many nations that you sometimes forget they are a F-35 customer.To call the Rafale a PLAAF killer would be a stretch, just to say it has good maneuverability and EW capabilities
Rafale is just a good 4.5 generation fighter. No essential difference from J-16 and J-10C
Singapore has the F-35
India's Rafale is mainly upgraded with ground strike capability and navigation system for India
No. Rafale is indeed a PLAAF killer. There is nothing in PLAAF arsenal except J-20 that can counter Rafale + Meteor combo. J-16 and J-10C are good planes, but Rafale is just a notch ahead in BVR. In WVR, any fighter with HOBS/HMD combo is deadly.
Except RCS, Rafale is a better jet than F-35, every which way. And clean Rafale has frontal signature of 0.1m^2, i.e., -10dBsm. So, a clean Rafale is LO too. Indian Rafale has got QWIP IRST, so it becomes perfect stealth hunter with that.Singapore has the F-35
India's Rafale is mainly upgraded with ground strike capability and navigation system for India
And F-15SG? LOL. Rafale would destroy any F-15 10 out of 10 times in both BVR and WVR.
Sure. But it's still apples and oranges.
The F-35's numbers are minimum requirements from the Pentagon, the Rafale's is likely the best possible figures.
Once FOC is achieved, even the F-35 may be able to perform 5 sorties a day for a month.
Rafale's is 8-9 hours for every flight hour. The F-35's is 5 hours. The Gripen E's is 2-3 hours.
But these are numbers formulated over a long period of time. It is not to be considered literally, it's just an average.
Those are official figures from Dassault.
350 hours a month is 11.7 hours a day on average. And yes, it's possible for the Rafale to achieve it. The same is possible for both the SH B3 and F-35 (eventually) as well. It has a lot to do with the more modern airframe design.
It's among the reasons why the Rafale is considered pretty much the best operational fighter jet today. It does a lot of things other jets do not.
Don't believe this stuff, unless the French can tell you the exact angle and wavelength, it's all propaganda, you believe the Su-57 is only 0.4m³, And does the Rafale have 0.1m³？
Don't forget the Rafale is a plane from the 1980s
The best fourth - generation aircraft in my opinion is the F-15,
Let's see, maybe the Meteor missile has a better inescapable zone than the PL 15,
But does this advantage really work? Rafale radar aperture itself is small, especially in the complex electromagnetic environment of the battlefield will further compress radar performance
WVR may have a bigger advantage, after all, Refale has a good t \ w and excellent aerodynamic design
More often, the an aircraft's performance does not determine anything. When there is no generational difference between the two aircraft, the number and support systems are more important
Sources pls.....
Lol! And how is clean rafale is going to help us, by doing ISR?
You don't want a source for the 0.1 too? That's always a fun adventure. 0.1 would be the refueling probe, waving in the air.