Rafale DH/EH of Indian Air Force : News and Discussions
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But the ejection sequence was controlled by French software AND the person who got ejected was also a French.a british made seat....
Indeed, it's not like the same British seat isn't operating successfully on countless other aircraft. Here's your problem:
"Helmet that flies away"
Too big-headed.
Yes, that's why the lives and the plane were saved.
I don't know for Indian Rafale if it is part of ISE, but for French F3R It's not. It was planned to be part of F3R to upgrade SPECTRA Antenna, It would have saved Space and then we would have added more electronic to make the processing faster. But they have found a new approach to accelerate the processing which cost less, so the GaN antenna were posponed later. It is part of F4 now.
However, if one takes a look, the front antenna of the fin "plank" part of Spectra is different from indian Rafale to F3-R.
There will be no delay in supply of Rafale jets to India: France
There will be no delay in delivery of 36 Rafale jets to India as the timeline finalised for the supply of the fighter jets will be strictly respected, French Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain has said.
Rafale Marine equipped with the NARANG flight refueling nacelle (New Generation Refueling cradle)
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Can we have specifications of this refueling pod.
Rafale Marine equipped with the NARANG flight refueling nacelle (New Generation Refueling cradle)
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Compared to similar systems previously used by the French Navy, NARANG provides more extensive capabilities. Firstly, it allows faster refueling operations, thanks to a greater flow of kerosene. In addition, it is equipped with self-testing and failure detection systems. This enables maintenance teams to detect and deal with malfunctions more quickly, thus increasing equipment availability.
Thus equipped, a Rafale Marine in "nanny" configuration can deliver nearly 2 tons of fuel to 400 nautical miles (740 km) from the aircraft carrier, with a flow rate of 530 liters per minute at the maximum speed of Mach 0.99. In comparison, its predecessor the Dassault Super-Etendard could, at the same distance from the aircraft carrier, deliver only 500 kg with a flow rate of 375 litres per minute.
@Picdelamirand-oil what the true range of RBE2-AA Aesa say against 1m2 target ? and how good is meteor third party target engagement capability compare to AIM 120 ?
It is very hard to give a performance for an AESA radar, because the main characteristic of such a radar is the versality of all its technical characteristics. This means that it can adapt in real time to optimize its performance according to the conditions of the moment.
For example, it will do a time management: it will update all known tracks by going from one to the other directly without scanning all the space, and then it will use the remaining time to search for new tracks in the sector assigned to it.
When it updates the known tracks it will send for each track just the energy it needs to detect it in order to be as discrete as possible, and for the same reasons this energy will be spread out in time (the return will be compressed) and frequencies (the radar receiver will be able to reconstruct the signal).
After in search mode there is no reason to favour one direction rather than another and the energy sent will be more or less constant.
All that to say that in search mode for a sector in azimuth from -70° to +70° and a sector in site from - 60° to + 60° the range of detection on a target of 1m2 is 160 km. But on US plane generally the performance is given for -60° to +60° in azimuth and -14° to +14° in site! So they're sending more energy in each direction on average.
But once a target has been detected, the Radar will process it in known track update mode and adapt the energy it needs to be sent to detect it again. For example, if an F-35 opens its weapons bay doors to fire a missile, and is therefore detected by the Rafale, then even if it closes its weapons bay doors the Radar will still be able to detect it.
The same approach allows to search in a direction where one has a passive detection (so usually without knowing the distance) and the radar has a mode where it leads by increasing the energy in the direction of the passive signal until it has a detection itself.
So it's quite difficult to really talk about its performance.
There are no official figures for the Meteor engagement capability , but it has been officially said that the METEOR's non escape zone is 3 times larger than that of its best competitor.
3 time larger than AIM 120D ? and Won't BVRAAM launch posture and flight conditions at time of launch affects its real time NEZ ?