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  1. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    I will not elaborate on my statement as I have written enough on the subject in the past. The very comprehensive IAF assessment should be more than sufficient to underpin the superiority of the two European designs vs the Super and the F-16IN. Both Rafale and Typhoon submitted their AESA radar...
  2. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Clearly not designed for stealth! But stealth was not required in the MMRCA project IAF will get its first stealthy fighter (FGFA/PAK FA) well ahead of France
  3. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    You would find that Rafale stands head and shoulders above those jets. No surprise, really. The two fighters shortlisted by the IAF were undoubtedly the best of the pack from a technical-operational point of view.
  4. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Please do not look at long-range issues of strategic importance through some short-sighted filters such as some events of today or of yesterday that in few years will appear as rather modest or insignificant. The nations I referred to are likely to co-operate both for military reasons (need to...
  5. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Future strike platforms will be unmanned. That´s an easy call. JSF? Too little, too late and against the trend. Nuclear strike platforms will still require two crew members. The next generation European fighter to replace Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen will be a manned platform, as air combat is...
  6. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Your English looks like one of those Google translations which are convoluted and very hard to follow (see Armand posting on Ueli Maurer just above!) If you stated that the RAND study, which quotes the DERA operational analysis results, is a piece of propaganda you might find some followers to...
  7. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    My educated guess is that Rafale and Typhoon sport pretty similar RCS figures (I do not think I have ever stated anything different from this). I would not get overexcited on this or that difference in designs. The main aim of LO design is to reduce the range at which you are detected. To bring...
  8. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    No blame to the Yanks! (BTW a Russian is a European...I meant of course the Soviet academician that solved the stealth equation in the 1960s and whose learned paper handed up one day on the desk of Oberosler at Skunk Works...and eureka! They had the computing power to solve those complex...
  9. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    As I stated sometime before, it is not yet been declared a criminal act or a felony to be a Typhoon fan. And there is nothing unfortunate in that. And yes at time one goes into A/B, because some of the postings are, let´s say, sub-standard. The question of survivability of a fighter--rather...
  10. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Most of the fundamentals of supersonic aerodynamic design, the jet engine, the radar, the first rocket engines, the first RAM (for German subs in WWII BTW) come from Europe as from Europe comes the mathematical foundations to solve the design for stealth. Even the chief designer and boss at...
  11. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    The Super Hornet aka Super Slow takes an eternity to accelerate to supersonic speed with the afterburners lit. It will supercruise only if you add to it a couple of huge rocket boosters. That thing is a brick! I was quite surprised to learn from the Swiss leaked evaluation report (WHAT A...
  12. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    And when a top US delegation was shown it they had a fit as it resembled their Have Blue black project, which eventually became the F-117. Paranoid reactions on the US side I was told. You may guess what happened to the Lampyridiae project. Destroyed. Not the scientists and designers...
  13. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Please do not contaminate an Indian forum devoted to the MMRCA with your frigging European economic debate. There are zillions of fora where you can talk forever around these problems.
  14. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    THE SWISS SAGA CONTINUES...WHAT A MESS!!! WHAT A SHAME!!! Switzerland open to offers on Gripen jet deal Reuters, Switzerland Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:23am EST * Defence minister says Gripen "satifactory" * No concrete rival offers to Gripen so far Feb 14 (Reuters) - Switzerland would consider...
  15. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    When one side enjoys air supremacy over the other there is no air combat at all. There are some initial attacks which are wiped out and then the losing side simply try to save its assets (hiding them, flying them to third countries). In fact up to date there has been very little BVR combat...
  16. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    As long as they have all the data necessary to perform the computer simulations--and they had high quality data--they do not need to go close to the metal. You and your acolyte obviously have no idea what operational analysis is all about or for that matter computer simulations. If you had...
  17. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    DERA is a highly respected scientific institute of the UK MoD. The RAND Corporation report is defined to the level of disclosure allowed, i.e. not generous as one can imagine given the nature of the subject.
  18. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    The operational analyses conducted by DERA simulated hundreds of air combats starting from a BVR and in many cases (depending on initial formation numbers and survivals) coming to a merge and ending in WVR. The data input is the correct design data of the fighters represented in terms of mass...
  19. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    France or any other exporter might elect to charge a royalty fee to recoup some of the R&D expenses. The debate on the total system price is therefore of little interest in India. Export buyers do now care about the sunken R&D costs, how they have escalated against the initial budget and all...
  20. vanadium

    Know Your 'Rafale'

    Who has leaked the document? French secret service? It is gonna be hot tomorrow morning in Bern... One thing is certain: the Swiss handling of the fighter evaluation has been abysmal and probably one of the worst I have ever seen. A true scandal! I am absolutely appalled.
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