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Rafale smashed the F14 and FA18 in dog fight. And it only need 2 turns to be in the tail of the latest. I don't know if it was 2 turns left, or right or right then left and it's not important.
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it is important, it make all the difference in the world, so does the condition such as wether it was a head-on merge, or ‘butterfly’ merge or whatever, it makes the difference between winning and losing. Delta wings do very well in a 1 circle fight but begin to bleed tremendous energy in a 2 circle turn. Deltas also usually do very well at high speeds but not so much at lower speeds. This is why I said altitude, airspeed, fuel load and any additional add-on such as external fuel tanks or weapons completely effect aircraft performance. Any aircraft can be beaten, even T-38s have HUD kills of F-22s and F-22s are in another league.
Now the T-38 is the king of all aircraft. If those T-38 pilots did this to F-22s then Rafales would do even worse.
Rafale beat all in dog fight, including EF2000. It is nearly on par with F22. AND THAT WITH ONLY 2 x 5T DRY and 7.5 T FULL PC ENGINE. It was the question of the beginning.
I hate to crash your party but one German F-4 shot down 5 Rafales in 2008. So those exercises mean little especially when important details are left out. How many other times have Rafales been killed? NATO allies do not brag about those kills to journalists for marketing like the French do.
The French are not so excited and enthusiastic to share how they lost to F-4s, they only like to brag when they win.
You mentioned the Rafale being almost on par to F-22, well on that infamous Rafale HUD with the F-22, the Rafale could not actually out turn the F-22. In 90% of the video the F-22 is not even in the HUD shot, there was only a few times the F-22 appeared in the Rafale HUD and that was because the F-22 pilot made errors and ‘reversed’. The Rafale could not even crank its nose anywhere near the F-22. There is a video of the two retired US pilots breaking down the HUD footage. 1 pilot used to fly the F-18 and his squadron fought Rafales, he now flies F-18s for Malaysia and has faced Malaysian SU-30s, the other pilot flew F-16s and F-18s. They shed a lot of light on that video and dispelled a lot of propaganda. They also confirmed what I said, the Rafale dumps tremendous energy on turns.
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