Rafale beats F-35 & F-22 in Flight International
By stephen trimple on 9 November, 2009 in Uncategorized
Flight International test pilot — and former Red Arrows team leader — Peter Collins (above right) gives the Dassault Rafale a ringing endorsement in this week’s magazine. “If I had to gointo combat, on any mission, against anyone, I would, without question,choose the Rafale,” Collins concludes in his six-page flight test report published in our Dubai Air Show preview issue.
Read the full article here. Collins’ report is timely because the Rafale appears to be nearing the end of a two-decade-old search for an export customer. If all goes perfectly well for Dassault, Brazil, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates could all be signed up as customers by the end of November (although that’s still a big ‘if’.)
If you want to cut to the chase, here’s is the text from the last page of the excellent report.
It is worth remembering that stealth-optimised, or fifth-generation fighters such as the Lockheed F-22 Raptor and [url=http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/lockheed martin f-35.html]F-35 Joint Strike Fighter[/url]are not only likely to be hugely expensive, but they can only preservetheir stealth characteristics by carrying a very limited weapons loadin their internal weapon bays.
Therefore, in the current andpredicted financial defence climate, it could well be that so-calledfourth-generation fighters will remain the aircraft of choice for mostnations – perhaps even including the UK.
Moreover, the factthat the Rafale is the only European fighter in production that iscarrier-capable gives it, in my opinion, a distinct advantage in anyfuture export “fly-off” competition as a single combat type that canequip a country’s air force and naval air arm.
In answer to myown evaluation objectives, it was obvious the Rafale has earned itsomnirole definition, even though I barely scratched the surface of itssensor and weapon capabilities. The aircraft has an incredible level ofperformance befitting a fourth-generation type, and despite flying ahighly complex and demanding evaluation sortie, I felt completely athome in the aircraft and retained full situational awareness. If itcould keep me safe, it would also do the same for young first-touristpilots coping with tactical operations.
The classic definitionsof aircraft combat roles really do not do justice to this aircraft; theRafale is Europe’s force-multiplying “war-fighter” par excellence. Itis simply the best and most complete combat aircraft that I have everflown. Its operational deployments speak for themselves. If I had to gointo combat, on any mission, against anyone, I would, without question,choose the Rafale.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/11/rafale-beats-f-35-f-22-in-flig/جارى المتابعة
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EM0qhjces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EBkwPUstc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vx0UQDH_CY
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Rare video shows F-22 Raptor shot down by the French Rafale in mock air-to-air combat
Jun 19 2013 - 36 Comments
By David Cenciotti
As already mentioned earlier on The Aviationist (especially when discussing the famous claims by the German Eurofighter Typhoon pilots at Red Flag Alaska 2012) in November 2009, some 1st Fighter Wing’s Raptors from Langley AFB, flew to Al Dhafra, in the UAE, to train with the French Air Force Rafales and the RAF Typhoons during exercise ATLC 2009.
The episode is quite famous because in late December of the same year the French Ministry of Defense released the captures taken by the Rafale’s OSF (Optronique Secteur Frontal) showing an F-22 in aerial combat. In fact, although the U.S. Air Force pilots told that their plane was undefeated during the exercise, the French were killed once in six 1 vs 1 WVR (Within Visual Range) engagements versus the F-22 (the other 5 ended with a “draw”) and one Raptor was claimed as killed by a UAE Mirage 2000 during a mock engagement.
However, the following interesting video just made available
by the French website http://portail-aviation.blogspot.fr proves that even the French scored at least a simulated kill (or, to say it better, were able to achieve a proper position to fire a “Fox 2″, an IR-guided Mica missile) against the Raptor.HUD or sensors’ captures and videos are no more than marketing stuff because, unless the scenario and ROE are known, it is impossible to say when the alleged kill took place, what was happening before and after, which was the tactics.
Nevertheless, the video shows that the Rafale is almost comparable to the F-22 especially when maneuvering at low speed during close air combat.
By the way, when we talk about maneuverability, we can’t but mention the Su-35 Flanker-E and its stunning display at Le Bourget.
http://theaviationist.com/2013/06/19/f-22-shot-down-by-rafale/#.UmXwqUrQhW0
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مقتطفات من المصدر ---------- http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/flight-test-dassault-rafale-rampant-rafale-334383/
The commitments have also proved the aircraft's net-centric capabilities within the co-ordination required by coalition air forces and the command and control environment when delivering air support services to ground forces. Six Rafale Ms recently carried out a major joint exercise with the US Navy from the deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier the USS
Theodore Roosevelt.
تدريب مع البحرية الامريكية بصحبة حاملة الطائرات فئة نميتيز
The Rafale is designed for day or night covert low-level penetration, and can carry a maximum of 9.5t of external ordinance, equal to the much larger F-15E. With a basic empty weight of 10.3t, an internal fuel capacity of 4.7t and a maximum take-off weight of 24.5t, the Rafale can lift 140% of additional load, above its own empty weight, into combat.
مقارنة بالفارغ او بالحمولة مع f15e
The Spectra electronic countermeasures system is fully internal and provides radar warning receiver (RWR), active jamming, infrared missile approach warning, laser detection and chaff/flare. Data from Spectra is also "data fused" and fed into the pilot's tactical display. Additionally, the system can be rapidly reprogrammed by frontline ground technicians, as demonstrated operationally in Afghanistan.
عن الداتا المتوفرة للطيار و مميزات رادارية
For interdiction, the long-range weapons carried include the ASMP-A missile and MBDA's modular Scalp-EG, and the main anti-shipping weapon is the MBDA AM39 Exocet. For ground attack, the Rafale is cleared to carry laser-guided bomb types GBU-12 and GBU-22, with GBU-24 planned from 2010.
Sagem's 113kg AASM bomb is the French equivalent of the USA's Boeing JDAM, but has an aft rocket booster for additional range and features GPS or IR terminal guidance. It allows for a pre-programmed individual ground target engagement per bomb and from a multiple release profile, with three carried per bomb rack. In Afghanistan, the French call the AASM "magic bombs".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJao6oaMeM
موضوع: الرافال تهزم اف 35 و الرابتور حقيقة ام خيال 
الإثنين 21 أكتوبر 2013 - 18:18
