Resultado de un dia de dogfights entre los Rafale y los
F-16 Block 52 de la USAF(arizona)
Recently , the USAF invited some Rafale F2s to do some advanced dogfighting against some
F-16s Blk 52 .
It was a one v one confrontation repeated multiple times . The drill did last 3 days . The French and the Americans pilots had to find each other in a big portion of sky (100x100 km/square), then close in and go dogfighting .
The French Airforce only released the results of the first day :
6-2 in favor of the Rafale .
It has been on the French news on the main TV channel TF1 .
Video :
h*tp://videos.tf1.fr/video/news/0,,3931177,00-contre-rafale-vrai-faux-combat-.html
Quick translation of the video (the good bits):
French pilot : " we 're going to separate in the zone and then try to find each other , one Rafale and one F-16 , then go do WVR . We feel that the USAF is very curious about the Rafale and we think that they know what they are up against , so I think that we 're going to bluff them "
Second French Pilot talk :
" It went well , the F-16s were very cool to fight against and we managed to shootdown them from time to time , it was good "
Commentator :
"The Americans admit that they have been impressed by the French fighter "
The USAF pilot :
" The Rafale is an aircraft with unique capabilities which can be flown in a very aggressive manner , more than the F-16 . But you know , the most important is the capabilities of the pilot (!)"
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I think that sums up a lot , BUT I remind you that the Rafale pilots are not allowed to use active jamming during drills with Allies (SPECTRA and OSF have only been used to find the opponent).
It also shows that the APG-68(v9) radar (with a quoted range of 300km )doesn 't give an adge to the Falcon against the PESA RBE2 and the "discret" RCS of the Rafale .
It also shows that MICA is a very good dogfighting missile and does its job and it also shows that Rafale is more manoeuvrable than the F-16 Blk52 (which is the best dogfighther that the USAF has) .
I dare to say that if SPECTRA was used to its full extent (active jamming), the result would have been 6-0 .
link de la pagina
http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums...2874/page2.aspx
video de los enfrentamientos
http://videos.tf1.fr/video/news/0,,3931177...ux-combat-.html
Los tanques se les ven en las misiones de despegue dentro del red flag 2008.En youtube se ven algunos videos.
En vez de anti radar,llamemoslo active jamming.Que ya sabemos todos para que es.
En el ultimo red flag los sukhoi india no llevaban el nuevo radar activado,no querian desvelar que verdadero alcanze posee,solo utilizaron el irst,el rafale tenia buenos resultados en las misiones que le encomendaron.
