Evolution in French Rafale Fighter Jet Explained
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this video, you will learn about the evolution of the French Rafale fighter jet. From its initial conception to its current version, and how its capabilities have been enhanced over the years. From the development of advanced avionics and sensor systems to improvements in weapon systems. This video provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the French Rafale fighter jet's . we explore the key changes that have made the Rafale one of the most lethal fighter jets in the world.
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Evolution in French Rafale Fighter Jet Explained
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most beautiful aircraft in the world for me
Also the most advanced multi role 💪🏻😈🔝🇫🇷
@@fra93ilgrandea copy of the eurofighter typhon, france shameless
@@valerianocuomo996 bro, Dassault was the first on the project and it was Dassault who first presented its aircraft, the Rafale
@@frb-pixie3295 you are french? Ok,Rafale, Saab Gripen and eurofighter typhon they are 3 aircraf of 4 generation and 1/2,All very simils with big capabilitys.But there is a problem of powerful and dominium,a giant GAP. Italy and UK THEY have the f35.5st generation, STEALT, incredible sensoristic,of most: with f35b, the italian and UK they have also Navy of 5st generation. the f35 is a piattaform,a mascine in real time has the control of the dominiums ,also the aircraf carriers they have the eyes of the f35.italy with the next 140 f35A f35b, f35b on CAVOUR and TRIESTE ,only with Rafale: no STEALT, sensoristic less of 5st generation, also the de Gaulle ,sensoristic less present on the CAVOUR, now, airforce and navy of the italy they are the true powerful in Europe , the France, with only a aircraf of,4,5 GENERATION ,for stiil very years ,while italy also has an aircraf 4,5 GENERATION ,but also 140 f35A e f35b ( the italian Eurofighter typhon, 4,5 GENERATION, ) is next an italian invation of the France...🤣
@valerianocuomo996 F35 isn't all that. W/O it stealth Fat Amie is just a shit bird.
the rafale is a pure jewel, a beast, this aircraft can do everything with incredible brilliance, it's a bird of prey!
you are right, an example, in the USA, he met the F16 CJ, its only function is to detect targets on the ground to bomb them, the Rafale, omni role (which does all types of missions) ridiculed this specialized aircraft in detecting ground targets at 35/40 km, which the F16 had not detected! In bombing, with the A2SM bomb (AASM) can fire this bomb in 1000 kg version at 15000 m altitude and these munitions will travel 70 km with a precision of 1 meter, we can practically choose the window through which the bomb will enter inside ! the Rafale fires the 300 Kt ASMPA nuclear missile with around 500 km range! the Rafale can fire the SCALP missile with a range of 560 km! the Rafale can fire the EXOCET anti-ship missile! the Rafale can fire a 30 mm cannon on ground targets or bombs (it replaces the JAGUAR in this function) and in air superiority, the burst has ridiculed the Eurofighter, 18 fights in 2009, 16 to 2 for the Rafale ! the Rafale met the F22, supposedly the best air superiority plane, the Rafale showed that it was largely at its level, 6 fights, 5 fights were classified as mutual neutralization and the 6th fight, the Rafale's victory with 2 separate and different shots! and yet, the F22 has 31.2 tons of thrust, the Rafale only 15 tons, the F22 flies faster with mach 2.2 while the Rafale was limited to mach 1.8 (already flown at mach 2!!) and the F22 has vectorized thrust, which the Rafale does not have! yes, you are right, the Rafale is a beast of war, the late English pilot Peter Collins said that the Rafale is a brute, capable of breaking your spine! the Rafale remains the only aircraft to reach 11G+ while the others do not exceed 9G+!! and in a video, the Indian air marshal who manages the bursts who answers the questions of an Indian journalist, the journalist asks what he thinks of the Rafale, the marshal replies that the Rafale is an exceptional plane, and its interface comes from another world!!
the Rafaleee!! what a magnificent aircraft, it can do everything with brio...it is a pure jewel ! i love it so much !
First, the narration says the Rafale carries 9000 lbs. max. on its external hardpoints, then seconds later it says it's 9000 kg. A kilogram is about 2.2 lbs. For those who are rightly confused, the Dassault website says both numbers are off. It can carry 9.5 metric tonnes (9500 kg), which converts to 21,000 lbs.
it is 9500 kg of armament or 14650 kg in armament and fuel, the Rafale C weighs 9850 kg, and 24500 kg at full load, this poor Eurofighter which weighs 11000 kg carries only 10000 kg in armament and fuel! total weight of 21000 kg! a Rafale therefore carries 4650 kg more than the Eurofighter which is however faster and above all more powerful than the Rafale!!
@@LOLOVAL-os3pqI was always a fan of both of those, and in the early days clearly favoured the Typhoon. But with the upgrades the french have put into the Rafale, it has evolved into something else, man.
@@patta8388 have you noticed several design flaws on the Eurofighter? ) the air inlets are next to each other, already, first fault, they are in the axis of the engines, therefore, an enemy plane from the front will detect the infrared sources of the two engines through the inlets air (on the Rafale, they are not in the axis of the engines) second, in the event of extinction of one of the two engines, the second can be extinguished by a pumping effect (on the Rafale, the two air inlets are separate, so there is no risk of the second engine shutting down due to pumping effect), the canards obstruct the pilot's downward vision (on the Rafale, the canards are further back) in addition, they are only used to unhook before the wings, they have no interaction on the wings because they are placed too far forward (on the Rafale, the canards benefit entirely from the wings, increasing lift if necessary by diverting the air flow on top of the wing), the front landing gear is poorly placed, it prohibits the installation of a ventral tank of more than liters (on the Rafale, we can install a tank of liters without problem) the rear landing gear is poorly placed, it forces the installation of large loads closest to the central part, where the resistance is the strongest, the large loads are pushed a little further towards the ends of the wings (this inconvenience does not exist on the Rafale) not to mention a construction defect in the airframe discovered by the German mechanics, which limited the maneuvers to 7G and not 9G during the demonstrations (the Rafale demonstrated at more than 10G, once 10.4G displayed on the heads-up display) one wonders if the design of the Eurofighter with 4 was not counterproductive?????? the funny thing, the left wing is not made in the same country as the right wing!!! This is all the truth!!!
oui , exact , le Rafale C pèse 9850 kg , il emporte 9500 kg d'amement et il a une masse maximale de 24500 kg , soit presque 150% de son poids à vide ( c'est un record pour un avion de moins de 10 tonnes , avion en service , et non un prototype ) 14650 kg carburant et armement soit 32297,721 lbs
@@patta8388 I don't understand how the 4 countries that participated in the development of the Eurofighter could have made so many mistakes, these two planes are very similar, but the Eurofighter being more powerful and faster than the Rafale should have been very close to the Rafale while in 2009, the results of the 18 fights between these two planes showed that the Rafale is clearly superior!! I really and sincerely have difficulty understanding this huge difference!! as for the maximum admissible load on the Eurofighter, empty weight 11000 kg, fully loaded 21000 kg or 10000 kg in armament and fuel, while the Rafale carries almost the same weight only in armament with 9500 kg!! I really don't understand that, I swear I don't understand this huge difference for two devices that are so similar! like the load factor of the Rafale which is 11G positive and only 9G for the Eurofighter, it is incomprehensible to me!!!
My fav fighter.....❤
the Rafale is the beast !!
Copy of eurofighter
@@valerianocuomo996lol
@@valerianocuomo996Dude, did you put this nonsense under every comment?
@@valerianocuomo996 first flight Rafale 1986 , first flight Eurofighter 1994 !!! 8 years !! LOL copy of Rafale the Eurofighter !! LOL
Mais qu'il est beau ce Rafale !
C'est sur..... beau et léthal ✌
Eurofighter typhon....shame
WoW !! This aircraft shot down a F- 22 !!
Wow F15, F16, F18, Eurofighter, F35 and even an A10 Warthog was spotted with a silhouette of a F22 on its nose. Yes many in this list including Rafale. But the reality is F22 has a much higher kill ratio the other way. An interesting fact that when 4 Rafale B ( 2 seat version ) went to Red Flag they first warmed up against F16s and won 3-1.
@@NATObait what a bad faith... Can you see 3 mn footage on a Rafale behind a F22, in difficulty so many times that it could have been shooted three times ? And tell me after you have seen something similar with any other kind of aircraft you mentioned ?
@@bug2k64 did you ever read what that rafale pilot said on the dogfight??? He said F-22 is true dogfight machine, but i hardly shot it, but again in real life Fox 2 can miss its target. Stop living in stupid dream, now france is making 6th gen aircraft which almost look like raptor 😂, they know the capability of raptor, they are not stupid like you which is living its own Rafale supremacy world that don't exist!.
Dassault Rafale, French beauty and deadly.
and the Rafale F5 will be significantly better than anything else out there!! especially its revolutionary radar will make it possible to detect stealth planes like the F35 or the F22!!
Not so many countries can operate fighter jets with their own nuclear power; France with its Rafale is independent and autonomous unlike countries ordering the F35 with nuclear power operated by the US!
Side note: the Rafale is the only foreign jet that can land on the US carrier...
Copy of eurofighter
@@valerianocuomo996 no independent nuclear weapons on the Eurofighter 👎
Nuclear bomb is not possible use,also Pakistan has nuclear....french airforce and navy is in inferiority..stop
@@valerianocuomo996 LOL
@@valerianocuomo996 Sorry, but the first démonstration rafale was finished and flyed 2 years before the typhoon..
there is 1 thing you got wrong. The standard f1 could carry laser guided bombs but couldnt guide them. So every bombing mission was made by 1 rafale and 1 super etendard aside him that will guide the bomb
"France *secretly* worked on its carrier-based aircraft "
BS. It was never "secret". In 1976 France was working on the Mirage 4000: delta wing, 2 jet engines, canards just above the air intakes (as for Rafale's design), 1st flight on March 9, 1979, way before the Eurofighter. Mirage 4000 was the Rafale's ancestor.
Mirage 4000 ... en 1979 .... et avant lui le mirage milan avec des plans canards avec premier essai en vol en 1968 ... voilà d'où vient le rafale ... l'.Eurofighter s'est largement inspiré des travaux de Dassault ... pas l'inverse ... 😏😏😏
the best of the best
That's also why the Rafale is better than the Eurofighter 😎 👊🏻 🔝
@@valerianocuomo996 not a copy lmao
@@valerianocuomo996 only the shape a little but it's deeply different inside
Rafale isn't better than Typhoon, Frenchs are living own fantasy world 😂.
@@thetopsecretpentagonsclass6350 noo,they are a bit egocentric,but in Europe, together at the Italy ,they are the true fathers of the Europe. Italy and France THEY are the masters of the engineering: together they are in very joint ventures with know out in all: in the NAVY, from destroyer s, fregate s FREMM, LOGISTIC ships ,Fincantieri and Naval Co, in the SPACE: THELES ALENIA LEONARDO,BUIL SATELLITI, FRANCE and italy, in Europa,They are unique with CAPABILITY of build ROCKETS FOR THE SPACE: ITALY BUILD the VEGA C ,Arianne : italy build the 2 boosters,France with the european agency space,the vettors.ENGLAND it is shameless: the country has not capabilitys, he asks help at VIRGIN RADIO 🤣also first in the build of semiconductors ,only in Europa 🤣,STMICROELETTRINIC, automotive Stellantis, the MBDA Co IN THE MISSILISTIC SISTEMS, ETC ETC.
@@valerianocuomo996 no, italy & France is stupidest countries in entire europe.
not the fastest but surely the be(A)st!
Good Research based Content.👌
Thanks 🙂
FYI:
Rafale is pronounced Ra - Fal (as in Pal)
Dassault is pronounced Da - sso (as in Lasso). The L is silent.
Have a nice day. 😊
And what are the names of American commercial planes that don't crash?
By the noise they make when they bounce like balloons:
Boeing, Boeing, Boeing
OK, sorry 😘
French Rafale can Kill F35 aircraft !!! This plane so perfect !!! ❤❤
No its not. It doesn't have any capability to defeat F-35.
there was a compétitions beteween f35 and rafale in netherlands rafale won …
@@soppal_1697 Netherlands operate F-35. Don't live in Rafale imagination.
the Rafale's victory is in fact a leak, but strangely enough there was a second evaluation and the F35 won, but this time obviously there were no documents to prove it, just the Netherlands saying they had won.
Wasn't it F-22 instead?
Made in France 🇫🇷.
Yes
what a powerful aircraft, it can do everything perfectly, a real bird of prey !
New génération Rafale operational ! Yes ! ❤
Is only 4+ generation, is a copy of the eurofighter 4,5 GENERATION
Currently, while Dassault and all its partners are working on the latest official standard, namely the F5, the French army is at the same time upgrading all its current Rafales to the F4 standard. Note that in recent reports, Dassault has suggested that it could work on a possible F6 standard and that it would consider reviving the great family of mirages.
French always do it better
Grece , Slovenia and Croatia give order to buy!!!!
Slovenia?
Not yet.
Serbia seems interested though.
幻象2000戰斗機非常棒,飆風跟讚,也可以招到非常優秀的飛行員,
現在已經老了
@@Defence360mes tjr efficace pour la supériorité aérienne
RAFALE pronounced like NADAL (tennis player)
Really good video, would love to see the refuelling probe integrated to a pop out type feature…
The fixed refueling probe is for reliability.
omg calm down the montage while the introduction !! 3 or 4 image by second seriously ? Rafale is a beautifull plane let iu admire it more than 0.3s per picture...
UAE just signed up for 80 of the F3 variant
ua-cam.com/video/4KRWjIta2KA/v-deo.html
F3R with the extant to F4.
Awesome content and voice 🎉
F4 RAFALE JET IS COMING UP NOW WITH SERIOUS UPGRADES FOR WEAPONS AND TARGET SYSTEM.. NEXT F5 RAFALE WILL CARRY HYPERSONIC FRENCH MISSILES. RAFALE IS THE BEST FIGHTER JET OF THE WORLD WHICH CAN FACE 5/6 GENERATION FIGHTER JETS NOW.. RAFALE IS BASED ON UPGRADES WITH TIME... NEEDLESS TO BUILD NEW JET FIGHTERS FOR SUCH AND SUCH OPERATION WHEN A SINGLE ONE CAN PERFORM EVERYTHING LIKE THE RAFALE !!!
Copy of eurofighter
@@valerianocuomo996 eurofighter’s first flight was after rafale’s one but yeah sure
@@valerianocuomo996 the design is necessarily similar because it was the same project on the beginning!
@@shaveridanand it was like 5 years after sooo …
@@valerianocuomo996The Typhoon is still my favourite, but c'mon dude. Don't spew bullshit. The Rafale is not a copy and these days actually the better aircraft.
Since the release of this video three months ago, I would like to add information regarding the standards of the burst. Currently in 2023, most of the French Rafales are at the F4 standard, but by 2040 there are plans to bring all French Rafales to the latest official standard planned, which is the F5 standard. In the meantime, the manufacturer Dassault Aviation and its partners are said to be working on a possible Standard F6, but this should not see the light of day before 2060.
If i'm not mistaking i think that the F4 standard as been validate only few month ago so it will hard to modernise all the F3 standard rafales into F3/R standard (equivalent to the F4 standard) in just few month it wil take few years. But the new rafales that are being delivered to France in the "all Rafale" project to replace the good old mirage and increase the capabilities will be native F4 standard of course.
@@fidelio3841 Some F3-R are updated to the F4.1 standard. New planes are F4.2. The F4 standard (F4.1 & F4.2) was validated in 03/2023.
@@Ben__S
NO NO NO AND NO !!!! ADN FUCKING NO !!!
F3 CAN'T EVOLVE TO F4 !!!
STOP saying wrong things !!!!
f know Rafale far better than you, I follow this program since I was a young boy in the late 80s , and I guess that you were not even born in the 80s
France withdrew from eurofighter project only because the plane was so ugly. Chanel, Dior and Hermes said NO : " We need a french beauty" ! True story.
je ne vois pas d'autres explications lol
"To fly well, an airplane must be beautiful"
Marcel Dassault
Hence the Mahogany instruments panel and ostrich leather cushions in the cockpit.
@@jetaddicted super chic!
You are just a stupid guy who knows absolutely nothing at all.
Typhoon has been developped MAINLY as a superiority air defense aircraft, so this is BASICALLY a specialized aircraft.
Typhoon has been further developped in multirole function BUT NOT with the same success as Rafale.
Typhoon is still a good "interceptor" but THIS IS STILL AN AWFULL aircraft for air to ground mission, penetrating deeply in the enemy territoty
There is also a very simple reason little STUPID GUY, most country that runs Typhoons BOUGHT F 35, F35 is also a speciliazed aircraft but the the area of "attack aircraft", so Tyhoon and F35 are complementary aircraft.
France didn't want to be so much "american" dependant, so at the begining IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CLEAR THAT RAFALE WOULD BE ULTIMATELY MULTIROLE and would possibly evolve in a another navy version (this was not clear at the beginning as "buying" american fighter jet for the Charles de Gaulles carrier was an "open" option, Dassault simply proved later to the "DGA" that its Rafle could do this adaptation)
So fundamentally, designing a "per se" multirole did have a great impact on basic architectures choices, and quickly DGA and Dassault came to the conclusion that based on the architectural choices required by other countries, Typhoon would never be at all a good multirole fighter.... and lately, they have been totally right.
Contrary to many other european countries, France leads external operations since long time... and France needed ABSOLUTELY an aircraft that would have enhanced air attack capablliies. Clients of the Typhoon were only interested by "air defence superiority" as most of them had ordered the F35, so France kwew that Typhoon Multorole would comme VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY lately, and would porbably not be as efficient as expected.
If Rafale is still selling very well and Typhoon has not recorded new customers since long time.... thera are obvious reasons. As most countries have not the defence budget of USA able to manage huge specialized fleets of aircraft, Rafale is the ONLY GOOD MODERN SOLUTION proving to have an excellent superiority air defence capabilities combined with efficent air attack capabilities, far better than multirole version F16 Viper, and better than F18 Hornet
Indonesia wanted F35, but US refused and offered F16 VIper.... Indonesia immediately switched to Rafale (and also french Scorpene submarine), considering it as far more advanced that F16 VIper, and got absolutely NO INTEREST at all for the Typhoon.... because Indenosia was very interested by "Omnirole capabilities" that doen't really have the Typhoon as today.
And you know what ? Typhoon has never beaten a Rafale in NATO dogfight training, the only one to have today superior capacities in air defense over Rafale is F22 (not speaking of very new russian SU-57 for which we know very few things)
And between SCAF and Tempest, this will be the same thing. SCAF is currently designed to be "per se" multirole and to further evolve in a "navy" version, Tempest is designed mainly as the successor of the Typhoon so AS a superiority air defence aircraft because AGAIN britis, italiian, Japanese.... have alreday F35 that are targetting air attack role.
In fact... there are currenttly two American NGAD programs... one leaded by Northrop to be the successor of F35 for the american air force and one leaded by Boeing to be the successor of F18 Hornet for the american Navy... One is a specialized aircraft, the other is clearly a "multirolle aircraft", so SCAF will be likely more a competitor to the Boeing NGAD program, not really for the Northrop program who focuses clearly on furtivity.
Initially, it wasn't planned to build 250 aircraft for France, but 320. Then it was reduced to 286. Then, reduiced again, but without knowing the final target. The defense white book define a target of 225 fighter aircraft for both air force and Navy. But it can be changed. "Tranche 5" order is awaited and planned for the next month's to come. 180 is the order at that time but for France it is not finished.
Pour info, le Pod damocles a été remplacé par le pod Talios sur le standard F3R il est beaucoup plus performant!
The confusion of SPECTRA being a electronic attack system but is actually just a SPJ
@@Hypersonic-es6vh Still a SPJ. Not an attack jammer. You typed a wall but its still self protection.
@@Hypersonic-es6vh SPECTRA (Self-Protection Equipment to Counter Threats for Rafale Aircraft). Stop posting FALSEHOODS!
The Rafale's jammer is called BAN Jammer. It is fully integrated with SPECTRA, navigation and attack systems with data fusion picked up and recorded by the central computer.
It can totally jam the radar system of the Su-35 and defeat it in dogfight as demonstrated in Egypt recently.
@@Ben__S Are you sure ? Jam the radar of the Su35 ? Sounds like a big deal for a SPJ. Can spoof the radar for self protection i believe possible to prevent a missile lock. To jam the radar totally like you said ? Poor radar knowledge in the Sukhoi likely.
@@pigmoonk2545 Yes, I am. Su-35 certainly has a technological gap, but the SPECTRA BAN system is very efficient. The system is something more complex, global than a SPJ, and integrated to the central computer. This allows it to evolve and it was designed to.
83 acheté par les émirats Unis et non 8
I noticed around 7 way to pronounce "Rafale" 😂😂 it would have been so easy to write it in Google translate and listen 🤡🤡🤡
Every English speaker gets confused by the « E » at the end and will pronounce it Raf-Ale (as in beer), but that « E » is silent and we French pronounce it « Raf Al » as in Albert.
@@jetaddicted i know, there are "only" 35000 words in English coming from French. You probably did known it.
@infinite Vibes what AI voice do you use?
One that doesn't know how to pronounce Dassault or Rafale.
@@JohnHughesChampigny lmaoooo
Narator : "while indonesia has become the latest customer to buy rafale"
just it ?
The true UFO !
You are french...😅😅😅ufo robot 🤖
@valerianocuono do you hate the French that bad? Yes it’s a copy, but let’s give France some credit for good food😂
@@user-uh5gs8md2p Lol a copy but which flies two years before the eurofighter and which destroys the euro fight in competition even while being voluntarily bridled which is much more exported and especially much more beautiful 😎 - a beautiful plane is a plane which flies well (the boss of dassault aviation speaking about the rafale)
13:31 wtf😂
When you need to carry all the groceries in one trip
@@Babicostehe meant that 9000 pounds does not equal 9000 kg
@@alta6055 @Babicoste In addition, in US you use pound, in UK it's Livre
@@olivierrocat3932 pound is the english word for livre, they both use pounds which are written « lb »
Damn good fighter. The Swedes should be concerned.
robovoice? rader? rafael??? ))
I think the Rafale F4 will be one of the best choices on the international fighter market, even to prefer over the F-35. It would be the best replacement for Austrias badly cut back EF Typhoons TR1. But sadly this will never happen, because austrian politicians did not much care about sufficient air defense.
And if they don't really need it, French armament companies will be reluctant to work with Aussies after what happened with the subs.
@@BzhToine The failed submarine deal between France and Australia has nothing to do with the air defense of Austria.
@@Ghostwulf.J.M.
Sorry my bad, had a long day before answering you and missread Austria.
Great 4th gen fighter. 🧐
@@Hypersonic-es6vh Doesnt matter how you want to dress up a 4th gen fighter , it will still be a 4th gen. You have to be Born into it, like the F 35 . The Rafale is a good 4+ Gen.
"generation" does not man anything. It is a checkbox list that does bot match the real effectiveness of the jet.
For instance, if you go to a technical choice of your own, you won't check the "5th gen" list but still you can outperform 5th gen jet.
Only effectiveness matters.
And 5th generation do not mean better effectiveness.
Loved the jet, it looks beautiful & badass, but your narration makes me hate it.
*9000 lb=9000 kg😂
C’est 82 appareils acheté par l’Arabie Saoudite et non 8😮
Ce sont les Emirats Arabes Unis pas l'Arabie Saoudite
Versus
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the Rafale program started in 1984, the first flight of the Rafale was in 1986, Dassault designed the Rafale in 2 years! as Dassault still had Mirage 2000s to produce, the time between 1986 and its entry into service in the French army allowed its improvement, as the M88 were still in development, the Rafale flew with two American engines, like these two engines were much bigger than the M88s, the silhouette of the Rafale was further refined thanks to the M88s! the Rafale is a 10 ton aircraft (9850 kg for the Rafale C) it still holds several records in its category (-10 tons and twin engine)
The Rafale programm itself started in 1988. In 1984 it was a technological demonstrator. Rafale A (first flight in 1986 ) and C (1991) have a general aerodynamic in common, but they are two completely different aircraft.
The real "roots" of Rafale program is "Mirage 4000" that Dassault tried to develop for Saudi Arabia, as France was not interested, being at this time a too "ambitious" program. So no, Dassault has never developped this aircraft in 2 years, this is in fact a much longer and complex stories, Dassault acquired many KEY design with the Mirage 4000 demonstrator to later amend the projetc in a mulltirole program.
@@fidelio3841 and the 4000 come from the G8, and so on... We are talking about a technological demonstrator. It's development of an airframe and FMS, that's it.
It was similar for EFA, X
X32 and X35, etc. It took the same time approximately for 4000 development. The development of internal weapon system, sensors, data fusion and electronic warfare take much longer time.
@@fidelio3841 the Mirage 4000 looks more like a Mirage 2000 on steroids, but there is not much in common between the Rafale and the Mirage 4000, electric flight controls also exist on the Mirage 2000! where did you read that the Mirage 4000 was designed for Saudi Arabia, on wikmerdia, apart from that the 4000 was designed with Dassault's own funds for the French Air Force, the relationship with Saudi Arabia is that this country with Iraq were interested but the negotiations were unsuccessful!! the French state having refused to finance the program for the design of other prototypes, Dassault stopped this program, if you take the information from wikimerdia, make sure to read correctly and repeat the same thing!! but, there is no relationship in terms of shape, size, engines and others with the Rafale! the only similarities are the identical electric flight controls on the 2000 and the 4000, and the delta wings! but the Rafale program got off to a good start after France left the other countries which did not have the same needs as France, because France with 2 aircraft carriers also needed an aircraft which landed on these aircraft carriers!
@@bug2k64 thank you but I know all that, and what you say is false, the Rafale program started in 1984, like any aircraft, there is always a demonstrator, but it was still a Rafale, the whole thing looked like the Serial flurry! and yes, I know that prototype A had 2 American engines, F404s, you are going to teach me what my country manufactures maybe???? I am French, and I worked for a Dassault and Airbus subcontractor!
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