Excellent guide to an outstanding tactic. This iz exactly how the MICA should be used. High off bore, last second launches when the enemy has no recourse and you are already notching.
There's another way. Rafale is very agile at high speed and has good acceleration. It doesn't have any high speed compression at all. Meaning, you can stay at 1400km/h at 5200-5600m, close in watching RWR markers carefully to monitor the distance to the enemy missile, launch a MICA from this high energy state and still have enough time to pull into the notch if you did everything correctly. Only the Eurofighter could possibly compete with Rafale at that with the same move. Funnily enough, the R-27ER would do better against Rafale doing this than an AMRAAM because SARH missiles don't emit anything thus don't have the threat marker for the RWR, only the carrier's radar illumination. Also, the Persian cat breaks the timings with Fckr-90 because it's fast and has rather short pitbull range - I've even brought it to the top tier several times for shits and giggles, people do fall for this missile surprisingly often. If only F-14A's RWR wasn't such a piece of trash, and engines weren't anemic...
Hey man, good skills. Being French and enjoying SIM very much, I find your Rafale gameplay very enjoyable, especially as studying takes up too much of my time to keep playing... I was just wondering why you play with the radar display as a half circle and not as a square ? I find it much easier to evaluate the distance to the target and have better situational awareness overall.
While close range is absolutely easier to tell with the square screen, having the angles visually represented to me is a huge help to determining how angled i am to them. This helps a lot with notching and visually acquiring a target when your plane lacks a HUD marker. It's also just what I have used for so long i am very used to it so the difficulty at close range distances inst too bad for me anymore.
Love the vid. Just wondering as i was trying rafale in sim the other day and I noticed that the hud does not show the closure rate and distance of the radar target that you are locked onto, which is a feature that the mirage 2000 has. Am I missing something here?
Not that I am aware of no. The HUD leaves some to be desired for sure esspecially with the weird gun sight. The Eurofighter wins in the data department for the HUD and HMD for sure, but at the end of the day.... cant beat HMD IFF lol
@ yea I agree, I heavily rely on the closure rate to really work out where the target is heading I find it rlly hard to do that without, especially in sim so this is prob gon be a dealbreaker for me and rafale sim
I'll try this tactic, personally when I want to BVR, I just climb 10km, get to mach 1.5 and engage target flying low. I usually shoot when they are at around 30km, and it's a 50% kill chance in general. And very safe to defend as well as they are much lower than you, just getting cold will be enough to defeat, no even need to chaff
yeah top down will always be more effective, but in the Rafale you can get outclassed quickly at high alt. This and also going cold has a much longer re-engagement time especially if you want to regain speed. This way you can still stay below contrail height and have a very quick re-engagement if needed. Both tactic serve their purpose.
@64Mustang sure, I will not engage aim120 carriers flying at the same altitude as me, but actually in SIM it's not that common, most of people are hugging the deck
Sup, man, thanks for the video. I just got my first "top tier" jet this week. It's the german MiG 29, 12.7. How much would the BVR combat from the MiG differ from the Rafale? Can I even dogfight anything in the MiG?
oh man... well yeah its gonna be very different. Your radar is not going to be nearly as effective, it's search speed is really slow so you will have some issues actually locating targets on the Radar. the good news is you have the best Fox1 missile being the R27ET which can outrange everything short of a phoenix in that BR. So yes while some of the tactics still apply you have to implement them differently. Since you only have FOX1 and cant fire and forget like i do in the vid, you have to maintain the lock the whole way. you can still keep them in the edge of the radar incase you need to dump and defend. the other pro to this is while your missile has a short path, if they launch on you while you are angled their missile has an even longer path. as far as dogfighting goes don't listen to the haters. yes the Mig29 isn't the best dogfighter out there... it bleeds speed like crazy but the trade off is it can pull crazy AOA and good nose authority. Its not the best by any means, but its not as bad as most say it is. hope this helps lemme know if you have any other questions
@@64Mustang Thanks, I will remember this when playing. I did dogfight a f16a another day, like 3 times in the macth and he smoked me. How would you dogfight a f16 in the Mig? Last question I swear 😅
@@RobertoMattes oh brother.... the F16A has probably the 3rd or 4th strongest flight model in the game, probably tied with F15A and just below Grippen and Eurofighter. There really arent any times i can give here honestly. Other than try and get an early advantage, come into the merge slow, below 900kmh. Hopefully he comes in hot and you can get early position behind him. dont rely on missiles unless he isnt paying attention, R60s suck for dogfight missiles. if you can get behind him you should be good, just capitalize on any mistake they make really and try not to get too slow.
Nice video man!
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Excellent guide to an outstanding tactic. This iz exactly how the MICA should be used. High off bore, last second launches when the enemy has no recourse and you are already notching.
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There's another way.
Rafale is very agile at high speed and has good acceleration. It doesn't have any high speed compression at all. Meaning, you can stay at 1400km/h at 5200-5600m, close in watching RWR markers carefully to monitor the distance to the enemy missile, launch a MICA from this high energy state and still have enough time to pull into the notch if you did everything correctly. Only the Eurofighter could possibly compete with Rafale at that with the same move.
Funnily enough, the R-27ER would do better against Rafale doing this than an AMRAAM because SARH missiles don't emit anything thus don't have the threat marker for the RWR, only the carrier's radar illumination. Also, the Persian cat breaks the timings with Fckr-90 because it's fast and has rather short pitbull range - I've even brought it to the top tier several times for shits and giggles, people do fall for this missile surprisingly often. If only F-14A's RWR wasn't such a piece of trash, and engines weren't anemic...
Hey man, good skills. Being French and enjoying SIM very much, I find your Rafale gameplay very enjoyable, especially as studying takes up too much of my time to keep playing... I was just wondering why you play with the radar display as a half circle and not as a square ? I find it much easier to evaluate the distance to the target and have better situational awareness overall.
While close range is absolutely easier to tell with the square screen, having the angles visually represented to me is a huge help to determining how angled i am to them. This helps a lot with notching and visually acquiring a target when your plane lacks a HUD marker. It's also just what I have used for so long i am very used to it so the difficulty at close range distances inst too bad for me anymore.
Love the vid. Just wondering as i was trying rafale in sim the other day and I noticed that the hud does not show the closure rate and distance of the radar target that you are locked onto, which is a feature that the mirage 2000 has. Am I missing something here?
Not that I am aware of no. The HUD leaves some to be desired for sure esspecially with the weird gun sight. The Eurofighter wins in the data department for the HUD and HMD for sure, but at the end of the day.... cant beat HMD IFF lol
@ yea I agree, I heavily rely on the closure rate to really work out where the target is heading I find it rlly hard to do that without, especially in sim so this is prob gon be a dealbreaker for me and rafale sim
I'll try this tactic, personally when I want to BVR, I just climb 10km, get to mach 1.5 and engage target flying low. I usually shoot when they are at around 30km, and it's a 50% kill chance in general. And very safe to defend as well as they are much lower than you, just getting cold will be enough to defeat, no even need to chaff
yeah top down will always be more effective, but in the Rafale you can get outclassed quickly at high alt. This and also going cold has a much longer re-engagement time especially if you want to regain speed. This way you can still stay below contrail height and have a very quick re-engagement if needed. Both tactic serve their purpose.
@64Mustang sure, I will not engage aim120 carriers flying at the same altitude as me, but actually in SIM it's not that common, most of people are hugging the deck
@@NsK363 yeah, just depends. either tactics work for their specific situations, best to implement either when appropriate
@@64Mustang exactly !
Sup, man, thanks for the video. I just got my first "top tier" jet this week. It's the german MiG 29, 12.7. How much would the BVR combat from the MiG differ from the Rafale? Can I even dogfight anything in the MiG?
oh man... well yeah its gonna be very different. Your radar is not going to be nearly as effective, it's search speed is really slow so you will have some issues actually locating targets on the Radar.
the good news is you have the best Fox1 missile being the R27ET which can outrange everything short of a phoenix in that BR. So yes while some of the tactics still apply you have to implement them differently.
Since you only have FOX1 and cant fire and forget like i do in the vid, you have to maintain the lock the whole way. you can still keep them in the edge of the radar incase you need to dump and defend. the other pro to this is while your missile has a short path, if they launch on you while you are angled their missile has an even longer path.
as far as dogfighting goes don't listen to the haters. yes the Mig29 isn't the best dogfighter out there... it bleeds speed like crazy but the trade off is it can pull crazy AOA and good nose authority. Its not the best by any means, but its not as bad as most say it is.
hope this helps lemme know if you have any other questions
@@64Mustang Thanks, I will remember this when playing. I did dogfight a f16a another day, like 3 times in the macth and he smoked me. How would you dogfight a f16 in the Mig? Last question I swear 😅
@@RobertoMattes oh brother.... the F16A has probably the 3rd or 4th strongest flight model in the game, probably tied with F15A and just below Grippen and Eurofighter. There really arent any times i can give here honestly. Other than try and get an early advantage, come into the merge slow, below 900kmh. Hopefully he comes in hot and you can get early position behind him. dont rely on missiles unless he isnt paying attention, R60s suck for dogfight missiles. if you can get behind him you should be good, just capitalize on any mistake they make really and try not to get too slow.
How to play BVR in Rafale? Simple, you don't. Close range only + hmd.
@D0gEAtD0g yeah that's the perfect spot for it. Though it is still %100 viable in the high off bore medium range BVR as well.