Dassault do not communicate about Rafale indianization. What we know for sure is that there will be HMD, anti ARM lissile and SATCOM.
And yes, for example IAF will be consulted for MLU. (At least that's what toldme one of Dassault vice presidents)
yes, and talking to Dassault executives, they told me they valued 60 years old client like india and wouldnt sign if the contract wasn't iron clad. Of course they are from Dassault...
In this document (in french), it is stated that during flight trials, an "agressive" pilot has flown RAfale as slow as ... 15 Kts... And it was before opening high incidence domain...
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Points 2 and 13 are being opened on experimental B301 in Istres (Vianney Riller Jr saw them), which is far different from being qualified Armée de l'air.
1er RPIMA is part of COS (spec ops). Their standard weapon is HK416, but time to time they use other rifles. The guys you saw are probably from CPA (comanndo parachtiste de l'air) 20 or 30. But in regular troops you will also see some SCAR in GCP (groupement commando parachtistes, kind of "reco"...
Opening the external wingstations is done on experimental Rafale in Istres (different to qualification by AdlA). and UAE no more ask for RBE2AA enhancement. Prototype largely exceeded specs at CEAM Mt de Marsan (more than double range). 2 cruise missile config is already qualified, yes 3 was at...
Hello, i am writing for a french blog (though i'm not the main author) le portail des passionnés de l'aviation
We are qtarting atm a series of article about asian airplanes, one wasalready posted by the main author on j10.
As you can see it is a popularization blog. We would need a pakistani...
Many other news from DBX 13 : Storm shadow and Taurus to start integration, and a new aerodynamics kit on design (basically lerx and extended range flaperons) that would allow higher roll rate and flight at 40° AoA