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My what if!! They may be exercising in an integrated air battle mode in both centralized and distributed EW environments!!! It’s like a collective personality, where each for all, and all for each!! And, Rafaels might have been put in the receiving end of such a scenario…Let's be very clear. Block 2s are no match for the Rafale in WVR. BVR is another domain and a lot depends on signal processing and support systems such as AEWACs. I don't believe PAF participated with any AEWACs but if they somehow had an interface with the Turkish one and it provided targeting coordinates, the results could be favorable.
The main question is whether Qatar used the SPECTRA system or not. How did Rafale's integrated EW and countermeasures perform? Let us not forget that Block 2s field only a PD radar which is exactly what SPECTRA was made for. I would not write-off French technology so easily.
The 'win' against Rafale also depends on mission profile. For example, Rafale is tasked with air cover, and the Thunder deploys stand-off weapons which Rafale is unable to imagine. Is this being counted as one of the 6 wins? This changes the impact of the win drastically.
The real fun will begin when and if Rafales come to Pakistan and either a prototype or actual Block 3 goes against them, spruiked with RD-93 MA and HMD/S and armed with PL-10 and PL-15 backed by KLJ-7A. Now that will be a true fight.
The French are famous for overestimating themselves only to face catastrophes! Remember in WW1, they sent horse riding cavalry in an all out “Elan” against the fixed German positions with meticulous heavy machine gun nets! They got mowed down like ants!! And, remember the Maginot Line in WW2. It was almost like a science fiction from Jules Vernes!!! By the by, the German panzer divisions simply bypassed them and marched through the gaps to take out France within a couple of weeks…..
Human beings can’t change their “ Fitret” overnight!! Otherwise, no students would have failed….
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