Are These Brand New Rafales !

[Ultima Thule]

You've received 05, not 50.

Their Serial starts from RB 001, so it outta go upto RB 005.

I would have imagined the attention the Rafale is getting, you guys would have started a different Topic for each one and named each after your Gods. Oh well.

Here is a pic of it (below)

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@Windjammer

look at the tail sir

 

[Windjammer]

So what ?

maybe some of them have a few hundred hours or something on them and are the planes where the Indians were being trained on. Too much detail lacking here.. low resolution pic, can we identify if it's a trainer or single seat, where are the pics of all the rest of them to compare with.. ever seen a jet up close ? they're pretty messy, naval ones are filthy dirty and even AF and army ones in coastal climates tend to acquire a lot more grease and corrosion/weathering owing to the conditions.

windjammer is losing his touch.. debunked already on the fake Mirage elephant walk and tandem 4 take off threads, and now this really pathetic one.


also, please, nobody fool yourselves.. 36 is just an initial order. There will be a hell of a lot more of these added to IAF and maybe IN in the future.

Get a hold of your self mate, do you even know what the naval aircraft go through and the environment they operate under, still they may look messy but doesn't means their paint peeling off and instead of making pathetic excuses of few hundred flight hours, take a look at Egyptian or Qatari jets.
You can also field 136 Rafales but we all know how the mere mention of Eight new F-16s made Indians froth in the mouth.
As for being debunked, every one has a right to their opinion....pity you who has to drag in unrelated topic to salvage his ego.....

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Looks like the French have robbed the Indians in broad daylight.

 

[ADIL SHERDIL]

After bofor now Rafeal. First it was kickbacks now old jet. My guess is it's on Indian demand just to make statement and boast there people after recent Indo China confrontation. Just like they went to Russia for early delivery of S400

 

[Windjammer]

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Now compare them, it looks that even a panel on the fairing on tail has been replaced on the Indian jet.

 

[HaMoTZeMaS]

The Indian Air Force recently took delivery of five Rafale fighter aircraft.
These are said to be brand new aircraft but compared to French Air Force jets, a close look reveals either a poor or old paint job on IAF aircraft.

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Nice Catch

 

[Daghalodi]

Milk the indian cow

 

[Trailer23]

@Windjammer

 

[Verve]

Now compare them, it looks that even a panel on the fairing on tail has been replaced on the Indian jet.

My 18yrs old S class has better original paint job on this, despite 180k miles on it!

 

[PakFactor]

Lol. Wow, sitting with a client and couldn’t stop laughing.

 

[-=virus=-]

Get a hold of your self mate, do you even know what the naval aircraft go through and the environment they operate under, still they may look messy but doesn't means their paint peeling off and instead of making pathetic excuses of few hundred flight hours, take a look at Egyptian or Qatari jets.
You can also field 136 Rafales but we all know how the mere mention of Eight new F-16s made Indians froth in the mouth.
As for being debunked, every one has a right to their opinion....pity you who has to drag in unrelated topic to salvage his ego.....

Army aviation craft and AF assets (not carrier based) go through almost as much hell being on the sea board.

These will be in service for decades to come anyway, not exactly your army uncle's new luxury sedan.

Besides, even if the French gave the IAF these for now, what difference does it make ?

We don't know the details of the deal, it just means Indian pilots will be trained on them in home conditions now, obviously not going to be seeing any real combat duty anytime too soon.

Makes zero difference either way, the paint thing.. who knows, maybe it was a rushed last coat or something..

there are other things about it that you should be more concerned with and about.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

IAF has put SUs on janitorial duty for Rafaels....

A sad day for the Russians...

As for the "tea" at the PAF baes, it's irrespective of race, color, caste, creed etc....

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

My 18yrs old S class has better original paint job on this, despite 180k miles on it!

For some reasons, Indians are mistakenly made synonymous with being cheap...

The Indians always make the majority in the "return" lanes at the retail stores of my home town...

 

[Muslim Warrior]

The Indian Air Force recently took delivery of five Rafale fighter aircraft.
These are said to be brand new aircraft but compared to French Air Force jets, a close look reveals either a poor or old paint job on IAF aircraft.

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250 million for this ...

 

[Mrc]

May b used jets on emergency order...

Indians seems to have hastened the delivery and its not the original planned. Would have cost them an arm and a limb