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Indian Air Force is currently having around 1400 Aircraft, leaving Sukhoi 30mki, Mirage 2000 and Mig 29 behind, All of them are old and outdated, so the UPA government at 2004 decided to retire some of them, and decided to buy more Mirage 2000 fighter jets from Dassault (due to the outstanding contribution of Mirage 2000 in 1999 Kargil War).
- The French-made Rafale fighter is a high-precision medium-sized multi-role fighter. It is said that this is one of the most modern 4.5-generation aircraft. It has the ability to carry multiple weapons and deliver them accurately. The construction of the Rafale fighter can ensure the survivability of the airborne system itself.
- Rafale has air-to-air refueling capabilities.
It can refuel another aircraft in buddy mode. The Rafale for IAF has been manufactured based on India Specific Enhancements
The government gave the order to the french company Dassault aviation for the Mirage 2000, but dassault said that they have stopped the mass production of mirage 2000, and they told IAF to buy upgraded version of mirage 2000, the RAFALE.
Then Indian Air Force Decided to test out the competitors of rafale too, so they released tender. after some time Russia offered their MIG-35, Sweden offered their JAS39 Gripen, USA offered F-16 viper and F18 super hornet, France offered Rafale, And (Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain) Offered Eurofighter Typhoon.They all were tested on certain parameters, after all The french Rafale was selected.
- The Rafale fighter jets have several India-specific modifications. These include
- Israeli helmet-mounted displays,
- Low band jammers,
- Radar warning receivers,
- Infra-red search,
- Tracking systems,
- 10-hour flight data recording among others.bhul
coming to the point of the question.. here are some of the mind blowing facts about Rafale..
- It is a multirole fighter, Twin engine, one or two seaters, canard delta winged aircraft.
- it has a max speed of 2000 km/hr .
- it is powered by French Snecma m88 turbofan jet engine.
- The French word RAFALE means Gust of wind in English.
- Weighing 9500Kgs it can lift the weapons around 9500kgs.
- It doesn’t require the Runway of more than 400 metres
- it has a vertical velocity of 305 m/s.
- it has automatic Magnesium flare system.
- Spectra system: Developed by dassault , this fully automatic electronics security system has lot of features, like if the enemy radar sends the radio signals to the air, the Spectra system constantly reads this signals, notes the pattern of the signals, and after that it emits the same pattern of waves via the Emitter to the enemy radar, so enemy radar can not catch the object (rafale in this case). That is why its design is not STEALTH, but it can play the role of stealth fighters, Just No other plane in this world have a Feature like this.
- The Spectra System is so costly that it costs 30% of the total plane.
- Rafale has a scanning range of 145km, this is actually low, but here is a pluspoint : the radar can work with more than 2 targets, and it is Impossible to jam for enemy.
- Rafale has a combat radius of 1800km, which no other fighter plane have in this world.
- Rafale will be featured with Voice recognition operated controls.
- It is equipped with Meteor missile as well as ..
- India is the fourth country, after Egypt, France, and Qatar, to bolster its fleet with the Rafale fighter jets. Rafale is also the second French fighter, Indian Air Force will have in its fleet. IAF already has Mirage 2000 which is also French-made.
- 5 Rafale jets landed in Ambala. Rafale aircraft would certainly provide the potent air defence that IAF required. He termed Rafale aircraft "by far the most potent platform for India's air defence".
- a cannon with 30mm diameter 125 rockets.
- 8 Air to Air Magic missile.
- 4 A2A Mica Missile .
- 7 A2A AMRAAM missile.
- 5 Antiship penguin Mk3 missile.
- 3 Antiship harpoon missile.
- 4 A2S Maverick missile
- 2 Scalp Stormshadow cruise missile.
- 9 GBU laser guided bombs.
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