Eurofighter Typhoon vs Dassault Rafale

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Dassault Rafale vs Eurofighter Typhoon When comparing these two European fighters, Eurofighter is a bit better, apparently thanks to a little more advanced avionics and technology, such as Euroradar CAPTOR Radar. Although the Rafale can carry more weapons that are connected to the 14 points of connection (and even nuclear weapons), Eurofighter carries something better weapons, especially in the case of air-to-air missiles. Rafale is armed with air-to-surface MBDA AM-39 Exocet anti-ship missile and MBDA CVS401-Perseus (in the future), while Eurofighter carries AGM-65 Maverick, AGM-88 HARM, Taurus KEPD 350, Storm Shadow / Scalp EG and Brimstone… The advantage of a French fighter jet is that it can carry ASMP-A medium-range nuclear air-to-surface missile that weight 860 kg, and contain TN 81 nuclear warhead with (150 kt or 300 kt of TNT). These two planes are similar in size, appearance and purpose, and Eurofighter is powered with stronger engines with 89 kN of thrust, and this gives it advantage in speed and rate of climb. In Beyond Visual Range combat, they are almost identical… Comments of readers (Feel free to leave a reply on bottom. Your comments can help in making the calculation and change the data. Please without insulting. Currently, all of the data are based on available informations.) 1. With the advent of BVR and AAM……the dogfights have lost significance in air warfare. Eurofighter seems to have a bigger RCS (radar cross section)…..which is a disadvantage in era of missile warfare apart from early detection by radars 2. After considering all these facts, I do wonder that did India did take a wise decision by choosing Rafale over the Eurofighter Typhoon. Also the deal between India and France has gone to another level of expense, which comes out to be more than the double of the initial amount. And when all this is going on, no one seems to be worried that the time is just getting wasted in finalizing the deal, when the India badly needs another air-superiority fighter to complement it’s Sukhoi 30 MKI fleets, in today’s scenario , when it is getting regular threats from it’s neighbors like Pakistan and China. Lets hope for the best. 3. The Eurofighter is primarly an air superiority fighter (with the option to fit for multirole purposes), while the Raphale in the original concept has a major focus in tactical support for ground forces (with the option to fit for dogfighting just in case). This is due to the strategic situation of NATO countries during the cold war: Germany and Italy were directly exposed to a Soviet invasion thus requiring to struggle in the air against Russian fighters (particulary considering that without air superiority you can’t support your ground forces neither defend them against enemy strikes), while France was more covered and had a primary goal in supporting its forces deployed in Germany. Besides, the Raphale is also designed for being embarked over carriers, while the Eurofighter is solely a ground based airplane. 4. Eurofighter is over… production will be stop before 2020 and now there are a lot of technicals problems… 5. The Rafale is a better bomber AND and a better dogfighter. Even F-16 of F/A-18 have good chances to defeat typhoons in a moke fight. Lies about the superiority of the Typhoon vanished when they had to face reality. Typhoon stays a good interceptor and there is no surprise with that, it was designed for a such role. 6. I don’t know much (if anything) about the technical side of aeronautics, but from what I can see is that the only reason the Rafale was predicted the winner of a guns only WVR dogfight is because it has the bigger gun. the EF has maneuverability and thrust-to-weight ratio advantage. meaning that it can get into position better than the Rafale, it is no good having the better gun if you don’t get a chance to shoot it. 7. The decision from the French to pull out of the EF project so as to build the Rafale may not be all that bad a move. Yes, the EF is a better jet, but the Rafale is cheaper to build and possibly maintain. Not to mention the significant industrial advantage the French get from going it alone. 8. As of 2014 everyone knows that Rafale is much more efficient than Typhoon which was humiliated in ATLC and Lybia by Rafale. Not even talking about upcoming Rafale F3R standard. Rafale weapons payload is 9.5 tons and its manoeuvrability and avionics are superior. Actually the only area where Typhoon is better is interception, cause it is a faster aircraft. But once dogfight begins, you better be in the Rafale.