واقعيا و بتجرد من الكلام العاطفي في يومنا هذا تعتبر الرفال أقوى مقاتلة موجودة في الساحة على الإطلاق، لكن عيبها في تفوقها حيث أن الفرنسيين أرادوا إبهار العالم بتقنيتها العالية جدا لكن نسوا شيئا مهما ألا و هو المستقبل و برامج التطوير الضعيفة جدا مقارنة مع باقي المصنعين العالميين من أمريكا روس و أوروبا ... و حتى الصين التي دخلت المجال حديثا....
واضف على ذلك , فشل فريق التفاوض وفريق التسويق وتداخل الادوار بين الرئاسة ووزارة الدفاع وكثير من العوامل الاخرى ..
كثرة تقنياتها ادى لسعرها الغالي ..
بخصوص المستقبل وبرامج التطوير .. هم متحفظون بعض الشيء بانتظار ان يأتي الزبون المنتظر ليموّل برامج التطوير بحسب احتياجاته .. يعللون ذلك بانهم راضون بمستوى الرافال الحالي وليسوا بحاجة ماسة لتطويرات كبيرة في الوقت الراهن ..
طااال الامد , وعندما رأت داسو ووزارة الدفاع الفرنسية هذا الوضع.. قامت باعتماد المستوى الجديد للترانش الثالث ان صح التعبير
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France’s Rafale Fighters: Looking for Love…
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2013 French Air Force
Jan 10/13: F3R. French defense minister Jean-Yves le Drian hands Dassault Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier the Rafale F3R development contract, during a visit to Dassault Aviation’s Merignac plant. The contract, which is reported to be worth about EUR 1 billion ($1.32 billion), had actually been ratified by the DGA on Dec 30/13.
حركة تبيّن لزبائن الرافال المحتملين , ان فرنسا تقف خلف مقاتلتها وستمضي بها في برامج تطويرها ( وهي التي تطوّرت اصلا من المعيار F-1 وصولا للF-2 وصولا للـ F-3 ومن ثم تطوير الـF-3R )
هنا نبذة عن الرافال بانواعها وترانشاتها المختلفة :
Rafale Variants: Types and Tranches
Dassault: Power of One
The Rafale comes in several broad types, and also comes in different capability tranches.
Carrier-capable Rafales are single-seat fighters, and are referred to as Rafale Ms. They will become the French Navy’s only fighters, replacing the F-8P Crusader fighter, Etendard IVP reconnaissance aircraft, and Super Etendard strike aircraft. They feature the usual set of carrier modifications, including lengthened and strengthened landing gear, strengthened airframe and arrester hook for landings, and carrier landing electronics. The front-center pylon is deleted on this version, in order to make room for that robust landing gear.
French Air Force Rafales come in 2 broad types: the preferred 2-seat Rafale B, and the single-seat Rafale C. They will eventually replace the SEPECAT Jaguar, Dassault’s Mirage F1, and most of the Mirage 2000 family in French service.
Rafale & Mirage 2000D
over Afghanistan
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Within those designations, Dassault’s Rafales also come in capability tranches that are common across all versions.
Initial Rafale F1s are limited to air superiority missions, and included only Rafale-Ms intended as urgent replacements for the French carrier force’s 1950s/60s era
air superiority fighters. Rafale F1s are capable fighters, and represented a huge upgrade for the Marine Nationale. Even so, they lack the wide weapons fit of 4+ generation counterparts like the JAS-39 Gripen or modern F-15 Strike Eagles, the optimized cockpit of EADS’ Eurofighter, or the price advantages of Sukhoi’s SU-30 family. Surviving Rafale-M F1s will be upgraded to the F3 configuration.
Rafale F2. Most of the Rafales currently in service are built to the F2 standard, which adds the ability to carry and use precision ground attack weapons. This standard includes 2-seat air force Rafale-Bs, single-seat Rafale-Cs, and naval Rafale-Ms. Key additions include radar ground attack and terrain-following modes, carriage of laser-guided bombs and Storm Shadow/ Scalp cruise missiles, MICA IR missile capability using the OSF IRST sensor, a Link 16 datalink, and a buddy tanker pod for Rafale Ms. The biggest thing the F2 standard lacks is integration of independent laser targeting capability, which is why French Rafales over Afghanistan had to operate
Super Etendard and Mirage 2000D fighters.
ASMP-A4 on Rafale
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Rafale F3. Since 2008, all Rafales have been delivered in the F3 standard. Initial changes added the ability to carry French ASMP-A air-launched nuclear missiles, allowing the Rafale to replace the Mirage 2000N in that nuclear strike role. Other modifications include full integration with the Reco NG reconnaissance pod, implementation of all currently planned modes for the RBE2 radar, antiship attack with the Exocet or follow-on ANF, and support for an improved tanker pack.
Further changes were forthcoming within F3. Full integration with Thales’
surveillance and laser targeting pod was executed, and Damocles-equipped Rafales were used over Libya in 2011. The radar took a quantum leap forward as of Rafale #C137, with Thales’ RBE2-AA AESA radar replacing the mechanically-scanned RBE2 array on previous aircraft. The new radar has hundreds of active T/R modules, and involves about 400,000 lines of code all by itself. This compares to about 2 million lines of code for the entire aircraft’s avionics.
Nuclear ASMP-A capability is irrelevant to exports, but the addition of an AESA radar and full independent precision strike capability will go a long way toward making the Rafale more competitive with challengers like American F-16/15/18s, Saab’s JAS-39NG Gripen, EADS’ Eurofighter Typhoon, and the oncoming F-35 program.
Thales Inside
Rafale F3Rs features software enhancements to make full use of the RBE2-AA radar, Meteor long range air-to-air missile integration, SBU-64 dual mode laser/GPS AASM smart bomb integration, improvements to Thales SPECTRA self-defence system, and an Identification Friend or Foe interrogator/transponder with full Mode-5/Mode-S-compatibility. As of September 2013, the DGA started referring to these planes as the 4th tranche, and January 2014 saw full commitment to develop all of these upgrades for fielding by 2018.
Efforts to include MBDA’s Meteor long-range air-air missiles are ongoing, but it won’t be ready until 2018. That will make Rafale the last European fighter to integrate the Meteor, about 3-4 years later than the JAS-39 Gripen. It will also be the only fighter with a 1-way Meteor datalink instead of a 2-way link.
The Rafale remains behind in 2 other areas.
Its new Damocles surveillance and targeting pod’s 320 x 240 infrared array is far behind other international offerings, even with an architecture that effectively gives 640 x 480 resolution. Current performance is adequate, but this gap will continue to widen until the improved PDL-NG surveillance and targeting pod’s debut in 2018 with an effective 1280 x 1040 array. That’s about the same as some current offerings, so by 2018, the Rafale is likely to modernize from a gross competitive disadvantage in a critical technology to a less egregious competitive disadvantage.
The 2nd gap is even more consequential. While the Rafale has a wide Head Up Display, a Helmet Mounted Display that would allow the Rafale to take full advantage of its wide-borseight MICA missiles remains the type’s most important
, even after F3R.
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هذا بخصوص الوضع الحالي وتبيان كيف انها تطوّرت من الترانش 1 وصولا للترانش الاخير ( بمعنى انها مضت في برامج تطويريه مبرمجة للرافال فعليا )
في نفس الوقت ... تقوم المواقع المختلفة وبعض المجلات المتخصصة المتابعة لشؤون وزارة الدفاع الفرنسية وداسو بنشر خطط برامج الرافال القادمة :
هنا المعيار F3-O4T والمعيار الطموح ( برنامج تحديث منتصف العمر او MLU 2025 )
First, the Rafale F3-O4T (former Rafale roadmap) : 60 fighters ordered (25C, 25B, 10M) deliveries from 2013 to 2019
- RBE-2 AESA : Final evaluation in June-July with a qualification expected before the end of 2011
- DDM-NG : new missile warning receiver compatible with a future active IR jammer.
- OSF-IT : improved front sector optronic suite
- Damocles-XF : add a sharper TV channel to the current IR channel for better identification in urban zones. Should be introduced in 2016.
- M88-2-E4 engine : extended service life and 2 to 4% less consumption
- Export option : 9 tonnes M88 engine. Require a 1.5 cm air intake enlargement and material change to keep low RCS. Proposed to the UAE.
2025 MLU :
- RCS improvements
- Conformal AESA : increase the radar coverage and seen as a better solution than a single moving antenna
- Thrust Vector Control for the M88 engine
- Sat Com system
- UCAV control system
وخطط لرافال Stealth بحاويات داخلية وطلاء RAM وفتحات محرك معاد هندستها الخ..
في العدد الاخير من مجلة Air & Cosmos الشهيرة , جرى عرض عدة نقاط حول الرافال سأضع ابرزها
المتطلبات الاماراتية في الرافال
UAE Rafale specifications:
- RBE2 AESA with 14 kW power instead of 9,6 (+ GMTT / GMTI modes)
رادار RBE2 AESA بقوة 14 كيلو واط بدل 9,6 ( مع اضافة مود GMTT و GMTI )
- Sniper pod
بود التهديف ( سنايبر )
- New configuration payload with more Exocet or Scalp-EG
كونفيجريشن جديد يتضمن زيادة عدد الاكزوكست او سكالب اي جي
- Hakeem guidance kit (like Mirage 2000/9)
عدة توجيه حكيم ( كالموجودة على الميراج-9)
- Addition of a low band jamming system (like Mirage 2000/9)
اضافة نظام تشويش على الموجات المنفخفضة ( كالموجود على الميراج-9)
- More powerful central computer.
كمبيوتر مركزي اكثر قوة
- No 9t engines
لا محرك 9 طن
Integration of the Brimstone on Rafale would be dropped because of integration cost considered too high.
دمج البريمستون على الرافال سيتم الاستغناء عنه بسبب كلفة الدمج والتي اعتبرت مرتفعة جدا.
Price remains the main stumbling block.
السعر يبقى العائق الاساسي
المصدر كما ورد اعلاه من اير اند كوزموس ونقلتها المواقع المهتمه باخبار الرافال التالية :
ايضا في ذات المصدر ورد تأكيد جديد على فوز الرافال على التايفون والجريبين في سويسرا ( chart جديد )
وصورة تبين قدرة الرافال على حمل 3 بلاك شاهين ( سكالب اي جي ) او عدد 6 ميكا معتمدا على نوع الكونفيجريشن المراد وضعه على الرافال :
وصورة مثيرة تبين المستقبل التخيلي الاقرب للرافال ( خزانات وقود كتفية , طلاء شبحي , حاويات اسلحة تساعد على الخفاء , وفتحات هواء محرك معاد تصميمها )
Future Rafale with
CFT, stealth cocoons and redesigned air inlet
مقتطفات + مصدر على التقرير السويسري المسرّب وفيه توقيع قائد السلاح الجوي السويسري ( دحضا لاي تهم تزوير في الموضوع )
وبقية التقرير كاملا على الرابط التالي :
الموضوع مفتوح للنقاش واتمنى اثراؤه بما يفيد وتقبلوا تحياتي
الرافال بتطويرات جديدة
كاميكازي الامارات عن تطويرها
