Rafale is considered the aircraft that will put the Aegean guards in a new era. Circular, with much greater maneuvering skills, equipped with weapons that will give the Icarus advantage, Rafale is a attraction for top guns Greek pilots and fear for opponents.
Rafale further improves the balance of air forces in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, as they increase the possibility of PA. To try in a wider range and threaten Turkish fighters remotely, before they are even perceived by the neighbor's aviation.
Another important element is that Rafale will be fully interoperable with the F-16s upgraded to Viper, but also to the future acquisition of the F-35s. The addition of this aircraft to the Hellenic Air Force provides it with strategic potential that has not been resident. This is due to their extensive autonomy, which reaches 920 nautical miles (1700 km) with complete internal fuel (4,750 kg) and three outer fuel tanks of 2000 liters each.
Rafale's big advantage, apart from its electronics, is the multitude of weapons he can launch, with the first of course the Meteor air-to-air rocket. He is state -of -the -art, and even the French Air Force has received him for the last one and a half years. It goes very far, at high speed and involves targets at multiple distances from the common rockets.
The Hellenic Air Force (HAF), sending a message of deterrence and power, officially announced the air-to-air missile-to-range information information, which he bought along with the Rafale fighter aircraft.
It has a range of 200 kilometers, weighing 190 kg, 3.65 meters long, 178mm diameter and 4+ Mach speed, and has an active radar and has much more advanced features than AIM-20 AMRAAM, which is the BVraam standard of airline NATO forces.
The Meteor rocket, which stays in the air for much longer thanks to the Ramjet propulsion system, has almost 3 times the range of the AIM-1220 rocket.
Technical Characteristics/Performance
- War head: High Explosive Blast Fragmentation
- Range: 200 km
- Weight: 190 kg
- Length: 3.65 m
- Diameter: 17.8 cm
- Speed: ˃4 Mach
- Aircraft Type: Rafale
The combination of upgrading the existing Greek F-16 fleet (according to Lockheed Martin, Greece will then have the most advanced F-16s in Europe) in combination with Rafale, it will give Greece a remarkable quality advantage and ensure the Air Force domination in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
With the completion of the F-16 upgrade program at the Viper level and the enhanced 332 Squadron "Geraki" with the 24 Rafale F3R, the fighters that will exchange network-centric data through Link 16 and the AESA radar, will be 108. One Significant power with many additional assets offered by the multitude of sensors they carry.
Ramjet ASN4G Rocket
Given the delay in the SCAF (Future Air Combat System) program and the risks that it is likely to face, from now until its launch (by 2040, if it is very optimistic), France should develop a new Rafale standard for Guarante the continuation of the airborne component of its nuclear deterrence, which will be based on the Ramjet ASN4G ultrasonic rocket in the next decade.
According to foreign media, ASN4G will be incorporated into NGF (SCAF new generation fighter jet) ten to fifteen years after its launch, according to Rafale's F5, "which obliges us to show for this device a Specific requirement in terms of ambition, so that its ability to penetrately remain reliable, at least until 2060, "he says.
According to General Stéphane Mille, leader of Staff SA, the F4 standard will be the first generation of connectivity and the F5 will be the second generation, which will provide safer connectivity.
When the F5 standard comes out, the plane will be very different. The radar, electronic countermeasures and the computer required for connectivity will have been modified. However, computational abilities for the processing of hundreds of thousands of information require wiring that rafale as we know today is not capable of supporting.
