Libya, Rafale stats

Defense journalist, Jean Dominique Merchet, has published some interresting statistics concerning the Rafale missions in Libya :

Weapon specialists load a GBU on the Rafale M23

• 3 months of non stop operation
• more than 700 sorties
• 3800 flight hours
• 5h30 of average mission time
• up to 28 Rafale engaged at the same time
• several Rafale have loged more than130 flight hours in one month (one of them has even reached 140h in a month)

Weapon specialists prepare a scalp cruise missile

weapons fired :

• 10 scalps
• 182 AASM bombs
• 116 GBU
• 300 recce sorties