Saturday, October 27, 2012

Future Rafale

Air & Cosmos revealed three days ago the new roadmap for the next software update of Rafale.

This will be standard F3-R and is planned for 2018 with :
  • Meteor ;
  • PDL-NG targeting pod (a replacement for Damocles) ;
  • IFF Mode 5/S ;
  • improved Link16 ;
  • Improved SPECTRA ;
  • Improved capabilities for RECO-NG pod (inspired by the intervention in Lybia) ;
  • Improved air-to-ground fire control (inspired by the intervention in Lybia).
 All the fleet will be retrofitted.
Posted by TMor at 1:50:00 PM

2 comments:

  1. EiseOctober 27, 2012 at 4:05 PM

    Which improvment for SPECTRA ? DDM-NG ?
    And what capabilities for the RECO-NG and A2G fire control ? I thought on these points the Rafale was already very good.

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    1. TMorOctober 27, 2012 at 11:29 PM

      It is. We have no details yet, but I remember that just after the lybian conflict, pilots wanted the capability to target something they spotted through RecoNG, directly. This may be a hint...

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