Rafale Aircraft

Make PDF

Features of Rafale Aircraft

• The Rafale jets, known for air-superiority and precision strikes, are India’s first major acquisition of fighter planes in 23 year after the Sukhoi jets were imported from Russia.
• Rafale is a fourth-generation jet with both twin generation engines and delta wing. This fighter jet also carries semi-stealth capabilities that can execute nuclear attacks.
• The Rafale fighter jet is a multirole fighter aircraft, designed and manufactured by Dassault Aviation of France.
• The omnirole aircraft comes with a host of weapons and can perform a variety of functions such as aerial reconnaissance, ground support, in-depth strike, anti ship strike and nuclear deterrence. 
• It is equipped with buddy-buddy refueling, where one aircraft can lend its fuel to another, while still in flight.
• The Rafale jet is capable of carrying a range of potent weapons. European missile maker MBDA’s Meteor beyond visual range air-to-air missile and Scalp cruise missile will be the mainstay of the weapons package of the Rafale jets.
• Scalp missiles are precision long range ground attack missiles, capable of taking out targets within a radius of 300km. 
• Meteor is a next generation beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) designed to revolutionise air-to-air combat and has a range of over 100km and a top speed of Mach 4. 
• It could carry 6 AASM missiles at a time and each of those missiles have GPS and imaging infrared terminal guidance. It can accurately hit a target with an accuracy of 10m. 
• It is also equipped with RBE2 passive electronically scanned radar developed by Thales on board. It has look down and shoot down capabilities that can track upto 8 targets at the same time and prioritize accordingly. 

Make PDF