India - Air Force Dassault Rafale DH RB005
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Image ID: 1509274
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Operator: India - Air Force - RB005
Aircraft: Dassault - Rafale DH
Airport: India - Yelahanka AFB (VOYK)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2023-2-14 by Vaibhav Shah [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS R5, 1/4000s, f/5.6 at 343mm ISO 400
Photographer's remark
(8.3.2023, 17:06 CET)
The latest addition to the Indian Air Force's Fighter Jet fleet, the Dassault Rafale! The Rafale is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike, and nuclear deterrence missions. It features RBE2-AA AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) Radar and SPECTRA Electronic Warfare Suite. The SPECTRA suite incorporates systems like Radar Warning, Laser Warning, Missile Approach Warning for threat detection, a phased array radar jammer, and a decoy dispenser for threat countering. It also includes a dedicated management unit for data fusion. It can pull -3.6G to +9G in normal conditions. The Rafale has a maximum speed of Mach 1.8 and a combat range of 1850km with normal loadout and a ferry range of 3700km with 3 Drop Tanks. The aircraft has 14 hardpoints and can carry fuel and weapons 2.5 times its weight. The aircraft is armed with MBDA SCALP, Meteor, and MICA missiles. Indian missiles like Astra, Rudram, and Brahmos NG will be integrated with it in the coming years. Rafale is one of the fighter jets in the world with the ability to supercruise, which enables it to fly up to the speed of Mach 1.4 without using its afterburners. India ordered 36 Rafales (28 single-seat and 8 dual-seat) in 2016 in a Government-to-Government deal. The first batch of Rafale jets arrived in India on July 29, 2020. The last Rafale was delivered to IAF in December 2022. The 36 jets are split into two squadrons — one in North India’s Ambala AFS and the other in Eastern India’s Hasimara AFS. While the Indian Air Force operates the F3R variant of the Rafale, the improved F4 standard with India-specific enhancements is on offer to the IAF for its Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) program, which envisages buying and locally building 114 jets. RB005 a 2-seater version of the IAF Rafale is seen here lighting up her Snecma MD88-4E Engines as it takes off from Yelahanka’s Runway 09 during the Aero India 2023 Air show.
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