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FOX THREE” Team Dassault Aviation • Snecma • Thales RAFALE INTERNATIONAL FOXTHREE DASSAULT AVIATION - SNECMA - THALES N°11 PIT STOP RAFALE INTERNATIONAL Maintaining operational combat readiness can be expensive. It’s why Rafale is designed to be fully, quickly serviceable by a reduced ground crew. Compare that to the maintenance requirements of other late-generation fighters. And then carefully calculate the impact Rafale’s better design can have on your total life-cycle costs and dispatch reliability. Rafale. A generation ahead. Rafale. The OMNIROLE fighter. Editorial In the 11th issue of Fox Free, The Rafale Team is proud to report that the Rafale has been engaged in combat for the first time. During the last couple of months, French Navy and French Air Forces Rafales have successfully participated in combat operations over Afghanistan and have provided fire support to NATO ground troops on numerous occasions, scoring direct hits with remarkable accuracy. The “FOX THREE” Team Summary p.3/5 p.6/11 p.12-13 p.14/15 UNFAIR ADVANTAGE The Rafale omnirole fighter’s main air-to-air weapon, the MICA (Missile d’Interception, de Combat et d’Autodéfense, Interception, Combat and Self-Defence Missile), is an Unfair Advantage Engaged in combat With the navy A bright future advanced missile which provides unique capabilities. The fire-and-forget MICA was developed as a multi-target multi-mission multi-wave weapon to replace both the acclaimed short-range, IR-guided Magic 2 and the long-range, radar-guided Super 530D arming the Mirage 2000. PEMA 2b - Crédit photos : F. Robineau • K.Tokunaga • A.Paringaux • HP.Grolleau • Dassault Aviation – Sirpa Air – Sirpa Marine - Print : Aviaplans. FOX This document is not contractual and cannot engage the responsability of the industrial partners in any matter. Dassault Aviation and the industrial partners reserve the right to modify any herein indicated characteristics without prior notice. THREE 3 UNFAIR ADVANTAGE MICA RF firing data are calculated for missile links which enable very numerous priority targets which long-range multiple firings With its Thales AD4A active can be engaged with MICA with an exceptionally high radar homing head, the MICA BVR / air combat active radar probability kill rate, even RF is fully autonomous after seeker missiles shot in quick against hard manoeuvring launch so that a pilot can either succession. With its electronic enemy fighters. This gives the engage several targets simul- scanning antenna, the Thales Rafale a unique combined taneously or immediately turn RBE2 radar is fully capable of situational awareness and away after a shot, reducing tracking another great number combat capability/efficiency the time spent in a potentially dangerous area or denying the enemy aircraft any firing possibility. Its high impulse Protac motor ensures very long range, and the short propulsion time considerably reduces the likelihood of visual detection. The fighter/missile datalink permits beyond-visual range interceptions with a remarkable probability kill percentage. After launch, the MICA climbs to very high level where its aerodynamic configuration minimises drag and signifi- of targets while updating the while considerably reducing cantly increases range. MICAs via the dedicated, aircrew workload, especially In the Rafale, interception and mid-course, secure, radar-to- in complex tactical situations. MICA IR that is fully autonomous for interception tactics. cooling. A vertically launched The extremely manoeuvrable In hard manoeuvring combat, naval/land variant of the MICA IR missile has now the MICA IR allows both lock MICA, the VL MICA, is on offer become the Rafale’s standard before launch or lock after for both naval and land short-range IR-guided air-to- launch attacks to be performed. applications. The naval Interception environment, and the trial enhanced tactical flexibility, air missile. Over the years, In the lock after launch mode, configuration comprises a and Combat programme culminated in the and hampers enemy counter- the successive development off-axis shots and even ‘over- varying number of missiles engagement by two MICAs measure selection, both MICA of various generations of the-shoulder’ interceptions can housed in vertically-mounted Produced by MBDA, the fired from one fighter of two seekers also having excellent infrared sensors for the Matra be undertaken if required to containers for ship defence extremely advanced MICA is widely separated targets using counter-countermeasure 530, Magic 1 and Magic 2 defeat an aircraft approaching against saturation attacks. The capable of both beyond visual countermeasures. capabilities. When under a missiles has allowed French from behind. The IR seeker has land version is adapted to a range interceptions and close-up Two variants of the MICA are Rafale's MICA threat, a target specialists to design a highly- many advantages for such truck, and could prove highly dogfights, a crucial advan- now in service with French Air would have difficulties choosing effective passive, dual-band a long range missile. It has efficient to defend high-value tage for air-to-air combat. Force and Navy Rafales: the between two very different imagery IR seeker for the MICA excellent angular resolution static targets such as air bases Thanks to its thrust vectoring radar-guided MICA RF (Radio- types of defensive tactics. and countermeasure resist- or refineries. Using either IR vanes and long-cord wings, Frequency) and infrared-guided On the Rafale, the MICA ance - thanks to dual band or active RF seekers, the VL this lightweight (246 lb, 112 MICA IR. The interchangeable missiles are fitted to two imagery - and is totally stealthy: MICA system is claimed to be kg) weapon has excellent range seekers ensure a massive reduc- hardpoints under the sides of when used in conjunction with capable of engaging up to and manoeuvrability, even at tion in direct operating and the rear fuselage, and to wing the Rafale’s revolutionary Front eight different targets spread high angle of attack. This trans- maintenance costs as the pylons and wing-tip points. Sector Optronics system, the over a 360 degree arc in less lates into a very high kill airframes, warheads and The fuselage-mounted MICAs passive homing head enables than 12 seconds. The VL MICA probability against hard turning motors are the same for both can be ejected at up to 4 g ‘silent’ interceptions without and the airborne MICA are targets at very long ranges. variants, the only difference whereas the wing-mounted tell-tale radar emissions to fully interchangeable, helping During the development being the seeker. More missiles can be rail-launched IR. Compared with the other betray the fighter’s position; reduce costs of ownership programme, the MICA has significantly, the availability at up to 9 g. IR-guided missiles, the MICA a clear illustration of the when both variants are been tested in very demanding of two guidance systems offers IR has been fitted with a seeker Rafale's multiple covert purchased by a single country. 4 FOXTHREE FOXTHREE 5 RAFALE COMBAT PROVEN The Rafale omnirole fighter was engaged in combat for the first time in March 2007 by French Air Force and French Navy aviators. with a combat load of six A total of six Navy and Air In early October 2006, the French Ministry of Defence was officially launched on 17 November 2006, the Flight testing GBU-12s, three 2000-litre fuel Force Standard F2 Rafales announced an urgent operational requirement for the adop- contract signed with Dassault calling for an entry into tanks, and four Mica air-to-air deployed to Afghanistan, the tion of laser-guided weapons on French Air Force Rafales. service as soon as possible with both the Armée de l’Air and Capitalising on a series of missiles for interception, three Armée de l’Air two-seat The anticipated rise of Taliban activity in Afghanistan in the the Marine Nationale. To cut development time, it had trials already carried out by combat and self-defence. It fighters flying into Dushanbe, spring had led to the decision to fit the Rafale with the 500 been decided not to equip the Rafale with a laser designation Dassault in 2001, the ‘Echo’ took Dassault less than four in Tadzhikistan, on the 12th lbs-class GBU-12 / 22 laser-guided bombs. Standard F2 pod. Instead, the aircrews rely on buddy-lasing, development and test months to deliver the complete of March 2007 while the three Rafales then in service with the Air Force and the Navy the cooperative technique where another fighter holds a laser programme moved forward LGB package to the armed Marine Nationale single-seat were capable of firing Scalp cruise missiles, AASM spot on a target so that it can be struck by weapons dropped very rapidly to comply with forces, including aircraft aircraft had joined the Charles modular stand-off precision weapons and Mica air-to-air from the Rafale. Alternatively, a forward air controller the expected release dates. modifications and armourers de Gaulle’s carrier air group missiles, but it was felt that a GBU-12-class weapon would on the ground - or a suitably trained special forces commando The project was a total suc- training. The Rafale was at Djibouti a few days earlier, prove ideal in Afghanistan where laser designation was - could designate targets for the Rafales. It should be noted, cess, only 15 sorties being declared operational with the bringing the overall number adapted due to stringent rules of engagement. Accordingly, however, that, from early 2009, the Standard F3 Rafales required for the flight laser-guided bombs in early of Rafales in the area to a feasibility study was launched by the Defence Procurement will be fitted with a Damoclès laser designation pod under envelope expansion and the March 2007 after some 15 fifteen, including the nine Agency and Dassault Aviation.
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