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    DaGreatRV
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    Quote Originally Posted by fargo View Post
    We certainly would, whether the government will do it is another matter.
    Yeah. Politics and aeronautics.
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    Good pics
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    Quote Originally Posted by DaGreatRV View Post
    Yeah. Politics and aeronautics.

    Tell me about it, you still haven't seen how bad can politics f*ck with aeronautics until you've met the Brazilian Air Force.
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    Navy Rafales join their Air Force brothers.





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    Yeah I love this plane so much
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    couple more


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    laser guided bombs and no laser designator?
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    Quote Originally Posted by easyand View Post
    laser guided bombs and no laser designator?
    Special forces on the ground (or another plane SEM most likely with damocles pod) are in charge to designate target.
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    Laser designator ("Damocles" pod) will come later this year.
    Until then, Rafale will need a third-party designation (Mirage, Etendard, other planes, or troops on ground).
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    Xav, I don't think the SEM use the Damocles pod but the ATLIS, am I wrong ?
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    IIRC it uses ATLIS.
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    All SEMs were up to Standard 4 by the end of 2002, with the "Standard 5" introduced the next year. Standard 5 was intended to provide a "night attack" capability, built around the new Damocles targeting pod. The Damocles not only uses an infrared imager, permitting night operations, but also has higher image resolution, permitting greater standoff range.
    http://www.vectorsite.net/aveten.html

    According to the above source standard 5 was introduced in 2003...

    Toutes ces évolutions ont été rendues possibles grâce à différents programmes de modernisation, qui ont successivement porté les Super Étendard au standard 1, 2 puis 3 et 4 et en ont fait des "SEM", alias "Super Étendard Modernisé". Et déjà se profile à l'Horizon un futur standard 5 qui devra permettre à l'avion de faire bonne figure jusqu'en 2015, date à laquelle il cédera complètement sa place au Rafale. Ce futur standard offrira une capacité nocturne totale au SEM et à ses pilotes, avec la mise en oeuvre d'un pod de désignation laser Damocles couplé à un FLIR pour la navigation nocturne.
    http://www.defense.gouv.fr/marine/de..._modernise_sem
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    My mistake Xav, SEM standard 5 use Damocles Pod
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    Video: Rafale over A'stan
    http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/monde/0,,342...e-combat-.html
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    I would so love to see this plane in the Serbian Air Force....

    does anybody know its price, compared to a Mig-29 (newer/st version), Su-30/35. F-16 52+, Gripen, EF...?
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