DASSAULT RAFALE, Crazy Agile Flights! ✈️ MAKS 2013 [Remastered]

Dassault Rafale Solo Display Team showing off the great agility of this superb fighter at MAKS 2013 International Air and Space Salon.

Back in the day my footage was quite shaky but now I have better means of stabilization and color grading so I wanted to resurrect a few videos and give them a bit of polish... Hope you'll appreciate the effort! :)

The Dassault Rafale (French pronunciation: ​[ʁafal], literally meaning "gust of wind", and "burst of fire" in a more military sense) 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. The Rafale is referred to as an "omnirole" aircraft by Dassault.

In the late 1970s, the French Air Force and French Navy were seeking to replace and consolidate their current fleets of aircraft. In order to reduce development costs and boost prospective sales, France entered into an arrangement with the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain to produce an agile multi-purpose "Future European Fighter Aircraft" (which would become the Eurofighter Typhoon). Subsequent disagreements over workshare and differing requirements led to France's pursuit of its own development programme. Dassault built a technology demonstrator which first flew in July 1986 as part of an eight-year flight-test programme, paving the way for the go-ahead of the project. The Rafale is distinct from other European fighters of its era in that it is almost entirely built by one country, involving most of France's major defence contractors, such as Dassault, Thales and Safran.

Many of the aircraft's avionics and features, such as direct voice input, the RBE2 AA active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and the optronique secteur frontal infrared search and track (IRST) sensor, were domestically developed and produced for the Rafale programme. Originally scheduled to enter service in 1996, the Rafale suffered significant delays due to post-Cold War budget cuts and changes in priorities. The aircraft is available in three main variants: Rafale C single-seat land-based version, Rafale B twin-seat land-based version, and Rafale M single-seat carrier-based version. Introduced in 2001, the Rafale is being produced for both the French Air Force and Navy.

The Rafale was developed as a modern jet fighter with a very high level of agility; Dassault chose to combine a delta wing with active close-coupled canard to maximize manoeuvrability. The aircraft is capable of withstanding from −3.6g to 9g (10.5g on Rafale solo display and a maximum of 11g can be reached in case of emergency). The Rafale is an aerodynamically unstable aircraft and uses digital fly-by-wire flight controls to artificially enforce and maintain stability. The aircraft's canards also act to reduce the minimum landing speed to 115 knots (213 km/h); while in flight, airspeeds as low as 15 knots (28 km/h) have been observed during training missions. According to simulations by Dassault, the Rafale has sufficient low speed performance to operate from STOBAR-configured aircraft carriers, and can take off using a ski-jump with no modifications.

SPECS

Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 15.27 m
Wingspan: 10.90 m
Height: 5.34 m
Wing area: 45.7 m2
Empty weight: 9850 kg - 10600 kg
Gross weight: 15000 kg
MTOW: 24500 kg
Fuel capacity:
· 4700 kg internal for single-seater
· 4400 kg internal for two-seater
Maximum fuel: 16550 L (5750 L internal + 2300 L in 2x conformal tanks + 8500 L in 5 drop tanks)
Powerplant: 2 × Snecma M88-4e turbofans
· 50.04 kN thrust each (dry)
· 75 kN thrust each (with afterburner)

PERFORMANCE

Maximum speed:
· 1912 km/h / Mach 1.8 at high altitude
· 1390 km/h / Mach 1.1 at low altitude
Supercruise: Mach 1.4
Combat range: 1850 km on penetration mission with three tanks (5700 L combined), two SCALP-EG and two MICA AAMs
Ferry range: 3700 km with 3 drop tanks
Service ceiling: 15835 m
g limits: +9 −3.6 (+11 in emergencies)
Rate of climb: 304.8 m/s
Wing loading: 328 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 0.988 (100% fuel, 2 EM A2A missile, 2 IR A2A missile)

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[zovslavsforever]

The air intake of the Rafael looks so much more consistent and aerodynamic than the abrupt one of the typhoon! It enhances the appearance a great deal

[zovslavsforever]

Wish we could see an international MAKS airshow again

[ArthurRC]

Even if I know by heart…I always love to watch the RSD 🥰🥰🥰 and nice framing my man !!!

[Sub___Zero]

*The 11G fighter*
Proud we have it in Hellenic Air Force !

PS. Although i wish we had also : Su-35S, Su-30SM, Su-57.

[nurnberg]

Croatia ordered a couple of them, but the price has jumped by 300 million dollars from the day of purchase to now, it is not a fleet but 5.6 pieces. .
And he is taken down by a $10, 000 missile. Interestingly, in the middle of the EU, the average salary of citizens is 500 dollars

[petertoth]

Dassault Rafale is an Country Pet Fighter no more. SU-35S has 30 targets simultan that is 30 Rafale destroyed. XD