Dassault RAFALE in Action at Paris Airshow!! ✈️ Le Bourget [Remastered]

Dassault Rafale Solo Display Team in action, demonstrating the insane agility of this superb fighter aircraft at Paris Airshow!

This was Le Bourget 2013 International Air and Space Salon, it is an old video. Paris Airshow 2023 was held this weekend so I felt the nostalgia hitting hard and thought to remaster this video from ten years ago so you could enjoy it in better image quality and sabilization. Of course, back at the time, we were just getting started with airshow filming, so the quality isn't the best, and we've come a long way since, but I feel it still holds value to be able to see these flights with the improved quality resulting from nowadays video post-processing possibilities. :)

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)

Find more info on the Rafale here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassaul...

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