PARIS: Rafale's F3R update on target after
latest tests
21 JUNE, 2017 SOURCE: FLIGHTGLOBAL.COM BY:
CRAIG HOYLE PARIS
Flight test activities involving two key
elements of the Dassault Rafale's future F3R operating standard have recently
been conducted at DGA defence procurement agency sites.
A final live guided firing with an MBDA Meteor
beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile was conducted at the Biscarrosse
facility in southwest France. This was "performed against an aerial target
located at a great distance, and immediately followed by a simulated [MBDA]
Mica missile fired against a different target", the DGA says.
"The DGA describes the combined Meteor and Mica test as
"representative of the new capacities made possible by the association of
Meteor and the [Thales] RBE2" active electronically scanned array radar."
"Meanwhile, Thales's Talios laser designation pod has
undergone its third and penultimate series of tests with the Rafale. During
flights conducted from the Istres test centre, the sensor demonstrated
"remarkable accuracy in the extraction of target co-ordinates, and the
high quality of the images produced", the DGA says. Work included
assessing the system's performance in a close air-support scenario and against
moving targets, and in urban, rural, maritime and mountainous environments."
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