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The
combat aircraft Rafale at Paris Air Show / Le Bourget 2011 |
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| Tuesday,
June 21, 2011, 08:51 PM |
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| Incredible
flight demonstration of the French combat aircraft Dassault
Rafale at Paris Air Show 2011. |
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The
French Dassault RAFALE multirole fighter aircraft should
be omnipresent at Le Bourget PAS 2011 as it has been shortlisted
as a final competitor versus the Typhoon Eurofighter for
the Indian MMRCA tender which will make a decision on the
purchase of up to 126 multirole jetfighters. Furthermore,
the French aircraft is still a contender in the Brazilian
bid request, and it has been shortlisted in the Swiss NAC
tender. The United Arab Emirates are also interested by
the French combat aircraft Dassault Rafale.
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French
combat aircraft Rafale Dassault at Paris Air Show 2011
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On
19 March 2011, French Rafale combat aircraft conducted
its first combat missions over Libya in Opération
Harmattan, in support of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1973, being the first to attack and destroy
heavy artillery units that had reached the outskirts of
Benghazi.
On 24 March 2011 it was reported that a Rafale shot down
a Libyan Air Force G-2/Galeb light ground attack/trainer
jet. A few hours later an armed forces spokesman specified
that the aircraft was destroyed on the runway with an
AASM air-to-ground missile just after it had landed.
Thanks to its versatility, its adaptability and its ability
to meet all air mission requirements, the RAFALE is the
“poster child” transformational fighter which
provides a way forward to air forces confronted to the
requirement of doing “more” with “less”,
in an ever-changing strategic and economic environment.
Of a moderate size, yet extremely powerful, superbly agile
and very discrete, the latest type of combat aircraft
from DASSAULT AVIATION does not only integrate the largest
and most modern range of sensors, it also multiplies their
efficiency with a technological breakthrough, the “multi-sensor
data fusion”.
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French
combat aircraft Rafale Dassault in flight demonstration
at Paris Air Show 2011 |
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