I watched the first 3 videos in the Future Dogfights series, and well, I'm irritated by what I think would be a couple of inaccuracies:
- I don't there's any real program to create the B-1R missile truck. If anything, F-15C+ "Golden Eagles" would be the ones serving that role - at least they can maneuver.
- How the heck are the Rafales' missiles so strangely inaccurate? The B-1Rs should have been shot down - I mean, 6 Rafales are shooting at them. AFAIK, Rafales would be using Meteors, which I doubt would be so crappy. Maybe those missiles are MICAs, which I don't know much about.
- Which country would be using a mixed flight of Su 30MKIs(Indian/Russian) and Dassault Rafales(French, hasn't been able to win any export deals)? And MiG 29s. The only country that would possibly be using this combination is India, if the Rafale wins the 126-fighter deal.
- I don't know that much about air combat, but I think the F-22s should have fired Sidewinders once at their max effective range instead of passing the Rafales and then beginning a turning fight. Or, they should've flanked the Rafale flight at BVR and popped up some distance behind them before closing in and ambushing them.
- When the F-22 tries to pull the Cobra maneuver, the Rafale pilot gets a good chance to scrag it with it's cannon. This is conveniently forgotten in the video, as if the Rafale didn't have a cannon.
- The Rafales had to be the ones that survived the B-1R missile barrage - when Su 30MKIs are probably the more maneuverable of the two, and possibly more maneuverable than the Raptor. Another convenient Deus Ex Machina.
It seems to be just a souped-up Sci Fi show with some degree of realism, some degree of fiction for the heck of being cool, and some degree of patriotic fervor.
- I don't there's any real program to create the B-1R missile truck. If anything, F-15C+ "Golden Eagles" would be the ones serving that role - at least they can maneuver.
- How the heck are the Rafales' missiles so strangely inaccurate? The B-1Rs should have been shot down - I mean, 6 Rafales are shooting at them. AFAIK, Rafales would be using Meteors, which I doubt would be so crappy. Maybe those missiles are MICAs, which I don't know much about.
- Which country would be using a mixed flight of Su 30MKIs(Indian/Russian) and Dassault Rafales(French, hasn't been able to win any export deals)? And MiG 29s. The only country that would possibly be using this combination is India, if the Rafale wins the 126-fighter deal.
- I don't know that much about air combat, but I think the F-22s should have fired Sidewinders once at their max effective range instead of passing the Rafales and then beginning a turning fight. Or, they should've flanked the Rafale flight at BVR and popped up some distance behind them before closing in and ambushing them.
- When the F-22 tries to pull the Cobra maneuver, the Rafale pilot gets a good chance to scrag it with it's cannon. This is conveniently forgotten in the video, as if the Rafale didn't have a cannon.
- The Rafales had to be the ones that survived the B-1R missile barrage - when Su 30MKIs are probably the more maneuverable of the two, and possibly more maneuverable than the Raptor. Another convenient Deus Ex Machina.
It seems to be just a souped-up Sci Fi show with some degree of realism, some degree of fiction for the heck of being cool, and some degree of patriotic fervor.
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