F-35 Lightning II vs Dassault Rafale

Another oldie but goldie RAFALE M info 4 page PDF of article from 2019 attached.

MISSION CLEMENCEAU
Jun 2019 Joris van Boven & Alex van Noye

"The French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was back at sea in March [2019] with its air wing embarked for Operation 'Chammal', involving Rafale Ms in action against the so-called Islamic State. REPORT AND PHOTOS Joris van Boven and Alex van Noye..."

Source: Combat Aircraft Magazine June 2019 Volume 20 Number 6

Dassault Aviation and finnish VARJO teamed to work on Augmented and Virtual reality :
https://varjo.com/blog/case-dassault-av ... -training/

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UK / France - Lancaster House exercise between French Air Force Rafale F3R and British RAF F-35 a few days ago.

Dassault Aviation and finnish VARJO teamed to work on Augmented and Virtual reality :
https://varjo.com/blog/case-dassault-av ... -training/

Nice information, thank you! Nice to see that Finnish companies are involved with this kind of activities. I know Varjo has really good products, probably one of the very best in their field.

Lockheed Martin also uses their products for simulation systems:
https://varjo.com/blog/prepar3d-adds-su ... -trainers/

https://www.prepar3d.com/p3d-developer- ... 04/116357/

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Rafales coo, "Look at me... sleek, sexy, beeyooootiful curves..."

Panthers growl, "I'm hungry, let's eat something..."

I saw this on another site. I haven't been following it much. It's said to be $125m turn key.

France begins backfilling its Rafale fleet after selling some to Greece
Contracts to Dassault Aviation, Safran (the engine manufacturer) and Thales (the electronics) will be sent out by the DGA procurement agency in the next few days. While no price tag was given during Parly’s announcement, Trappier has previously said one fully equipped fighter costs around 100 million euros, or $121 million, which would put the total package at just under $1.5 billion.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/euro ... ium=social