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Charles
de Gaulle with
t h e f i r s t s i x
R a f a l e p i l o t s
and their aircraft.
During
Trident d’Or,
Flottille 12F personnel
trained
and evaluated
t h e f i g h t e r ’s
weapon system. They encountered
AV-8B+ Harriers and
F/A-18 Hornets, simulating
interception profiles. Both the
Thales RBE2 electronic scanning
radar and the Spectra
electronic warfare suite were
extensively tested, and performed
flawlessly. The Rafales
were flown in various configurations,
sometimes heavily
loaded with external fuel tanks.
To extend mission duration,
the Rafales took advantage
of the buddy-buddy refuelling
capabilities offered by the carrier-
borne Super Etendard
Modernisé fighters. In-flight
refuellings from French Air
F o r c e B o e i n g C - 1 3 5 F R
Stratotankers were also performed.
Additionally, French
naval aviators demonstrated
the Rafale hot refuelling procedure
during the exercise.
At the time of writing, seven
Rafales had been delivered
to the French Navy, and ten
pilots had converted to the
type. Deliveries are continuing,
and, by mid-2002, Flottille
12F will be fully operational
with a complement of 10
Rafales.
RAFALE :
MULTINATIONAL SUCCESS
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Maintenance VoiceMagics
Thanks to advanced technologies,
the Rafale’s supportability
will be boosted by about
30 percent compared with that
of the Mirage 2000. Dassault
engineers have developed a
very simple fighter with fixed
air intakes and no dedicated
airbrake, helping reduce maintenance
requirements.
«The Rafale has been conceived
for naval operations, and even
the Air Force ground-based
variants benefit from the naval
characteristics: rugged airframe,
excellent corrosion protection,
and aircraft-carrier electromagnetic
compatibility»,
explains Xavier Labourdette,
International Support Manager.
The Rafale has been built to
last, and features a fully automatic,
non-dedicated structural
monitoring system which provides
individual follow-up of
airframe components, facilitating
fatigue index surveillance
throughout the 7,000 flying
hour service life.
Fault detection is a key aspect
of modern aircraft maintainability,
and all Rafale systems
are monitored in real-time by
the IHUMS - Integrated Health
and Usage Monitoring System
- which ensures clean and unambiguous
failure detection. This
unique and fully automatic monitoring
system helps reduce
turnaround times by easing troubleshooting
and repair, drastically
minimising the need for
ground support equipment.
Testability targets call for a 95
percent fault detection, plus the
ability to detect all safetycritical
failures.
With the Rafale, Dassault has
pioneered the use of revolutionary
advances such as the
fully redundant, very high pressure
(350 bar / 5,000 PSI)
hydraulic systems and the
variable frequency alternators
which all boost reliability and
safety. These advances have
proved so successful that they
have been adopted as standard
by other aircraft manufacturers,
and, for instance,
they have been specified for
the Airbus A380.
A single test bench capable of
dealing with all electronic equipment
has been developed, allowing
specialists to determine
which component in a Line
Replaceable Unit (LRU) is defective.
The first one is already
fully operational with the French
Navy. A similar bench has been
selected for the Tiger and NH90
helicopters, and for the French
E-2C Hawkeye. It is also the
baseline for that of the French
Army Leclerc main battle tank.
The selection of the uprated
Snecma M88-3 engine and of
a state-of-the-art Active Electronic
Scanning Antenna (AESA) for
the Thales RBE2 radar also
contributes to the overall improvement
of aircraft reliability.
Excellent supportability
Capitalising on the Mirage 2000 impeccable track record, Dassault Aviation,
Snecma and Thales have designed the Rafale omnirole fighter to offer unprecedented
reliability, supportability, testability, sustainability and deployability levels.
Customer and product support considerations have influenced the design of the aircraft
from the outset, and the Rafale will undoubtedly set new reliability and maintainability
standards.
SUSTAINING
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