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@ANTIBODY sir, with all due respect, i don't find any reason in this comparison, IAF had accessed to both F-16 Block 52 (infact block 60) & Rafale in MMRCA competition. They have tested both platforms on 640+ technical parameters & down selected Rafale (F-16 couldn't even made it to final two). I am sure that you'll agree that IAF is a professional enough a force to have a good reason to select Rafale over F-16s, this itself proves that Rafale was way ahead of F-16s in all technical parameters.
--- it should be noted that ive posted exercise results of an older rafale and blk52s -- i havent 'dumped' any fighter and i would not allow offtopic / oneliners from teenagers on this thread
this thread was started before rafale was finalized by india-- the nterviews ive posted are also of western pilots... its members on this board who have made it into an iaf vs paf scenario --- if you notice ive posted polish/isreali info in my latest post so that we have an healthy discussion rather than a biased one which would again result in closure of vs threadsF-16 blk-52 vs Rafale is truly a case of which pilot exploits his aircraft better. Rafale is definitely a very good platform and any Air Force flying it would find it to be very good, but so is the case with the F-16. In almost every Air force where the F-16 has been inducted, it has been found to be a better all rounder than most other dedicated platforms. There is no significant "generational" gap here to be talked about between these two platforms contrary to what some post here. Obviously in the Pakistan-India case, the quantity of the two platforms in use is a factor as well.
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