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A new platform "nanny" for Rafale
This is not necessarily the equipment as "sexy" Rafale, but it must also go through a renovation project: the car refueling aircraft used by the Naval Aviation and will undergo a course of youth under the future standard F3-R, the Notification must be made in the coming days.
Baptized Narang (Platform new generation refueling), this program should be attributed to the French industrial INTERTECHNIQUE (Zodiac Group), already a supplier of some of the refueling pods currently in service in Naval Aviation. It has a score of these systems to equip its Rafale and Super Etendard, but only a portion should be retained at the end of this renovation project.
The idea is to increase the reliability of the car, while improving its performance especially in terms of flow of kerosene, this variable determines the speed at which the airplane "receiver" can be supplied with fuel. The integration system of the aircraft should also be further.
Other solutions were studied, such as buying a U.S. nacelle Cobham 1,000 liters (notably used by the U.S. Navy on its Super Hornet), but this option would need to carry out new (and expensive) work of integration aeromechanical. The renovated Rafale nacelle therefore reuse the same external than the current system shell.
Regularly used by the Naval Aviation operations in this configuration the Rafale "nanny" are also interested in potential export customers. India already uses a similar system on its Su-30, with a gondola that would have been provided by Cobham.
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This is not necessarily the equipment as "sexy" Rafale, but it must also go through a renovation project: the car refueling aircraft used by the Naval Aviation and will undergo a course of youth under the future standard F3-R, the Notification must be made in the coming days.
Baptized Narang (Platform new generation refueling), this program should be attributed to the French industrial INTERTECHNIQUE (Zodiac Group), already a supplier of some of the refueling pods currently in service in Naval Aviation. It has a score of these systems to equip its Rafale and Super Etendard, but only a portion should be retained at the end of this renovation project.
The idea is to increase the reliability of the car, while improving its performance especially in terms of flow of kerosene, this variable determines the speed at which the airplane "receiver" can be supplied with fuel. The integration system of the aircraft should also be further.
Other solutions were studied, such as buying a U.S. nacelle Cobham 1,000 liters (notably used by the U.S. Navy on its Super Hornet), but this option would need to carry out new (and expensive) work of integration aeromechanical. The renovated Rafale nacelle therefore reuse the same external than the current system shell.
Regularly used by the Naval Aviation operations in this configuration the Rafale "nanny" are also interested in potential export customers. India already uses a similar system on its Su-30, with a gondola that would have been provided by Cobham.
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