The Rafale carries heavy

[sancho]

was when the SPECTRA suite wasn't fully developed, did not have any AESA-based jammers,
and didn't have the GaN tech (which Rafale F4 will get some years down the line) either.

The excercise was in 2012 as the article said as well and SPECTRA had AESA jammers too, but GaS and not even the more powerful GaN versions that the F3+ now have and that IAF would get. However, the reported performance was very impressive wrt to it's EW capabilities, especially since it was a NATO exercises with dedicated EW and SEAD fighters. Just showed once again how advanced the Rafale is in this field, but people that want to downplay it, will keep claiming about Libya not having credible air defence...without looking at the facts, or comparing it's performance even to US fighters there.