Agha Sher
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well this is true and Egypt has no long range weapon to down them, this is a point for TAF.
well you were saying TAF has better fighter jets...
my friend dassault rafale, EF typhoon and super hornet have LO radar profile (around 0.5-0.1), it means an f-16 with APG-68 can detect them around 60-40 km respectively. and after that range rafale spectra (if i'm not wrong) jammers come in the game. they take sample of incoming radar and actively cancel it by producing opposite wave form of it so the rafale become invisible to hunter plane. again you need to come closer to achieve burn-through and detect rafale (i don't know how much exactly). so f-16's long range AMRAAM is not really relevant.
sortie definition is the times that a plane can take off and perform it's role and land. it is obviously related to number of planes.
According to my knowledge, Rafale has an RCS of slightly above 1, while F-16C has around 1.15. In that regard, they are comparable. In addition, TuAF enjoys greater integrated warfare capabilities as their AEW&C aircraft can feed target data to their F-16s. Thus, TuAF maintains its range advantage against EAF. In terms of EW, I would say the current Turkish upgrade programme is more or less comparable to SPECTRE.
sortie definition is the times that a plane can take off and perform it's role and land. it is obviously related to number of planes.
There might be some misalignment in our understanding of the terms. The way I understand the term is the number of combat mission of an individual aircraft. Thus, having the opportunity to refuel in the air (instead of landing for refuel) closer to the conflict zone between missions increases the sortie rate. (Assuming that the aircraft did not use all of its weaponry in the previous combat mission. Note, a combat mission does not necessarily entail use of weaponry)