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Rafales IMO are also underpowered slightly unlike the previous Mirage Snecma M88 engines which were more powerful. Despite great aesthetics, if this article speaks the truth then I do hope that my government considers such drawbacks.
It won't have much of an issue considering the size and war doctrine (which we don't have on active basis), but the price tag is worrisome as compared to our present F/A-18s and we are better off replacing them with something similar in capabilities and reasonably priced.
These are the exact passive technologies I was pointing to in the thread about the Qaher-313, and that you denied vehemently, those are the exact technologies that are used in the Qaher-313, just that it is done on a different scale.
Returning to the topic of this thread, the Rafale is simply one of the best 4th generation fighter planes out there, it was not designed to be a real stealth fighter, although it has some basic stealthy characteristics, it was designed to match the F-16's first generations, and that is the main reason why India decided on it, it may also want to upgrade the Rafale to match the newer generations of the F-16s and to some extent the JF-17s, it is also in order to be in par with PAF, by manufacturing the Rafale at home in India and at the same time get its hands on the French technologies instead of Pakistan who in my opinion will have them anyway.