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Old 13th Apr 2011, 22:54
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Archimedes
 
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The answer looks something like this.

Shortly, a French nationalist troll will appear here, under his umpteenth PPrune name, to tell you that Rafale is all-conquering and that Typhoon is completely hopeless, attempting to convince you by displaying a degree of supposed expertise which is entirely spurious and based upon reading a Dassault brochure, some fanciful ideas about air combat and assertions about the supremacy of French engineering over the rest of the world, all couched in terms which gives a slight sense that the Typhoon vs Rafale debate leads to a certain degree of arousal on his part of the sort that even Sigmund Freud would've found worrying.

At this point, other contributors will join in, your question will get lost as banter over Napoleon, the Fall of France in 1940/Dunkirk/Battle of Britain, Google's 'French Military Victories' in their 'I'm feeling lucky' search category turns into vitriolic nationalist abuse, with at least one failure to identify some posts as banter, followed by the thread getting locked, along with the troll being unmasked as the latest incarnation of Gegene/Fonc [sic].

And you'll still be none the wiser, because the answer that both are damned good aircraft, with some flaws and some outstanding qualities, and that it's a bit hard to make an outright decision as to which is better at this stage in their careers will be submerged in the above and go entirely un-noticed.

Anyway, that's been the way the answer's looked for the last decade whenever the question's been asked.
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