rumour Dassault official on DCS?

[Vampyre]

On 10/1/2025 at 10:26 AM, Pilotasso said:

This is the world's worst kept secret by now, if you seen the previous page.

Rafale employs vastly superior weapons already. Why would you need to employ 1980's tech on them?

To sell them to countries who also have large stockpiles of ex-soviet weapons. Ukraine and India immediately come to mind.

[Pilotasso]

india has a contract to supply Meteor missiles. This justification is not technically viable.

[Furiz]

I just hope ED will develop Rafalem don't want 3rd parties on this, and may it be F3 version.

Edited 1 hour ago by Furiz

[Melt-Down]

4 minutes ago, Furiz said:

I just hope ED will develop Rafalem don't want 3rd parties on this, and may it be F3 version.

So far, all signs point to a third party.

 

I'm getting curious to see if ED will say anything about it in this week Newsletter.
 

Edited 1 hour ago by Melt-Down

[Furiz]

2 minutes ago, Melt-Down said:

So far, all signs point to a third party.

Microsoft and ED are 2 different companies,

plus ED has its own dev team which doesn't require other parties to do complex work. There are 2 jets out of EA recently, F/A-18c and F-16c maybe some others but anyway so ppl have some free time even tho development on those jets is not over, workload is not as much as before with those 2 mentioned jets. 

Ofc F-35 is coming, MiG-29 is out etc....

So with resources to allocate elsewhere they would be foolish to miss out on getting the full cake for this one, cause Rafale sales are going to be huge. 

That's what I think about 3rd party on Rafale. But lets wait and see.

[draconus]

9 minutes ago, Furiz said:

Ofc F-35 is coming, MiG-29 is out etc....

Forgot about F-15C?

[Furiz]

44 minutes ago, draconus said:

Forgot about F-15C?

Yes

That's all announced officially, I guess Rafale will fit in after that, I don't expect it sooner than 2028 tbh.