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 yesterday at 12:41 PM 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 yesterday at 12:45 PM 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.

[MAXsenna]

8 hours ago, Furiz said:

Microsoft and ED are 2 different companies,

Obviously, while the Rafale is not developed by MS, so I think it's very fair to say ED won't make it either.

From Dassault's site regarding the Rafale. 

"Jointly developed by AzurPoly and Jet Fighter Experience". 

 

Edited 20 hours ago by MAXsenna

[Furiz]

10 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Obviously, while the Rafale is not developed by MS, so I think it's very fair to say ED won't make it either.

From Dassault's site regarding the Rafale. 

"Jointly developed by AzurPoly and Jet Fighter Experience". 

It doesn't mean anything, ED can still do it for DCS, or Heatblur for that matter  we can only speculate.

[MAXsenna]

It doesn't mean anything, ED can still do it for DCS, or Heatblur for that matter  we can only speculate.

Well, then we disagree. That's fine.

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[Furiz]

14 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Well, then we disagree. That's fine.

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Its fine to disagree, 

 

Lets cheer up with a photo 

[MAXsenna]

Its fine to disagree, 
 
Lets cheer up with a photo 

Gorgeous!

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[Furiz]

What can we expect from 2026 video? 

[Melt-Down]

Well, since the Rafale is not really a secret, they could show us a Charles de Gaulle with some Rafale M and maybe a few Super Etendard on the deck??

[draconus]

2 weeks ago it flew 100m over my head on full burner for over 10 minutes so I kind of have enough of Rafale for a while. Not that I complain or was in wrong place wrong time - it was totally expected 

[Furiz]

4 minutes ago, draconus said:

I kind of have enough of Rafale for a while.

How is that even possible 

6 minutes ago, draconus said:

2 weeks ago it flew 100m over my head on full burner for over 10 minutes

Something like this?:)