Last March, Futura presented a portrait of the future F5 standard of the Rafale combat aircraft. Two days ago, at air base 113 in Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne), Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of the Armed Forces informed manufacturers that the first orders for the fighter plane had just been placed. The device should equip the Army withairair and space, as well as naval aviation by 2030. As we specified, although apparently the Rafale will not evolve particularly, within the fuselagefuselage However, it will be a completely new plane. It will foreshadow what will be the future Scaf, the European collaborative air combat system.
An ultra-connected plane
Packed with electronics and a network of optical fiberoptical fiberthe aircraft will be able to manage quantities of data to carry out collaborative missions with the ground and in the air. The army indicates that “ to facilitate reconnaissance and penetration operations of opposing defenses », it will be preceded by a stealth drone opening the way. Permanently exchanging its data with the Rafale, this wingman should be a derivative of the nEUROn drone developed by Dassault Aviation. The aircraft will also be part of the Strategic Air Forces (FAS) and will carry the future missilemissile hypersonic nuclear ASN4G. For the minister, it will be a real revolution. He compares it to the transition from Mirage 2000 to Rafale.z
