2020年9月25日 · The F-18 Super Hornet’s major advantage is that it provides similar performance at much lower cost. ‘With Meteor Rafale is more potent in air combat until 2022 while Super Hornet is a better multirole platform. With AIM-260 it’ll be a different game where Super Hornet can fully exploit its superior radar.’

Side-by-side comparison of the Dassault Rafale against the Boeing F/A-18 Advanced Super Hornet.

3 x Jettisonable Fuel Drop Tanks. Side-by-side comparison of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet against the Dassault Rafale.

2024年6月29日 · Both the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the French Rafale are excellent 4.5th-generation fighter jets in their latest iterations—although the Navy is now starting to look beyond the Hornet to the F-35C. The Rafale M will be the fighter …

F/A-18 Super Hornet vs Dassault Rafale Speed. The F/A-18 Super Hornet has a top speed of 1,190 miles per hour, and the Dassault Rafale has a top speed of 1,188 miles per hour. Head to head, this makes the F/A-18 Super Hornet 2 miles per hour faster than the Dassault Rafale.

The Rafale M can outperform the Super Hornet in immediate and sustained turn rates at all comparable loads and altitudes, but it excels at altitudes below 35,000ft. The Rafale M generates massive lift, has much better thrust-to-weight at combat loadings, and has superior acceleration.

2019年12月20日 · Less than a thousand days separated the service entry of the French Rafale M and the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. These two extremely potent fighter-bombers are that rare breed, a fast jet able to operate in the punishing environment of the aircraft carrier .

Here you can compare specifications, production year, cost and pictures multirole aircraft.

2018年6月12日 · From an aesthetic point of view, the Dassault Rafale and the Boeing Super Hornet are two very different looking fighters. The Rafale uses a close-coupled canard-delta wing layout with a single vertical stabilizer while the Super Hornet (a.k.a. ‘Rhino’) uses a more familiar trapezoidal wing with traditional elevators and two canted stabilizers.

2023年5月11日 · The F/A-18 Super Hornet has a speed of Mach 1.8, similar to the Rafale thanks to dual GE-sourced engines. The Super Hornet is equipped with the M61A1 Vulcan rotating cannon which can fire 6,000 rounds per minute. The F/A-18 Super Hornet has a homing radar combined with a semi-active Air Intercept Missile (AIM-7 Sparrow).