Some interesting
quotes :
«The Rafale is ideal for the job, stresses one of the two duty
pilots.It can climb to 40,000 feet in under two minutes and
acceleratevery rapidly to supersonic speed. More significantly,
it can super-cruise in dry power, even
with four missiles and a belly droptank. Endurance is
excellent too, and we can stay airborne upto two hours with one
tank.»
Well, it's official now 
"At the end of each sortie, the engineers had 30minutes to turn
around the fighter, including ten minutes to fill up the tanks.
However, the aircraft was usually operational again in 15
minutes"
That's a nice time. However, It would be interesting to compare
it with the gripen and the mirage 2000 turnover in the same
conditions.
Thanks to the RBE2s scalablearchitecture, the upgrade to the
active antenna simply involves replacing the tube transmitter and
passive electronic scanning antenna witharound 1,000 active
modules.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time the number of
modules of the RBE-2AA is quoted.
A secondary aim is to use the technologies developed through the
ECO program to pave the way for a higher thrust engine.The
possibility of developing an engine
developing 90 kN(20,200 lb) of thrust with reheathas been
demonstrated.
Such an engine would allow an even faster supercruise speed.
A recent flight evaluation with a foreign Air Force spotlighted
the excellent performance of the engine, along with the advantages
of its innovative maintenance concept.
I wonder which foreign Air force they are talking about
