We are proud to announce the DCS: Rafale C — a high-fidelity, flyable aircraft module officially licensed by Dassault Aviation and developed as a close collaboration between Heatblur Simulations, Jet Fighter Experience (JFEXP) and Fly And Fight.
 
Dassault Aviation’s licensing and manufacturer-level cooperation form the essential foundation of this project, ensuring that the Rafale is represented with the accuracy, integrity, and respect a modern, active duty fighter jet demands. Jet Fighter Experience plays a key role in the development effort, contributing additional engineering, research and modeling, and acting as the interface for coordination with Dassault. Their background in delivering comprehensive tactical simulation solutions for military training — spanning simulator design, tailored tactical content, technical deployment, and operational support — is a critical pillar of the DCS: Rafale C project. Fly And Fight complements this with direct operational insight through experienced Rafale pilots: a former Rafale Solo Display pilot and instructor with over 2,000 flight hours in the Rafale, who is widely regarded as a reference in maneuverability, technical demonstration and mastery of the aircraft; and a squadron pilot with over 1,000 flight hours in the Rafale who participated in nearly all major Rafale operational deployments. Both bring first-hand experience of real combat, procedures, tactics, maneuvers, mission execution, the human factor and the operational rigor of French fighter aviation. Heatblur Simulations acts as the main developer and integrates all of this work, shaping it into a single, coherent module through the company’s technology, tools, and long-standing experience as one of the premier developers of high-fidelity flight simulation products today.
 
At the heart of the DCS: Rafale C lies Heatblur’s ANVIL technology, our component-based simulation framework. This allows us to model the Rafale as a tightly interlinked combat system where flight controls, sensors, avionics, weapons, and aircraft systems continuously and naturally influence one another as individual components. Combined with deep research and ongoing feedback from those who know the aircraft best, this approach lets us push the boundaries of modern jet simulation in DCS once more.
 
The Rafale C, the single-seat variant and flagship of the French Air and Space Force, embodies the original Rafale philosophy in its purest form: a true omnirole fighter designed from the ground up to give the pilot freedom of action. It was built to fight for air superiority, deliver precision strikes, gather intelligence, and project power — often within the same sortie — while remaining survivable and effective in dense, contested environments.
 
This philosophy has been tested and refined in combat during sustained operations in Afghanistan, Libya, the Sahel, Iraq, and Syria, operating far from home bases and across a wide range of mission profiles. These deployments, frequently conducted in coalition environments, shaped the aircraft’s tactics, systems, and upgrades, and turned the Rafale into one of the most combat-proven modern fighters in service today.