Dassault Looks at Rafale as Satellite Launcher

This is actually fairly well trodden ground, with an F-15 launching an anti-satellite weapon in the 1980s, and concepts using a MiG-31 to launch microsats in the past few years.

What looks like fuel tanks under the wings are actually solid rocket boosters, which is a bit of a change from earlier configurations.

While the F-15 did successfully intercept a satellite (that was still putting out good scientific data…oops), nothing has come of this otherwise.

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