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The manufacturer describes the airframe and M88 propulsion in its [design overview](https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/defense/rafale/design-and-optimise/).", "Distinguish B as two-seat land-based, C as single-seat land-based and M as single-seat carrier variant, using records rather than an isolated external feature. See [Dassault's variant definitions](https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/defense/rafale/design-and-optimise/).", "Treat a Rafale variant designation and its equipment or software standard as separate identifiers; neither alone establishes every capability of an aircraft." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Production variant", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "B; C; M; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines the starting assumptions for seating, basing and variant-specific equipment." }, { "name": "Configuration baseline", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented standard, software release, modifications, operator configuration and effective date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents capabilities from one Rafale configuration being attributed to the entire family." }, { "name": "Published dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Manufacturer overview: span 10.90 m; length 15.30 m; height 5.30 m", "why_it_matters": "Supports initial identification and infrastructure screening; variant applicability must be checked. Source: [Dassault specifications](https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/defense/rafale/specifications-and-performance-data/)." }, { "name": "Published maximum take-off mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "24.5 t in the manufacturer overview; applicable approved limit recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Provides a reference bound without substituting a brochure figure for a configuration-specific operating limit. 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{ "text": "Which installed sensor, communications or external-equipment configuration supports the claimed role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-capability-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence apply to this operator configuration, or only to another Rafale fleet?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-capability-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "airframe-propulsion-and-controls", "name": "Airframe, propulsion and controls", "description": "Connects Rafale physical architecture to assessment of limits and system condition.", "rationale": "Published family performance does not describe every mass, equipment state or degraded configuration.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry-and-mass", "name": "Geometry and mass", "description": "Qualifies dimensional and mass figures by variant and configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-physical-limits", "name": "Applicable physical limits", "description": "Retain units, configuration and source context for dimensions, mass and 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Dassault describes M88 propulsion and digital fly-by-wire controls in its [design overview](https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/defense/rafale/design-and-optimise/).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which engine versions and flight-control software configuration are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propulsion-and-control-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which recorded propulsion or control-system restrictions affect the serviceability assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "propulsion-and-control-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "basing-and-equipment-interfaces", "name": "Basing and equipment interfaces", "description": "Assesses Rafale compatibility with operating environments and attached equipment.", "rationale": "Carrier suitability and equipment integration require more evidence than family membership or physical attachment points.", "layers": [ { "id": "land-and-carrier-compatibility", "name": "Land and carrier compatibility", "description": "Distinguishes variant design intent from approval for a specific operating environment.", "findings": [ { "id": "basing-compatibility-evidence", "name": "Basing compatibility evidence", "description": "Treat the M designation as a starting point for carrier assessment, with platform compatibility and current approval recorded separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which airfield or carrier compatibility evidence applies to this Rafale configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basing-compatibility-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What additional approval is required before treating the documented variant as suitable for the proposed operating environment?", "kind": "action", "id": "basing-compatibility-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "external-equipment-integration", "name": "External equipment integration", "description": "Records carriage and support interfaces without modelling the equipment itself.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-specific-clearance", "name": "Configuration-specific clearance", "description": "Separate station availability, mechanical compatibility, software integration and approved carriage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which clearance identifies the equipment, station and Rafale configuration as compatible?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "configuration-specific-clearance-q01" }, { "text": "Is the claim about physical attachment, functional integration or authorised carriage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "configuration-specific-clearance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sustainment-and-release", "name": "Sustainment and release", "description": "Defines the evidence needed to judge a Rafale's technical condition and refer permitted actions.", "rationale": "Aircraft condition, configuration acceptance and release authority are separate prerequisites for use.", "layers": [ { "id": "maintenance-and-life-status", "name": "Maintenance and life status", "description": "Connects Rafale-specific support requirements to linked airframe and component records.", "findings": [ { "id": "maintenance-applicability", "name": "Maintenance applicability", "description": "Require applicable maintenance references for engine life, structural usage, inspections and consumables rather than deriving intervals from public performance descriptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which maintenance programme and revisions apply to this Rafale variant and operator configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "maintenance-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "What linked evidence establishes remaining component life, inspection status and consumable conformity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maintenance-applicability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "safety-and-release-authority", "name": "Safety and release authority", "description": "Separates technical status from permission to perform a specific activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-release-decision", "name": "Supported release decision", "description": "Record applicable safety-device status, unresolved defects, restrictions and release authority; 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Dassault Rafale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", 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Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Dassault Rafale from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Dassault Rafale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Dassault Rafale is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Dassault Rafale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, 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"escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Dassault Rafale is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Dassault Rafale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Dassault Rafale is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Dassault Rafale is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Dassault Rafale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Dassault Rafale is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Dassault Rafale, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Dassault Rafale, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Dassault Rafale passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on 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"method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Dassault Rafale is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a Dassault Rafale and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a Dassault Rafale is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a Dassault Rafale performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a 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