From Ares

 

A pic showing how similar the Rafale and Typhoon really are in size and planform ...

 

From Ares

 

A pic showing how similar the Rafale and Typhoon really are in size and planform ...

 

 

Good to see the 'Tiffies' manoeuvering into the French 6 O'clock position.

 

I think the photo illustrates the common ancestry of these planes back to the days of the original EFA project. I guess had the French got their way and had Dassault lead the design effort then the Eurofighter would have looked very much like the Rafale.

Thanks Brad, I always pictured the Rafale as a much smaller bird.

As I've my own tables about aircraft sizes (for hypothetical RCS and size studies and similar stuff I use as a prominent factor the wing area, and in those two planes is where the difference is bigger), the Typhoon is in overall aspects as a 10% bigger than Rafael:

Wing area:

Typhoon: 51,2 m2

Rafale: 45,7 m2

 

Wing span:

Typhoon: 10,95 m

Rafale: 10,8 m

 

Lenght:

Typhoon: 15,96 m

Rafale: 15,27 m

 

Height:

Typhoon: 5,28 m

Rafale: 5,34 m

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Another perspective (from Flight Global):