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Constant capability development enables customers and partner nations to keep up with evolving threats and challenges. As innovation and future skills are a key driver in the ongoing development, the Eurofighter Typhoon is predestined to become a bridge for the next generation combat air system.
The new contract is valued at 30 million euros and builds on Northrop Grumman's extensive experience with the Eurofighter programme spanning more than 20 years as a supplier for all three tranches of the programme. Northrop Grumman Italia has delivered a total of more than 400 inertial navigation systems for Tranches 1 and 2 of the Eurofighter.
"This award reflects Northrop Grumman's continuing success and growth in the international market, as well as the robust relationship that we have built with Alenia Aermacchi over many years," said Marco Clochiatti, managing director and general manager of Northrop Grumman Italia. "Additionally, our selection for the Eurofighter programme by all four nations reaffirms the strong reputations our products have for advanced technology, reliability and precision."
Leonardo produces about 36% of the entire programme value, playing a key role in the aeronautical and electronics components. Eurofighter Typhoons developed by Leonardo for the Kuwait Air Force will be the first aircraft equipped with the new Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, adding to their capability and performance.
The Typhoon is equipped with an infrared search and track system (PIRATE), enabling simultaneous detection and tracking of single or multiple targets in a vast, complex field of observation. PIRATE is produced by Eurofirst, an international consortium led by Leonardo.
Under a long-term partnership agreement, Leonardo is responsible for providing avionic support and maintenance services for the Royal Air Force and Italian Air Force fleets, as well as the German and Spanish fleets in collaboration with Airbus.
The warning contrasts with trade media being told at the Paris Air Show in June that up to 200 Eurofighter jets could potentially be ordered in the next two years. As of October 2023, a total of 83 aircraft are on order, per program figures.
U.S. Airmen from the 125th Expeditionary Fighter Generation Squadron view a Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Eurofighter Typhoon with their RSAF counterparts during Operation Agile Spartan 23.2, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Aug. 21, 2023. During the exercise, RSAF and 125th EFGS maintainers toured each other's aircraft to see how each partner nation performs their maintenance duties. Agile Spartan 23.2 is a multinational operation aimed at strengthening interoperability, improving response capabilities, and furthering security cooperation initiatives throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Alexander Frank)
The model has artificial stability (flybywire like), plus some plug-in-trick to avoid to go out of control so you can play with the stick and throttle like a crazy monkey and the aircraft will give you all it can give you without go out of limits.
Because the individual capabilities introduced under this upgrade are already mature following international investment, first flight trials employing the 2Excel Navajo equipped with the upgraded Typhoon hardware will take place soon after RIAT. Further trials on-board Typhoon aircraft are scheduled for early 2024.
With the ECRS Mk0 now being delivered, and the Mk1 on order and multi-channel receiver units now in build, the road to equipping the Eurofighter Typhoon with an AESA radar has finally become a reality.
For all involved, this groundbreaking engagement is not a finish line, but rather another mark in the continued evolution of Formidable Shield as the premier integrated air and missile defense exercise and live-fire rehearsal in the European theater. As NATO Allies continue with the exercise over the next two weeks, there just may be another Italian pilot up in the air, breaking barriers just like Umberto Nobile.
Turkey is in talks with the United Kingdom over a multibillion-dollar arms package that includes an estimated 24-48 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets. These talks come as the fate of another $20 billion deal with the United States for 40 advanced Block 70 F-16 Viper jets and 79 modernization kits remains up in the air due to substantive opposition from Congress. The Turkish Air Force would likely welcome a Eurofighter acquisition for several reasons.
In 1998, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) secured a landmark deal for 80 F-16 Block 60s, the most advanced variant of the fighter ever built at the time that was even more advanced than those flown by the U.S. Air Force. The year before, Abu Dhabi purchased 30 Mirage 2000-9 jets from France, clearly signaling it had other viable options if the U.S. did not go through with the F-16 deal.
In the late 1970s, the Carter administration came under scrutiny over a deal to sell 60 F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia, the biggest arms deal to the kingdom of its kind at the time. To publicly demonstrate it had alternatives, Riyadh opened negotiations with the French government for a potential sale of Dassault Mirage F1s. Unlike the Emiratis, however, the Saudis ultimately never bought any French jets.
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The genesis of the RAF Typhoon lay in the early seventiesAST.396 requirement for a STOVL light ground attack fighter intended toreplace the Jaguar and Harrier. This requirement was abandoned infavourof the AST.403 specification for a multirole fighter with similarcapabilities to the emerging US F-16 and F/A-18. The STOVL requirementsoon disappeared since neither Germany nor France saw any such need andthey were the most likely teaming partners for a project too big forthe UK industry to tackle alone. The objective thus became thereplacement of the RAF Jaguar and Phantom FGR.2. With Germany seeking ahighly agile F/RF-4F/E replacement, and France seeking a Jaguarreplacement, AST.414 was created.
European air forces continued to show interest in the idea ofa common European design, and in late 1983 a common Europeanrequirementfor the Future European Fighter Aircraft (FEFA soon changed to EFA) wasdefined with the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain participating.The EFA was to be a highly agile twin engine, single seat fighter withSTOL capabilities. Its role was to be BVR counter air combat, shortrange air superiority over the battlefield, while a respectable strikecapability would be provided.
The influences of the period were quite evident. The Sovietswere fielding the Su-27S and MiG-29, during what was to be their finalsurge in the Cold War arms race. Europe's BVR air defences and airsuperiority hinged on the availability of USAF F-15As based in Germanyand Holland, while most European air forces flew the agile but day-VFRF-16A. Germany and Britain flew tired F-4s of various vintages, andFrance the Mirage F.1 and 2000. The FEFA reflected these pressures, andwas clearly intended to provide a smaller and cheaper European BVRcapable substitute for the then expensive F-15, in numbers competitivewith the F-16, with enough multirole capability to support thededicatedstrike assets in any NATO vs Warpac contingency.
It was a European solution to a European scenario. Thenearestcomparison to the teen series would be an F/A-18 class multirolefighterwith the BVR capabilities and agility of an F-15. The USAF replacedtheir Phantoms with the longer ranging, agile BVR F-15, whereas the USNreplaced theirs with smaller and lighter F/A-18, compromising top endBVR performance in favour of numbers and strike capability. The RAF andLuftwaffe, the leaders in the EFA, rolled the equivalent of the USAFand USN Phantom replacements into a single F/A-18 sized airframe.
August 1985 saw the UK, Germany and Italy decide to resurrectthe program and Spain and France were invited to join. Spain did,Francewent solo with the Rafale. By June 1986 the Eurofighter JagdflugzeugGmbH company was formed, and in September 1986, Eurojet Turbo GmbH wasformed to design and build the engine. The ECR-90 radar was awarded toGEC Ferranti in the UK.
The RAF EFA requirement was SRA.414, which sought alightweight twin turbofan BVR and close combat fighter, with asecondarystrike capability. The RAF sought 250 aircraft, the Luftwaffe 250,Italy 165 and Spain 100.
The Typhoon employs a combined delta canard configurationwitha wing area similar to the F-15, and similar internal fuel capacity,yetthe aircraft has an empty weight of around 24,250 lb, much like a latemodel F/A-18C. The excellent empty weight of the Typhoon in relation tothe wing size is as much a result of the compact configuration, as itis of the generous use of carbon fibre composites in the fuselage andwing of the aircraft. Titanium canards and outer control surfaces, andAluminium Lithium alloy leading edges were employed to minimise weightyet achieve high structural strength.
In comparing the Typhoon to established fighters, theaerodynamic design exploits basic ideas used in F-16 family, butcombines them with a strongly swept delta and canard configuration toextend the supersonic envelope, although not as aggressively as GD didwith the 660 ft2 cranked arrow F-16XL/E wing. The simplerwing designin the Typhoon in turn required canards to achieve the desiredsupersonic drag and manoeuvre envelope.
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