EF2000 Typhoon

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Je trouve aberrant qu'un forum qui se respecte comme le nôtre ne contient aucun topic dédié à l'Euro Fighter!
Pour commencer, les Typhoon en suisse:





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HMD en photo:

Eh oui, je suis désolé mais ce n'est pas que de la pub, Gemini, c'est aussi l'exercice "Green Flag" aux USA...

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RAF No 11 Squadron Typhoon at Green Flag, USA. The Typhoon is loaded with enhanced paveway 2 bombs, litening 111 designater pod and drop tanks. No 11 Squadron has detached to Nellis Air Force base in the Nevada desert for this exercise in the US.

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Ils testent aussi les Paveway IV GBU-12 (mode GPS/INS)...

http://www.eurofighter.com/typo3temp/pics/a05f588870.jpg

http://www.raytheon.co.uk/rtnwcm/groups/rsl/documents/content/rsl_ppaveway_finaldoc.pdf

Rafi

Bravo ,maintenant c'est un B17 .......Le typhoon aussi fort qu'Houdini .(mode LOL sur on).

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Eurofighter debuts in Slovakia – Aircraft participates in the Piestany Air Show




Two Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, one piloted by the Alenia Aeronautica test pilot Matteo Maurizio, landed in the Central European country of Slovakia for the first time last Friday 28 May, to participate in the Piestany Air Show.


The event, held over the weekend in the reknown Slovakian spa town, also home to the country’s historical aeronautical museum.
The twice daily Eurofighter display was admired by more than 50,000 people who attended the show. Alongside the Italian Typhoon aircraft which carried out a six minute, full aerobatic display showing off the full capabilities of the European plane was an Austrian Air Force Eurofighter which shared the air display responsibilities. The Austrian Eurofighter made several high speed passes over the short runway of Piestany airport before climbing vertically to high altitude and returning to its home base in Zeltweg.
In Slovakia, the Eurofighter is acknowledged as being the ideal solution for the replacement of the Slovak Air Force’s MiG-29 fleet which in the medium term have to be replaced with a more modern defence system. The Mig-29 is still a capable defence system, superior in tems of performance as a twin engined aircraft when compared with other twin and single engined platforms currently in service with some of the neighbouring countries.
The European solution offered by the Eurofighter could also help to sustain and develop the capabilities of the Slovakian defence industry and its skilled workforce, allowing the nation’s air force to keep up to date with the latest technological standards.
Source: Eurofighter

viationnews.eu

la serbie interessée

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DATE:10/06/10
SOURCE:Flight Daily News
ILA: Eurofighter submits Tranche 3B offer, as Serbia shows interest
By Craig Hoyle

The Eurofighter consortium has made its first move leading to the production of 124 Tranche 3B aircraft for Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, and been the subject of early interest from the Serbian defence ministry.

An initial proposal for the planned final batch of the combat aircraft was submitted to the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency last month, says export future business manager Rob Wells. This will negotiate with the industrial consortium on behalf of the partner nations over the next year or so, with a contract signature needed by late 2011.

This will ensure that the Eurofighter partner companies do not encounter a production gap after completing the programme's last Tranche 3A examples around mid-2016, Wells says.


Spanish Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon, Eurofighter

Representing the remaining aircraft contained within a four-nation umbrella contract for 620 Eurofighters, the Tranche 3B examples are likely to be in a similar configuration to the 124 Tranche 3A aircraft ordered late last year. The UK has funded a change proposal to have its examples built with provisions for an active electronically scanned array radar, Wells confirms.

Meanwhile, Serbian officials are at the show looking at possible candidates for a domestic fighter requirement likely to total around 20 aircraft. Eurofighter responded to a request for information from Belgrade in April, and a delegation visited the company here on Tuesday.

One of the service's Soko S4 Super Galebs is in the static display at the show, and Serbian officials will also be meeting with other manufacturers at ILA.

Wells says the RFI did not specify the fleet size or delivery time for a future acquisition, which would look to replace the Serbian air force's remaining RSK MiG-21s and MiG-29s. With Belgrade pursuing EU membership, a fighter acquisition could potentially also be achieved by sourcing secondhand aircraft from one of the Eurofighter operating nations.

Italy is already sponsoring a bid to promote such aircraft to Romania, in an effort to persuade the nation to reverse a recent decision to buy used Lockheed Martin F-16s.

Aesa pour les Typhoons?? ...

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Eurofighter to unveil upgrade at Farnborough

Tue 06 Jul, 2010 13:56

PARIS (Reuters) - Eurofighter, the four-nation fighter plane consortium, plans to announce a major upgrade to the Typhoon combat jet at the Farnborough air show, the company said on Tuesday.

The company -- owned by BAE Systems , Italy's Finmeccanica and European aerospace group EADS which represents Germany and Spain -- did not provide details but has been planning to modernise the radar.

A July 20 press conference at the biennial air show will cover an "important agreement to further upgrade the Eurofighter Typhoon," the company said in a press invitation.

http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=reutersnews&articleid=TRE6652IT&feed=Bus&action=article

J'attends le 20 avec impatience! C'est peut être la fameux CAESAR avec antenne rotative, ou le EJ230 avec 20% de poussée supplémentaire... peut être la TVC aussi, le consortuim avez promis dans le cadre du programme MMRCA d'integrer la TVC, une version du EJ200 avec TVC a déjà été testée en statique.

Y a beaucoup de possibilités, mais c'est vrai que la plus probable c'est le AESA.

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300th right wing will be integrated in a Eurofighter for the German Air Force
11:58 GMT, July 9, 2010 A ceremony was held this Friday at EADS Defence & Security’s facilities in Getafe to celebrate the delivery of the 300th right Eurofighter wing, in which the workforce on the assembly line played a crucial part. This wing will be integrated in the twin-seat Eurofighter 021 destined for the German Air Force, which will be assembled at EADS Defence & Security's facilities in Manching, Germany.

Enrique Barrientos, CEO Defence & Security Spain, commented: “The Eurofighter continues being the most important programme for the development of the technological capabilities of the Spanish aviation industry, and today we are celebrating a new milestone with the delivery of the 300th wing, which was produced on schedule using latest technologies.” The Eurofighter’s wing is a multi-spar construction with integral fuel tanks. It has inboard and outboard flaperons along its entire length, slats on its leading edge, and the advanced Defensive Aids Subsystem (DASS) at its tip.

The main landing gear attachment structure is located on both wings. The skins and spars are made of carbon-fibre composite (CFC) materials, with the spars co-bonded to the lower skins. The ribs are made of carbon fibre, aluminium and titanium. Titanium is also used for the wing-fuselage connections and outboard flaperons. The wings are assembled at EADS Defence & Security’s facilities in Getafe using an innovative concept. Ten successive steps have been designed and put in place for wing assembly in order to reach the production rate needed to fulfil the Eurofighter contract.

The Getafe facilities also house the final assembly line for all Spanish Air Force Eurofighters, production of which began in summer 2001. The Eurofighter programme has created 22,000 direct and indirect jobs for highly qualified employees in Spain.

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DATE:15/07/10
SOURCE:Flight International
Eurofighter nations offered AESA radar enhancement
By Craig Hoyle

The Euroradar consortium has made an offer to provide an active electronically scanned array radar enhancement for Eurofighter partner nations Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.

"We have tabled a proposal using risk-reduction work that has already been done," says Steve Mogford, chief executive of Selex Galileo, lead stakeholder in the Euroradar group. "We're just waiting for them to drop the flag." The move represents a standalone offer, and is not linked to the proposed Tranche 3B production phase of the Eurofighter programme, he adds.

The Euroradar consortium has proposed retaining as much "back-end" equipment from the Eurofighter's current mechanically scanned radar as possible as part of delivering the proposed E-Captor system.

Selex Galileo is already working towards integrating an AESA array with the Eurofighter for the UK under a technology demonstration programme worth around £20 million ($30 million). A modified aircraft is expected to fly in 2013 under the initiative.

The Eurofighter industrial consortium has cited the availability of an AESA array as a key addition if it is to secure additional export orders with the Typhoon. The type is currently being offered to meet requirements in nations including India, Japan, Oman and Switzerland.

Spanish Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon, Eurofighter

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DATE:21/07/10
SOURCE:Flight Daily News
FARNBOROUGH: Eurofighter gets AESA radar deal, but Italy looks to F-35
By Craig Hoyle

Eurofighter has received approval to add an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar to its Typhoon combat aircraft, but has been hit by an Italian decision to renege on a commitment to Tranche 3B production of the type, in favour of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The four-nation industrial consortium says full-scale development work has already started on the AESA enhancement by Euroradar partners Selex Galileo, EADS Defence Electronics and Indra.

"This is an important step, and will ensure that Typhoon continues to lead the way as the world's best new-generation multirole combat aircraft," says Eurofighter chief executive Enzo Casolini.

The enhancement is intended to deliver an in-service capability for partner nations Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK from 2015, with the AESA modification to also be made available as a retrofit for earlier production aircraft, and also have "significant growth potential".

Dubbed E-Captor, the AESA sensor will retain much of the "back-end" from the Typhoon's current mechanically scanned array radar, but deliver increases in detection and tracking range, and improved capability when using air-to-surface weapons, Eurofighter says. The new array will be mounted on a repositioner to widen its field of view.

Separately, defence minister Ignazio La Russa announced at the show that Italy plans to axe its planned Tranche 3B purchase of a final 25 Eurofighters, in a move intended to save €2 billion ($2.5 billion). Its decision will reduced its air force's total fleet of the type to 96 aircraft.

The Italian defence ministry has also confirmed its intention to proceed with plans to acquire the F-35, although La Russa declines to comment on the size of Rome's planned purchase. "We are very cautious about the number of aircraft to be acquired", he says.

The ministry has previously identified a requirement for 131 of the aircraft, in both the F-35A conventional take-off and landing and F-35B short-take off vertical landing variants.

The Eurofighter partners delivered an initial Tranche 3B proposal in June, and had wanted to reach contract signature by late 2011. Germany has also expressed doubts over its ability to take its last production batch of aircraft, but Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, the UK Royal Air Force's chief of the air staff, describes Tranche 3B as still being of great importance to the service, due to its planned addition of capabilities including the MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missile.

The UK has already funded an independent technology demonstrator programme worth £20 million ($30 million) to flight test an AESA array with one of its Typhoons. Selex has previously said that the milestone should occur during 2013, but industry sources at the show suggest that it could be poised to happen imminently.

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Dubbed E-Captor, the AESA sensor will retain much of the "back-end" from the Typhoon's current mechanically scanned array radar.

Donc théroiquement il est possible d'upgrader le Captor actuel déjà en service pour en faire un E-Captor.

Ces italiens...

PS:Vive l'Europe de la defénse!!!

j'avais vu un documentaire où un pilote de la RAF vantait les qualités de l'appareil
il a avancé qu'il pouvait maintenir sa supercruise assez longtemps pour réduire significativement sa signature IR, et ça sauve la peau si on a un missile IR à sa trousse

FAMAS a écrit:

j'avais vu un documentaire où un pilote de la RAF vantait les qualités de l'appareil
il a avancé qu'il pouvait maintenir sa supercruise assez longtemps pour réduire significativement sa signature IR, et ça sauve la peau si on a un missile IR à sa trousse

Cet appareil est à l'aise en supercruise, l'armée autrichienne parle d'une vitesse en supercruise de much 1,5 mais c'est pas très crédible comme chiffre, le chiffre le plus raisonnable est de 1,2 ou 1,3 et pendant une durée importante.

Les vertus de la supercruise sont nombreuses, il n'y a pas que la réduction de la signature IR, il y a aussi la réduction de la consommation et par conséquent l'augmentation du rayon d'action. Des fois quand on met des moteurs plus puissants (sans abuser) on réduit la consommation, ça peut paraitre absurde mais quand on fait le lien avec la supercruise on comprend la raison. Dans ce sens j'ai déjà lu le témoignage d'un pilote de chasse français qui dit que le Rafale avec M88-2 de 75Kn consomme beaucoup parce qu'il est obligé d'allumer régulièrement la réchauffe, et que si il était équipé d'un M88 90 Kn il consommera moins vu qu'il pourra cruiser à 1,2 sans allumer la réchauffe.

un petit hors sujet
lockheed prétendait lors du MMRCA indien que le F16NI est capable de supercruise
ça se tient ?

FAMAS a écrit:

un petit hors sujet
lockheed prétendait lors du MMRCA indien que le F16NI est capable de supercruise
ça se tient ?

Oui, le F-16 IN est developpé sur la base du Desert Falcon UAE. Et il est établi que le Desert Falcon supercruise sans problème, c'est la raison d'être du GE-132.


C'est pour ça j'ai fantasmé la dernière fois sur le PW-232 qui a la même poussée

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Eurofighter Typhoon: Air Forces take delivery of a latest technology Helmet Mounted Symbology System



09:40 GMT, July 22, 2010 Hallbergmoos | In July 2010 the UK Royal Air Force, Spanish Air Force, Italian Air Force and the German Luftwaffe have begun taking delivery of the most advanced Helmet Mounted Symbology System (HMSS) which will form a key component of their Eurofighter Typhoon weapon systems.

The HMSS significantly improves tactical performance for Eurofighter pilots, by providing essential flight and weapon aiming information through line of sight imagery. Information imagery includes aircraft’s flight parameters, weapons status and aiming all projected on the HEA (Helmet Equipment Assembly) visor, thereby enabling the pilot to simultaneously look out in any direction (head out) and have all required flight and weapon aiming information always in his field of vision.

Together the Typhoon Helmet and HMSS provide world leading capabilities, giving the pilot, in conjunction with the rest of the Typhoon Human Machine Interface, unrivalled situational awareness whether “head in” or “head out”.

The HMSS passive and stealthy sensor system, developed and manufactured by BAE Systems, provides the Eurofighter pilot with significant operational advantages by reducing pilot workload and increasing the weapon envelope in combat situations. The Eurofighter Pilot will be able to instantly designate targets with full head movement, reducing the need for in-cockpit switch selection and aircraft manoeuvring. This exploits the full potential of high off-boresight missiles such as IRIS-T and ASRAAM which can now be deployed without the need to turn the aircraft on to the target.

As well as providing non-avionic type helmet essential safety characteristics of pilot life support and communications functions, the HMSS has full integration with all Eurofighter attack and navigation systems. The new helmet can be used throughout the full aircraft envelope (up to 9g) for both air-to-air and air-to-ground day / night missions. Ongoing weapon system capabilities including additional air-to-ground features will be released next year with the first already contracted batch of the Eurofighter enhancements programme. The new helmet and HMSS allow for ongoing development and enhancement such as increased night vision capabilities.

The HMSS is manufactured from carbon fibre and at under 2 kg its weight is similar to other contemporary non-HMSS helmets. Its modular design incorporates a pilot personal “inner” helmet, which fits into the standard “outer” avionic HMSS. This design allows both personal comfort and reduced ownership costs through the flexibility of an outer interchangeable HMSS. Ejection safety characteristics are built into the design.

The new helmet and HMSS has be in action during the Farnborough Air Show with BAE Systems test pilot Nat Makepeace wearing it during his daily air display.

http://www.defpro.com/news/details/17024/