EF2000 Typhoon

Rappel du premier message :

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:





Remarquez le nouveau HMD:


HMD en photo:

rafi a écrit:

Je crois que l'un comme l'autre nous sommes incapables de remplir une telle mission.

J'approuve a 100%.
Je l'ai lu dans la génése du Rafale,c'est peut etre faux mais cela se tiens si on ni reflechit bien.
La disposition des entrees d'air du typhoon n'autorise pas une pleine sécurité en cas de probléme sur l'un ou l'autre des reacteur.
Comme tu le dis je ni connais rien ,d'ailleurs je retourne faire paitre mes vaches.... 

Combien de Rafale au tapis par accident pour combien d'Eurofighter? Combien volent à nouveau après avoir subi un accident? Combien d'Eurofighter fabriqués et en service, et combien de Rafale fabriqués et en service, à la date d'aujourd'hui? Combien de morts ces accidents ont-ils causés?  Combien d'heures de vol cumulent ces deux avions depuis leur entrée en service? suite à un accident qui a, ou qui n'a pas, interdit de vol de toute sa flotte pour des raisons évidentes de sécurité? etc.

Si j'étais un expert du net, j'en tirerais la conclusion que le Rafale pose un sacré problème de sécurité pour ses pilotes, le fait qu'il possède deux réacteurs ni changeant rien, peut-être est-ce dû à ses peu conventionnelles entrées d'air ou à un défaut structurel, bla, bla, bla?

Ce que je viens d'écrire va être pris en compte par les moteurs de recherche comme yahoo ou google, on lira dans quelques temps chez les fans qu'un éminent expert de l'aviation militaire  certifie que cet avion est potentiellement dangereux et mortel à cause, peut-être, de ses entrées d'air. C'est ça internet.

J'ai la chance d'être assez vieux pour me rappeler tout ce qui se disait au sujet du F-16 à l'époque, notamment lors de la compétition avec le Mirage F1 français, c'est du même niveau, et j'avais de la chance, la toile n'existait pas.

Si c'est ecrit cela peu ,peu etre, etre vrai.
la plupart des pertes des pertes était du aux dogfights, desorientation spaciale.
ne levons pas le doute .

L'Eurofighter a lui des petits outils sympas, comme le Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), le Low Height Warning and Disillusion Recovery Function (DRF), et aussi le Automatic Low-Speed Recovery (ALSR) pour palier à ce type "d'accidents". C'est particulièrement utile pour les autrichiens avec toutes ces montagnes.

http://www.eurofighter.com/fileadmin/web_data/downloads/efworld/Ef-World-01-2013.pdf

http://www.eurofighter.com/fileadmin/web_data/downloads/efworld/ef-world-03_2011web.pdf

UN système est en cours ou va entrer en service sur le Rafale.
Apparement un seul appui sur un bouton ,cela retablira l'avion en leger cabré a l'horizontale.

L'Automatic Low-Speed Recovery (ALSR) prend le contrôle de l'avion si l'équipage ne réagit pas ou ignore l'alarme...

http://www.eads.com/eads/int/en/news/press.en_20041104_low_speed.html a écrit:

If the pilot doesn´t react or ignores the warning, the ALSR will actively take control of the aircraft, select maximum dry power for the engines and return the aircraft to a safe flight condition depending on the attitude by either using an ALSR “push”, “pull” or a “knife-over” manoeuvre.

 

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09/09/2013

200'000 heures de vol pour l’Eurofighter !  



C’est un nouveau cap que vient de franchir la flotte en service d’Eurofighter « Typhoon II » avec le passage des 200'000 heures de vol. La flotte d’Eurofighter compte aujourd’hui 378 appareils en service au sein de sept armées de l’air, pour un total de 20 escadrilles.

La première tranche de 5’000 heures de vol a été atteinte en novembre 2005, puis les 10’000 heures en août 2006, les 20.000 en mai 2007. En août 2008, la flotte d’Eurofighter « Typhhon II »  a dépassé le seuil des 50.000 heures et les 100.000 heures de vol ont été atteintes en janvier 2011.



Photos : Cérémonie des 200'000 heures de vol @ Eurofighter

http://psk.blog.24heures.ch/archive/2013/09/09/200-000-heures-de-vol-pour-l-eurofighter-853792.html  

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Eurofighter upgrades move closer to operational release

A package of upgrades for the Eurofighter Typhoon has moved closer to operational release, following the completion of flight test activities by consortium partner company Cassidian.

Taking place at company sites in Manching, Germany and Getafe, Spain, the "intensive" test effort, using instrumented production aircraft 4 and 7, has validated the Phase 1 Enhancement (P1E) programme, says Cassidian. This, it adds, "delivers a simultaneous multi-/swing-role capability to the nations' air forces", and will be available to customers from end-2013.

"The Phase 1 Enhancements will provide a significant leap in the Eurofighter's operational capabilities. Deploying multiple weapons with attack constraints simultaneously in all weather has never been easier," says Chris Worning, Eurofighter project pilot at Cassidian.

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Key elements of the P1E package include the full integration of Rafael's Litening targeting pod and precision-guided bombs, and the full digital integration of the Diehl BGT Defence IRIS-T short-range air-to-air missile.

Coalition activities will be improved through the addition of Mode 5 identification friend-or-foe equipment, and updated Multifunctional Information Distribution System/Link 16 functionality, with improved radios also part of the package.

Further enhancements, including the integration of MBDA's Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile and an active electronically scanned array radar are also planned.

http://www.flightglobal.com

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Eurofighter To Fly Storm Shadow 'Any Day'

The Storm Shadow cruise missile will make its first flight on board a Eurofighter Typhoon during the Dubai air show, the Eurofighter Consortium tells Aviation Week ShowNews.

The weapon, a mock-up of which appears beneath the wing of the full-sized Typhoon model in the static display at the show, has long been part of the manufacturer’s plans for the platform. Its integration will be of particular interest at the show, given that current Typhoon customer Saudi Arabia and potential customer the United Arab Emirates both have the missile in their inventories.

“We’ve been working on Storm Shadow integration for the best part of a year, in terms of design concepts and avionics,” says Laurie Hilditch, Eurofighter’s head of future capabilities. Eurofighter has the aircraft “sitting technically ready to go, just waiting for the final pieces of legal paperwork.”

Italy-based development aircraft IPA2 is deploying to Decimomannu “and is due to fly the first Storm Shadow aerodynamic data-gathering missions any day,” Hilditch says. IPA7, in Germany, is ready to fly the Taurus missile, which is aerodynamically similar and will be used to derive associated data.

The planned configuration for a Storm Shadow-equipped Typhoon will be for two missiles to be carried, on the center-wing pylon currently used for fuel tanks. In that configuration, the aircraft would fly a single tank beneath the fuselage.

Also appearing on the Typhoon mockup at the show are conformal fuel tanks (CFTs) on the upper fuselage. Though these have been planned for over a decade, the option is only now nearing reality, but will only be available on Tranche 3B aircraft.

“When the aircraft was originally designed and built, CFTs were not part of the requirement,” Hilditch explains. “You need strengthened mounting points for CFTs, so we’ve redesigned frames in the centre fuselage, up on the shoulder area, and those provisions are built in to the Tranche 3B aeroplane.”

As no Tranche 3B aircraft has yet flown—BS116, the first Tranche 3A airframe, has completed ground tests and is due to make its first flight from BAE Systems’ Warton facility, possibly on December 13—Typhoon CFTs are still some way off. But, Hilditch says, “the detailed design [of the tanks] is pretty mature, so certainly within the next couple of years we’re going to be seeing CFTs around.”

http://www.aviationweek.com

2x Storm Shadow :

Je me demande de combien serait approximativement son rayon d'action avec cet exact emport et sans bidon externe ...  

D'où l'utilité de réservoirs conforme.

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Le premier Typhoon de la Tranche 3 prend son envol  

Le 04/12/2013 à 11:42   | Par Guillaume Steuer  

C'est un nouveau chapitre qui débute dans la longue saga de l'Eurofighter Typhoon. Le premier appareil de série issu de la troisième tranche de production – vu ici lors des essais moteur – a fait son vol inaugural le 2 décembre depuis l'aérodrome de Warton, fief de BAE Systems. Immatriculé ZK355 (BS116 dans la numérotation de l'avionneur), l'appareil est un monoplace destiné à équiper la Royal Air Force.

Par rapport aux appareils de la Tranche 2, les Eurofighter issus de cette nouveau lot comporteront un certain nombre de modifications structurelles, permettant notamment l'accueil d'un radar à balayage électronique actif et de réservoirs conformes sur le dessus du fuselage. Ils disposent dès leur sortie d'usine du standard logiciel P1E (Phase 1 Enhancements), qui a augmenté les capacités de l'avion notamment dans le domaine de l'air-sol.

Ce premier appareil devrait être officiellement livré à la Royal Air Force dans le courant du mois de décembre. Il est le premier d'une série de 112 avions commandés au titre de la "Tranche 3A" par les nations partenaires du programme, et devient de facto la configuration de base pour les avions qui seront commandés à l'export.

http://www.air-cosmos.com/defense/le-premier-typhoon-de-la-tranche-3-prend-son-envol.html

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'More cuts' and Eurofighter pain if EADS fails in bid to slash costs

In detailing plans unveiled yesterday to cut nearly 6,000 jobs as part of the previously-announced consolidation of its Cassidian defence and Astrium space divisions, EADS chief executive Tom Enders this morning called time on an “unwieldy” industrial structure that has left the businesses – which are only now emerging from decades of European national government control – unable to compete on cost when bidding for work outside European home markets.

The Eurofighter programme will be a particular target for restructuring, and could be in for more job cuts as early as 2016, if export sales are not secured to keep assembly lines active beyond the current 2017 schedule. Cassidian chief executive Bernhard Gerwert, who will head up Airbus Defence and Space when the two are formally joined sometime next year, says he is “optimistic” for two of the five export sales opportunities being contested by Eurofighter. However, he says the current programme structure – which maintains final assembly lines in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK – reflects aircraft demand in the four nations that make up the programme consortium. If any of those countries end procurement, he says, “we are free to cut”.

Gerwert adds that EADS is in discussions with partner BAE Systems about “restructuring” the Eurofighter consortium.

The scale of EADS’s competitiveness gap was revealed by Gerwert’s remark that SpaceX – the California start-up leading efforts to re-establish US space launch capabilities – has just launched a satellite to geosynchronous orbit with its new Falcon 9 rocket “that is 30% cheaper than [Astrium’s] Ariane [5]”. With that sort of cost disadvantage, he says, much of the Astrium business is simply not profitable.

Pressed on whether a cost gap that large could be cut by flexible labour practices, or whether it would be necessary to invest in a new generation of product, Enders points to the Ariane 6. This all-new launcher, in development for service from about 2020, is largely about slashing launch costs. However, even a new-generation product like Ariane 6, he says, “cannot work” in this “unwieldy industrial structure”.

And, he adds, if management is unable to reduce its cost base and “realise synergies” between Astrium and Cassidian, “this will not be the last restructuring”.

Enders, fielding press questions by conference call, stresses that the plan he revealed to union leaders yesterday was about changing working practices as much as reducing headcount. Drawing a parallel with the Power8 restructuring plan he led at Airbus from 2007 – when the civil airliners division was reeling from the euro-dollar exchange rate and the “disastrous” start to the A380 programme – Enders said the move to join Astrium and Cassidian into a new Airbus Defence and Space division was about “competitiveness”. Airbus surpassed its €2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) cost savings goal with Power8, which involved 8,000 job cuts.

The programme being discussed with unions now calls for 5,800 jobs to be cut, including 1,300 by allowing temporary contracts to lapse. Some 2,000 jobs will go in Germany, 1,260 in France, 557 in Spain, 450 in the UK and 180 in other countries. Up to 1,500 people may be absorbed by Airbus and Eurocopter over the coming three years, but Enders expects the total to be more like 800-1,000. Negotiations with the unions will be ongoing for several months, so it will be well into 2014 before details – including of compulsory layoffs – will be known.

In Germany, a major site at Unterschleissheim near Munich will close, with its functions moved to Ottobrunn. The Paris corporate office at Montmorency will be sold and its functions moved to Suresnes, where the corporate technical office is already based.

EADS has been in flux for more than a year, since a 2012 proposal to merge with BAE Systems. That deal would have created the world’s biggest aerospace company and vastly expanded EADS’s defence business, but it was ultimately quashed by the German government.

Although investors had doubts about the plan, it had won at least qualified support from the UK government and from France, which with Germany had at that time blocking control of EADS. French and German stakes in the company totalled 45% – a legacy of EADS’s creation more than a decade ago by the merger of French and German national aerospace champions that had been operating increasingly closely throughout the evolution of Airbus.

That legacy left the company burdened by a dual management structure that demanded co-holders – one French and one German – of all top jobs, as well as a doubling up of headquarters. Political meddling also left its mark, particularly in cumbersome workshare dealing that saw programmes divided up between the nations, including Spain and, early on, the UK – although BAE eventually sold its share of EADS.

The dual management structure was ended following what was widely perceived, by the mid-2000s, to be its inability to cope with the sort of problems that Power8 was designed to tackle. But the shareholding structure, which still gave Paris and Berlin much influence over management, became a target for Enders after Berlin blocked his BAE merger plan.

Late in 2012 the parties agreed to a new governance plan that has, for all intents and purposes, turned EADS into a “normal” company – with the majority of shares now freely traded on stock markets.

The extent of the shift in power from government shareholders to EADS management was made clear when Enders noted that, had his 2012 bid to merge EADS with BAE Systems gone ahead, there would be fewer job cuts today. One key feature of that merger plan – which was ultimately quashed by the German government – was a guarantee to Berlin that it would cost no German jobs.

http://www.flightglobal.com

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Gulf chill over UK fighter sales
• Huge deal to sell Typhoon fighters to UAE in doubt
• Implications for other Gulf arms deals after Iran nuclear talks


If there were any remaining doubts that arms sales take precedence over human rights or concerns about exacerbating regional tensions, the British government has been unashamedly quashing them.

UK prime minister David Cameron and his defence secretary Philip Hammond have been busy trying to persuade the rulers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to buy British Typhoon jets, following the example of Saudi Arabia and Oman.

The Saudis, the UK's largest arms customer, have bought 72 Typhoons, and the Omanis 12 in a deal backed by a UK government guaranteed loan of £2bn.

British ministers have been engaged in intensive talks with Bahrain over the sale of 12 Typhoon in a deal worth more than £1bn.

Cameron recently met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, in an attempt to persuade the UAE to buy 60 Typhoons in a deal valued at more than £6bn.

The UAE now seem to be having second thoughts, with a deal, expected to be announced before the end of the year, now reported to be "on hold".

British officials suggest it is simply because the UAE are being canny, being hard to get as the French are also in the market – trying to persuade the Gulf state to buy their Rafale aircraft instead of the Typhoon.

Seasoned observers of the Gulf scene, however, say there is more to it than that. The UAE, along with other Gulf states, have been being making friendly overtures to Iran following the election of that country's new president and the prospect of a deal on its nuclear programme.

They may not want to sign what would seem to be a provocative arms deal with a western country.

Gulf states may soon realise that they don't actually need the Typhoons – what they may need more urgently are weapons for use in internal repression...

Sarah Waldron, of CAAT, the campaign against the arms trade, said: "The crackdown in Bahrain has intensified, yet the UK does not speak out against the abuses that are daily committed by government forces".

(The Commons foreign affairs committee merely noted in a recent report that while defence cooperation and arms sales with Bahrain had "proved controversial" since the violent events of 2011, it was "persuaded that Bahrain provides an immensely valuable home in the Gulf for UK naval assets which would be difficult to find elsewhere".)

CAAT noted that in March 2011 Saudi Arabia employed British manufactured BAE Tactica armoured vehicles in Bahrain to support the Bahrain government crackdown on protesters.

(The Commons committee simply described Saudi Arabia as " important to the UK's defence, security and commercial interests.")

The government says the Typhoon deals with Gulf states will protect thousands of jobs at a time when other buyers for British arms – including the Ministry of Defence itself – are slashing their order books.

It also argues that if Britain does not sell fighters to then Gulf, then someone else – ie the French – will.

But the market for Typhoons seems very precarious and the British arms industry in danger of placing too many eggs in too few baskets.

http://www.theguardian.com

l´ironie de l´histoire,ils ont signé avec Iran derriere leur dos,et mtn ils pourraient ne plus se sentir en danger,d´ou non achat de leurs armes

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Seasoned observers of the Gulf scene, however, say there is more to it than that. The UAE, along with other Gulf states, have been being making friendly overtures to Iran following the election of that country's new president and the prospect of a deal on its nuclear programme.

They may not want to sign what would seem to be a provocative arms deal with a western country

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E scan Radar moves a step closer for Typhoon


Working in partnership with the Eurofighter and Euroradar consortiums, test aircraft IPA5 has been undergoing modifications and upgrades as part of the ongoing E scan Radar development and integration programme

Moving home

Now, in the latest phase of the programme, IPA5 has been moved from the Development hangar to the Typhoon Final Assembly hangar at Warton.

Mods and re-build phase complete

This move marks the completion of the modification and re-build phase which got under way in August 2012 and signals preparations for flight test of the aircraft.

Prepping for first flight

IPA5 will now undergo a series of tests including dedicated fuel and hydraulic system testing.  Following these activities, the first flight of the modified aircraft is expected to take place.

Enhancing Typhoon's capabilities

Already regarded as one of the world’s leading swing role combat aircraft, E scan Radar capitalises on the enhanced maturity of this technology, further enhances the platform’s capabilities and its desirability in the export market.

http://www.baesystems.com

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Le missile Taurus vole sur Eurofighter  

Le 16/01/2014 à 11:43   | Par Guillaume Steuer  


Le premier vol du Taurus sur Eurofighter a eu lieu le 15 janvier.

Après le Storm Shadow, voici venu le Taurus : le missile de croisière KEPD 350 a décollé sur Eurofighter à l'occasion d'un premier vol captif réalisé hier 15 janvier en Allemagne par Airbus Defence & Space à l'aide de l'avion d'essais IPA 7. Deux maquettes de l'engin étaient emportées sous voilure, en plus d'un réservoir central et de deux maquettes de missiles air-air courte portée Iris-T.

Développé par le consortium Taurus Missile Systems GmbH (MBDA/Saab Bofors), le KEPD 350 est un armement de longue portée (environ 500 km) affichant de fortes capacités de pénétration contre des cibles durcies.

Ces travaux entamés sur Eurofighter ne présagent pas pour l'instant d'une intégration complète sur le biréacteur de combat européen, aucun client n'ayant pour l'heure financer ces travaux. Les essais en cours contribueront en fait à recueillir des données pour ouvrir le domaine de vol de l'appareil avec ce type de charges lourdes sous voilure – le Taurus étant assez comparable au Storm Shadow en termes d'encombrement et de masse, et ce dernier faisant l'objet d'un programme d'intégration financé en grande partie par l'Arabie Saoudite.

L'Allemagne, qui utilise ce même missile sur ses Tornado, pourrait prendre une décision cette année au sujet d'une éventuelle intégration sur ses Eurofighter. Mais l'une des options considérées étant le maintien des Tornado jusqu'en 2035 (soit, peu ou prou, la fin de vie estimée des missiles Taurus), une intégration financée par Berlin sur Typhoon n'aurait que peu de sens si ce scénario était retenu. Le Taurus avait également été proposé à l'Inde par Eurofighter dans le cadre de la compétition MMRCA.

Séoul a récemment annoncé sa décision d'acquérir ce missile afin de doter ses Boeing F-15K d'un capacité de frappe dans la profondeur.

http://www.air-cosmos.com/defense/le-missile-taurus-vole-sur-eurofighter.html

bizarre que madrid ne demande pas son integration

Yakuza a écrit:

bizarre que madrid ne demande pas son integration

C’est à cause L’austérité qui frappe l’armée espagnole

leur budget militaire a diminué de 25% au cours de ces 4 dernières années.

le quotidien El Pais a fait état du plan “Vision 2025″ qui consiste à réduire les effectifs des forces armées espagnoles de 20.000 hommes (sur 130.000) ainsi que le nombre d’employés civils de la Défense de 5.000.
L’Ejército de Tierra (forces terrestres) sera la plus touchée par ce plan puisqu’elle verra fondre ses effectifs de 10.000 hommes, soit, deux brigades. L’Armada (marine) et l’Ejército de Aire (air) perdront chacune 5.000 postes.

  
http://www.defensa.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11203:el-presupuesto-de-defensa-espanol-cruza-la-linea-rojaq-la-armada-puede-perder-el-arma-aerea-embarcada-y-el-ejercito-del-aire-a-punto-de-perder-la-capacidad-de-repostaje-aereo&catid=54:espana&Itemid=162