We couldn't afford it. Will be only slightly less than what export of F35 to a non partner would cost.
Like 15-20% more cost than Rafale.
Eurofighter Typhoon - Updates and Discussions
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Like 15-20% more cost than Rafale.
Qatar receives its first Eurofighter Typhoon at official ceremony in the UK
On Monday, 15 August 2022, the first Typhoon aircraft was delivered to the Qatar Armed Forces at a roll-out ceremony hosted by Cliff Robson, BAE Systems Group, Managing Director Air.
Egypt set for imminent Eurofighter purchase
The Egyptian government looks set to imminently sign a multi-billion dollar deal with its Italian counterparts for Eurofighter Typhoons
This is weird. Egypt already has Rafales in numbers. And russian birds.
If it's done, this is a political deal, not an operational one.
If it's done, this is a political deal, not an operational one.
Whereas the Typhoon radar has undergone substantially more development and testing time. The Rafale AESA was more a Gen I AESA for marketing purposes.
Seems like that's all the Eurofighter is good for. Participating in air shows. Talk about making a hash of a good fighter aircraft program.
How many Eurofighters on order pending delivery by any of the member countries Paddy vis a vis how many JSFs on order by these same nations? You'd get your answer.
RAF’s Typhoons and Voyager participate in Pitch Black 22 for first time
The UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Typhoons and a Voyager tanker aircraft are participating in the multinational exercise Pitch Black 2022 for the first time.
www.airforce-technology.com
British jets in massive Australian combat exercise
Britain has tested its ability to "deploy air power at speed to any part of the world".
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
New Eurofighter arrivals include Kuwait’s first single-seat Typhoon
Kuwait has taken delivery of its latest pair of Leonardo-assembled Eurofighter Typhoons, including the first single-seat example to have been received by the Gulf state.
www.flightglobal.com
When is the ecrs mk2 supposed to be ready?New Eurofighter arrivals include Kuwait’s first single-seat Typhoon
Kuwait has taken delivery of its latest pair of Leonardo-assembled Eurofighter Typhoons, including the first single-seat example to have been received by the Gulf state.
UK details revised schedule for Typhoon’s ECRS Mk2 radar introduction
Leonardo UK will deliver a first flight-test example of the ECRS Mk2 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon before year-end, with the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) service introduction schedule for the combination now targeted at the end of this decade.One of the RAF’s Tranche 3 Typhoons – aircraft BS116 (ZK355) – is now in the flight-test hangar at BAE Systems’ Warton site in Lancashire and set to enter the preparation phase for receiving the new radar system.
Following the completion of integration work and ground-based testing, the AESA system is expected to undergo flight-testing from late 2023, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme official says.
Ross Wilson, Leonardo UK’s radar chief engineer, says the company currently has the sensor in testing using its roof-top laboratory in Edinburgh. “It is real, tested equipment, and we are now testing software,” he says. Due to be transferred to Warton later this year, the system re-uses some equipment previously employed during a UK trials campaign named Bright Adder.
For the pending test phase, a spare radar also will be supplied to Warton, plus around “six additional items” to support work up to the initial operational capability (IOC) milestone being declared. At least two flight-test aircraft will be involved, along with personnel and additional assets from the RAF’s 41 Sqn test and evaluation unit.
The MoD says service introduction will represent the availability of “a robust capability, which means the training and support systems are [also] in place”, and offer “something that you can rely on and take to war”.
“You need something you can put your hand on and actually deliver and [have] work in an operational environment and in a way that you can sustain,” the MoD programme official notes. “Ukraine has adjusted our whole mindset,” they add.
“It’s not so much M-scan or E-scan: if you get the boxes behind the architecture right then you can do what you want,” the official says. “We must be able to adapt to the enemy quicker and cheaper. We have to win the financial war as an operator – you need to win the speed of adaptation. So it becomes a proxy between programmers.”
The UK will acquire ECRS Mk2 sensors to equip 40 Tranche 3 Typhoons, with the technology – which also will offer electronic attack functionality – to additionally be suitable for incorporation with Tranche 2 examples. At the time of the programme’s launch in September 2020 the IOC milestone was aimed at occurring in 2025; a schedule later revised to 2028.
Disclosing the revised 2030 expectation during a Public Accounts Committee hearing on 28 February, UK Defence Equipment & Support chief executive Sir Simon Bollom noted: “It is more than a radar. It has to integrate with the defensive aids systems on the aircraft. It has to be part of the mission system in the aircraft. That is part of a bigger programme on Typhoon called P4E.” Integration activities on the Tranche 3 fleet will commence in 2026, he said.
Fresh funding for the ECRS 2 effort is due to be approved from late this year, with this to clear the way for production and equipment delivery.
Meanwhile, the RAF has made an early adoption of the latest TSP6-standard update for the Typhoon’s current Captor-M mechanically-scanned array. “That radar is absolutely singing right now,” the MoD official notes.
Separately, BAE is continuing flight testing from Warton of the P3EB capability update package for the Typhoon, using instrumented production aircraft IPA6, with around a dozen flights completed by 24 May.
Ground trials involving aircraft BS131 (ZK370) to prove updated functionality for the MBDA Brimstone air-to-surface missile also are being performed in support of a future P3EC modification, says Andy Flynn, Typhoon capability delivery director at BAE Systems Air.
It is especially that the first developments were thrown away (CAESAR), because they did not work, so that the development of CAPTOR-E began only in 2014, that is to say 2 years after the RBE2 was operational.
The CAPTOR-E AESA radar - Defense Archives
The CAPTOR radar family provides the main sensor for the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft. This article gives a deeper insight into the second iteration: CAPTOR-E.
defensearchives.org
You say it as if it means something? The rafale has an obsolete backend and and an AESA antenna. Let me know when the new F4 radar is available and what it can do.
As with a sound system, where a 10w speaker can put out more sound than a 100w speaker. Raw output means little.
I haven't followed the eurofighter much. I'm surprised they aren't going GaN
As with a sound system, where a 10w speaker can put out more sound than a 100w speaker. Raw output means little.
I haven't followed the eurofighter much. I'm surprised they aren't going GaN
Does rafale have any plan to introduce Radar capable of Jamming others, just like an EW suite.
This is the work of SPECTRA on 360°. With F4, the radar antenna becomes multi-functional and can be used by SPECTRA and by telecommunications.
This means more range, and we compensate for our choice of a "small" nose, which gives an advantage from the point of view of stealth and aerodynamics, with more advanced technology, particularly for heat extraction.
With these modules, the Rafale's small radar has the same range performance as the F-35's radar, while retaining the advantages already mentioned.
That is as I said, not necessarily true. It depends on the efficiency of the T/R. It is also a fact that the more you spike above the noise floor. The easier it is to detect, even with LPI.
More advanced? The rafale's radar is tarted up from the Mirage. This isn't a good street for you to go down.
You are getting quite delusional now. When you say it exceeds the capability of the F-35
More advanced? The rafale's radar is tarted up from the Mirage. This isn't a good street for you to go down.
You are getting quite delusional now. When you say it exceeds the capability of the F-35