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The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. [3] [4] The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter [5] and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH.
The Kuwait Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الكويتية, romanized: al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya) is the air arm of the Armed Forces of Kuwait.The Air Force headquarters is located at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Air Base, with the remaining forces stationed at Air Defense Brigades, Ali Al Salem Air Base and Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base.
This Captor-E radar will be gradually installed on many of these aircraft as it has come into service. Tranche 3A of Kuwait Air Force is the first serial production batch to receive Captor-E during manufacturing. [14] Captor-E equipped variants are more capable as a multirole combat aircraft. Air/Ground—SPEAR 3, Marte-ER, LITENING IV & V
Eurofighter and other fighter builders responded to a request for information issued by the Indonesian government in January 2015 for a fighter to replace the ageing F-5s currently in service with the Air Force. [165] Eurofighter offered its latest version of the Typhoon, equipped with Captor-E AESA radar, for Indonesia's F-5 replacement ...
12 July - the first Eurofighter for Austria is delivered to the Austrian Air Force. [7] 2008 16 January - the first Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon makes its first flight. [8] 22 October - first flight of Typhoon in Royal Saudi Air Force livery. [9] 2009 12 June - first Saudi Typhoons delivered. [10] 25 November - 200th Typhoon delivered. [11]
Captor-E radar pictured in London in 2019. The Euroradar Captor is a next-generation mechanical multi-mode pulse Doppler radar designed for the Eurofighter Typhoon.Development of Captor led to the Airborne Multirole Solid State Active Array Radar (AMSAR) project which eventually produced the CAESAR (Captor Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar), now known as Captor-E.
German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon 31+17 during takeoff, July 2010. In October 2008, the Eurofighter nations were considering splitting the 236-fighter Tranche 3 into two parts. [13] In June 2009, RAF Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy suggested that the RAF fleet could be 123 jets, instead of the 232 previously planned. [14]
In 1976, the Kuwait Armed Forces took delivery of Dassault Mirage F1s to be operated by the Kuwait Air Force. During the same year, the Kuwait Air Force retired the Bell 206 and Bell 204/205 from service. In 1977, the Kuwait Armed Forces initiated the first drill training with the United States Armed Forces. During the same year, authorities ...