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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.
Eurofighter offered its latest version of the Typhoon, equipped with Captor-E AESA radar, for Indonesia's F-5 replacement programme. [167] In a letter to the Austrian Minister of Defence , Indonesia expressed willingness to buy its entire fleet of 15 Typhoons that have been operating in the Austrian Air Force since 2008.
The Typhoon T1 is a Tranche 1, batch 1 two-seat trainer. The first Typhoon T1 is one of the Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA1) and remains part of the BAE fleet. The aircraft's maiden flight was on 15 April 2002. The official in service date for the first RAF Typhoon T1, serial ZJ803, was 30 June 2003. [25] [unreliable source?
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey began talks with European states on buying 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets after recognising that its request for F-16 jets from the United States might not work out, a ...
Eurofighter EF2000 with both EJ200s in full reheat DECU/DECMU of a Eurojet EJ200D engine The Eurojet EJ200 is a military low-bypass turbofan used as the powerplant of the Eurofighter Typhoon . The engine is largely based on the Rolls-Royce XG-40 technology demonstrator, which was developed in the 1980s.
On November 29, Germany’s parliament authorized funding for Airbus to convert 15 of their air force’s (the Luftwaffe’s) Eurofighter Typhoon fighters into a micro fleet of specialized Typhoon ...
The Eurofighter Typhoon can cruise around Mach 1.2 without afterburner, with the maximum level speed without reheat is Mach 1.5. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] An EF T1 DA (Development Aircraft trainer version) demonstrated supercruise (1.21 M) with 2 SRAAM, 4 MRAAM and drop tank (plus 1-tonne flight-test equipment, plus 700 kg more weight for the ...
A Eurofighter Typhoon from No. 3(F) Squadron takes off in 2008. Coningsby was the first airfield to receive the Phantoms, [10] the Tornado ADV [10] and was the first to receive its replacement, the Eurofighter Typhoon. Typhoon arrived in May 2005 with No. 17 Squadron, after the RAF first publicly displayed the aircraft at Coningsby in December ...