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The Eurofighter Typhoon fleet is celebrating after passing the 500,000 flying hours mark, as the cements its place at the heart of European air defense. The Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH confirmed that the multi-role combat aircraft’s fleet of 623 airframes passed the half million hour mark thanks to recent deliveries of new aircraft and increased policing and combat operations.
 

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Industry Offer for Eurofighter’s AESA Radar Production Due This Month
(Source: Defense-Aerospace.com; posted Dec 10, 2018)

PARIS --- The industry consortium developing the new AESA radar for the Eurofighter is due to submit its offer for the production and retrofit of the Captor-E radar by the end of the month.

The offer will be submitted to the NETMA, the program’s executive agency, and could be followed by a production order as early as mid-2019, according to the German defense ministry’s autumn report on armaments programs, released Dec. 7. NETMA – the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency – manages the two programs on behalf of the UK, Germany, Spain and Italian governments.

The Captor-E consortium is developing the AESA radar under a €1 billion contract awarded on Nov. 19, 2014, to Eurofighter Jadgflugzeug GmbH by NETMA, and completed hardware development in June, the report states.

No production decision has yet been taken for the four partner countries, but as the Eurofighters to be delivered to Kuwait in late 2020 are to be the first with the AESA radar, initial production radars must be delivered in 2019.

However, there have been delays in complex software development due to resource constraints, and their effects are being examined so the necessary mitigation steps can be worked out, the report adds.


This means that the target date for retrofit of the Captor-E radar in German Eurofighters, while h aving been delayed to 2022, can nevertheless be realized.

Updates to the Eurofighter program, including obsolescence elimination, development of the EURODASS, role adaptation, and integration of the METEOR missile) have added €585 million over the initial estimate, according to the report, while the AESA radar has added €78 million to Germany’s costs.

In order to cover the needs of the four nations, the radar’s development included a multi-channel receiver (MCR), and in September 2017 industry was asked to submit a related offer by the end of 2018.

In the meantime, “The consequences of industry-indicated delays in the ongoing development of the AESA radar and the mitigation measures proposed by the industry must be thoroughly analyzed and critically assessed,” the report adds.

The future of the program is complicated by the fact that, while Germany is complementing the ongoing development with a multi-channel receiver, the United Kingdom, on the other hand, continues to demand a new radar development which focuses on the application for electronic warfare.

“In terms of armament policy, key technologies in the field of reconnaissance sensors use German-developed and secured systems, the availability of which is of substantial security interest for the Federal Republic of Germany,” according to the report. “The shares in the development and manufacturing program of the AESA radar contribute to maintain national engineering and manufacturing capacity in this segment.”

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?shop=dae&modele=release&prod=198268&cat=3

=> EF is late, very late on AESA capacity.
Not good for India for exemple (MMRCA2), when the main competitor is on duty for more than 5 years, and has nearly 20 years of feed back with PESA...
 

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Hensoldt Forges Ahead with the Development of Eurofighter Radar

...Following the successful acceptance test, Hensoldt has now delivered the second antenna ready for series production to Leonardo UK in Edinburgh. This means that the production of the so-called e-scan antenna can commence at the Hensoldt site in Ulm/Germany according to plan. This paves the way for the delivery of the first radar systems as of mid-2019.

As early as spring 2018, the radar has successfully completed two flight campaigns at British Aerospace Systems (BAES) in Warton and at Airbus Defence and Space in Manching and met the requirements of the Critical Design Review (CDR) exactly on schedule. ...
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/ar...s-production-antennas-for-captor_e-radar.html

AESA radar for export orders (Kuwait, Qatar, MMRCA 2.0), available from 2019 onwards.

AESA for partner countries, to upgrade T2 and T3A fighters, is yet to be cleared and planned for delivery from 2020 onwards, depending on customer schedule.
 

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http://www.defense-aerospace.com/ar...s-production-antennas-for-captor_e-radar.html

AESA radar for export orders (Kuwait, Qatar, MMRCA 2.0), available from 2019 onwards.

AESA for partner countries, to upgrade T2 and T3A fighters, is yet to be cleared and planned for delivery from 2020 onwards, depending on customer schedule.
2019.... it's tomorrow....
No way a first operationnal radar to be delivered next year. It's just my opinion. Just let's see what happen really.
 

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2019.... it's tomorrow....
No way a first operationnal radar to be delivered next year. It's just my opinion. Just let's see what happen really.
Well, your "opinions" were proven to be wrong several times, because you base them mainly on bias not on credible info's or facts.
And it looks like my guess about Marte ER and Kuwait was right too =>

...Kuwait’s Typhoons will be the first to use the Lockheed Martin Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP), which has recently been upgraded to include two-color laser spot tracking, short-wave infrared, and advanced non-traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (NTISR) modes. Lockheed Martin signed a contract with Leonardo Aircraft for the supply of 18 pods, together with integration and logistics support for the Kuwait Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon.

Integration of the Marte ER anti-ship missile has also been started, based on what Eurofighter refers to as “formal interest from one of Eurofighter’s export customers”—understood to be Kuwait.

Integration of the Marte ER was originally examined following interest from a Eurofighter export customer in 2011, along with the Saab RBS15 and the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon. This early work was followed in 2014 by some preliminary work by MBDA and Leonardo. A contract for the System Definition Phase was then signed in May 2016, and this defined the engineering and interface activities that would be required to get to a final clearance. Kuwait’s Typhoons are also due to be equipped to carry DRS-Cubic ACMI P5 combat training pods and will be fitted with an enhanced navigation aid with VOR.

So besides AESA, another major game changer for the EF and that also shows that the radar one must have more modes than initially planned (only A2A).

It took far too long for the EF to get to this full multi role capable stage, but now as it gets there, it turns our to be the new benchmark!

- flight performance
- radar and IRST detection
- Meteor / AAM load capabilities
- CAS weapon and load variety
- Maritime attack capability with up to 4 x Marte ER + 3 fuel tanks + 6 AAMs
- coming SEAD capability with SPEAR 3 (and / or AARGM)

All best in it's class, with the potential for further improvement thanks to CFTs.
 

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Well, your "opinions" were proven to be wrong several times, because you base them mainly on bias not on credible info's or facts.
And it looks like my guess about Marte ER and Kuwait was right too =>



So besides AESA, another major game changer for the EF and that also shows that the radar one must have more modes than initially planned (only A2A).

It took far too long for the EF to get to this full multi role capable stage, but now as it gets there, it turns our to be the new benchmark!

- flight performance
- radar and IRST detection
- Meteor / AAM load capabilities
- CAS weapon and load variety
- Maritime attack capability with up to 4 x Marte ER + 3 fuel tanks + 6 AAMs
- coming SEAD capability with SPEAR 3 (and / or AARGM)

All best in it's class, with the potential for further improvement thanks to CFTs.
Wait and see my dear.. .
 

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Very well, but if that turns out to be true, be fair and admit that it's better than Rafale at least in certain fields. :smile:

Happy new year btw!
So for with no AESA, larger RCS, no comparable system to SPECTRA, no significant advantage in kinetic performance, OEMs buying F 35 aka cost of upgrade moved to export countries, it is a big NO for any acquisition plan.
 

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