Eurofighter Typhoon - The Future of Airpower

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine canard-delta wing multirole aircraft. It is being designed and built by a consortium of three separate partner companies: Alenia Aeronautica, BAE Systems, and EADS working through a holding company Eurofighter GmbH which was formed in 1986. The project is managed by NETMA (NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency) which acts as the prime customer.

The series production of the Eurofighter Typhoon is underway, and the aircraft is being procured under three separate contracts (referred to as "tranches"), each for aircraft with successively greater capabilities. The aircraft has entered service with the UK Royal Air Force, the German Luftwaffe, the Italian Air Force, the Spanish Air Force, the Austrian Air Force and the Saudi Arabian Air Force.

The maiden flight of the Eurofighter prototype took place on 27 March 1994. Dasa chief test pilot Peter Weger took the prototype on a test flight around Bavaria. The 1990s saw significant arguments over work share, the specification of the aircraft and even participation in the project.

The fighter achieves high agility at both supersonic and low speeds by having a relaxed stability design. It has a quadruplex digital fly-by-wire control system providing artificial stability, as manual operation alone could not compensate for the inherent instability. The fly-by-wire system is described as "carefree" by preventing the pilot from exceeding the permitted manoeuvre envelope.

Navigation is via both GPS and an inertial navigation system. The Typhoon can use Instrument Landing System (ILS) for landing in poor weather.

The aircraft also features an advanced Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) based on the TERPROM Terrain Referenced Navigation (TRN) system used by Tornado but further enhanced and fully integrated into the cockpit displays and controls.

In 2004, United States Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. Jumper said after flying the Eurofighter:
" I have flown all the air force jets. None was as good as the Eurofighter."

Two Typhoons were sent to intercept a Russian Tupolev Tu-95 approaching British airspace on 17 August 2007.

In September 2009, 5 RAF Typhoons deployed to RAF Mount Pleasant to begin the mission of defending the Falkland Islands. They replace the Tornado F3 and are the most sophisticated fighter aircraft in the southern hemisphere.

Armament:
Gun: 1x 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon 150 rounds
Air-to-Air missiles:
AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-132 ASRAAM, AIM-120 AMRAAM, IRIS-T and in the future MBDA Meteor
Air-to-Ground missiles: AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-88 HARM, ALARM, Storm Shadow (AKA "Scalp EG"), Brimstone, Taurus KEPD 350, Penguin and in the future AGM Armiger
Bombs: Paveway 2, Paveway 3, Enhanced Paveway, JDAM, HOPE/HOSBO
Laser designator, e.g. LITENING pod

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[Pringles352]

KEEP THIS PLANE IN EUROPE!! NONE TO SAUDI, NONE TO AUSTRALIA!! KEEP IT EUROPEAN!! EU rising as the new superpower, the no.1 economy, a unified military with nearly 2m soldiers, the most advanced airforces and navies in the world, yet remaining independant to our own nations. and on top of it sits Britannia... :)

[alexanderlondon]

EUROPE RULES!

[Brandonbigone87]

F22 is the best and latest. This is a great aircraft I agree. But no where near the f-22

[esprit83990]

the country of EU ,would must buy for them AIR FORCE TYPHOON or RAFALE, they are together products by EU (typhoon spain,germany,italy,uk) and (rafale france)

[SorrybutJebiga]

i want to serbia buy this not americans and russians jet

[Analog32]

I agree with Sorrybutjebiga best fighter in the world !!!

[SorrybutJebiga]

best aircfaft in world

[spanishhornets]

very beautiful video!!

congratulations from Spain

[richieify]

Eurofighter Typhoon just Great .

[aspiringdrummer17]

@Rasakins Lets hope they don't buy the Rafale