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The first Eurofighters ever deployed to a Bulgarian Air Base for operational missions... this October to take part in a joint exercise with MiG-29’s... a pair of two-seat Eurofighters from the Italian Air Force's 4th Wing deployed to Graf Ignatievo AB... The Exercise included six flights totalling 15 hours flying time [dato de autonomía: haciendo cuenta casera, salen misiones de 2,5 horas sin repostaje en vuelo] in which, as usual, the aircraft recorded 100% operational availability... Bulgarian pilots who also had the chance to fly them.
... missions which included Basic Fighter Manoeuvres, Air-to-Air Engagement, and also Super Cruise (with under wing tanks, something that the Eurofighter can handle easily).
The very narrow IFOV of its high sensitivity LWIR detector supports long BVR combat scenarios featuring accurate angular location and discrimination of opponents in combat formation.
It enables passive ranging of multiple targets through dynamic change of target bearing.
During missile engagements, it supports safe, long range assessment of weapon effects for a more effective situational awareness.
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Under the right conditions and in combination with a designation pod and in combination with the EW suite it offers the possibility to perform silent ground attack.
PIRATE is intrinsically unaffected by known countermeasure conditions.
Within the same ‘box’ the PIRATE contains imaging modes supporting A-S and A-A recognition and identification through cueing of ground targets and visual identification.
The fixed FLIR mode supports low level operations including navigation with simultaneous threat detection and landing aid modes.
It is designed to be fully integrated also with the HMD offering the option of steerable IR image without NVG.
Need to gain an early tally on a suspected enemy fighter located by the radar? The HMD cues your eyes to the correct piece of sky to help you gain ‘eyes on’; in a similar fashion it will direct you to the position of your formation members using positional information supplied by datalink.
Close Air Support (CAS) operations with Army ground units historically required extended radio conversations to locate and differentiate friendly forces from adjacent enemy positions. HMD will display ground positions to the pilot, enabling almost instantaneous recognition of the ground situation and a rapid strike saving coalition forces’ lives.
Whilst other aircraft make similar claims, only Eurofighter Typhoon possesses both adequate weapon availability (up to 6 bombs whilst also carrying 6 missiles, a canon and a targeting pod) and sufficient processing power and capacity to support missile in-flight updates and bomb in-flight targeting – at the same time. A true Swing Role Capability.
The total cost per funded flying hour is provided in the table below.
Aircraft Cost Financial Year 2009-10 (£/hour)
Tornado GR4 28,000
Tornado F3 45,000
Typhoon 90,000
This includes forward and depth servicing, fuel costs, crew costs, training costs and the cost of capital charge and depreciation. The Typhoon cost per flying hour reflects the smaller numbers of aircraft currently in the fleet and their relatively short period in service. This is expected to reduce significantly over the in-service life of the aircraft.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id ... g284989.q0
The estimated average full cost per funded flying hour is provided in the following table:
Aircraft Cost, financial year 2010-11 (£/hour)
Harrier GR7/GR9 37,000
Tornado GR4 35,000
Tornado F3 43,000
Typhoon 70,000
These figures include forward and depth servicing, fuel costs, crew costs, training costs, cost of capital charge, depreciation and amortisation. The Typhoon cost per flying hour reflects the build up of the fleet with smaller numbers of aircraft currently in service; this cost is expected to reduce significantly over the in-service life of the aircraft.
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Y en febrero de 2012 vuelven a citar esa cifra de 2010/11 como buena (las 70.000 libras/hora):
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id ... #g89929.q0
Noviembre de 2012:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the average hourly cost was of flying the Typhoon fighter with and without fuel costs.
The standard marginal flying hour cost for a Typhoon is £3,875, including the cost of fuel. Excluding fuel costs the figure reduces to approximately £2,670.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id ... g126215.q0
Beyond the UAE, AIN has been told that Bahrain is closest to making a commitment to the Typhoon. This could come as early as next January, during the Bahrain Air Show.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ ... ai-airshow
Bahrain moves closer to Typhoon deal
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... al-393154/
Eurofighter To Fly Storm Shadow 'Any Day'
The Storm Shadow cruise missile will make its first flight on board a Eurofighter Typhoon during the Dubai Air Show [no allí, en Dubai, si no en estos días en Italia.]
Italy-based development aircraft IPA2 is deploying to Decimomannu “and is due to fly the first Storm Shadow aerodynamic data-gathering missions any day,” says Hilditch. IPA7, in Germany, is ready to fly the Taurus missile, which is aerodynamically similar and will be used to derive associated data. [Parece que el Taurus podría volar en las próximas semanas en el IPA 7 alemán.]
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Also appearing on the Typhoon mockup at the [Dubai] show are conformal fuel tanks (CFTs) on the upper fuselage. Though these have been planned for over a decade, the option is only now nearing reality, but will only be available on Tranche 3B aircraft. [Esto es un error, sea del representante de EFA o del medio. Los CFT eran una posibilidad para la T3, sin A ni B. Es como el AESA: estaría para la T3B pero por cronología, no porque los T3A no estén listos para recibirlo.]
“When the aircraft was originally designed and built, CFTs were not part of the requirement,” Hilditch explains. “You need strengthened mounting points for CFTs, so we’ve redesigned frames in the centre fuselage, up on the shoulder area, and those provisions are built in to the Tranche 3B aeroplane.” [Otro error, la T3A ya está preparada: reforzada, con los enganches y con las válvulas necesarias para los CFT.]
As no Tranche 3B aircraft has yet flown —the first Tranche 3A is due to make its first flight possibly on December 13— Typhoon CFTs are still some way off [Que no, que es un error, que también la T3A puede llevarlos]. But, says Hilditch, “the detailed design [of the tanks] is pretty mature, so certainly within the next couple of years we’re going to be seeing CFTs around.” [En resumen, que no es que la T3A no esté lista, si no que los depósitos en sí aún no están producidos, que es algo muy diferente.]
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.asp ... 637579.xml
Orel escribió:
Y detalles del nuevo número de la revista Eurofighter World: http://www.eurofighter.com/files/pdf/Eu ... Nov_13.pdf
SERIES PRODUCTION - STATUS (a/c = aircraft)
United Kingdom: 115 a/c delivered
Germany: 105 a/c delivered
Spain: 51 a/c delivered (10 almacenados en Albacete a la espera)
Italy: 71 a/c delivered
Austria: 15 a/c delivered
Saudi Arabia: 32 a/c delivered
In Total: 389 production a/c + 1 fatigue test delivered (571 firmados incluyendo Omán)
dacer escribió:
no creo que sea reciente. La base no parece movil
Hola Orel y compañía..., hay una pequeña imprecisión en la cantidad de Typhoon entregados a España...
bandua escribió:dacer escribió:no creo que sea reciente. La base no parece movil
deben de ser del primer AESA con base fija y que creo voló en 2007.
Ah, y gracias a Orel por el montón de info que ha colgado los últimos días.
“A major goal of the tests is to assess the Storm Shadow in flight and to achieve clearance for the full integration on the Eurofighter Typhoon by 2015,” the company says. This process will also be supported by using the German/Swedish-developed Taurus cruise missile, which will be flown with IPA 7 from Cassidian’s Manching site in Germany from December.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... on-393331/
Eurofighter Typhoon Path Becoming Clear
November 18, 2013
...At a media briefing here tomorrow (Wednesday), the company hopes to announce the first test flight in Italy of an aircraft carrying the MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missile.
A Lockheed Martin Sniper targeting pod is displayed below the full-scale model here. Hilditch said that fourth-generation pods like this can be integrated as part of P2E. The four partner nations chose the Israeli Litening pod, so the alternative Thales Damocles pod was integrated as part of the Al-Salam contract for the Royal Saudi Air Force. Of note, the Royal Saudi Air Force already flies the Sniper pod.
Hilditch said that the program “was trying to make intelligent choices about weapons integration–the choices and sequence.” The Storm Shadow integration will likely form part of the Phase 2B Enhancement Package (P2E-B) for delivery by 2017. The equivalent German weapon–the KEPD 350 Taurus–will also soon fly on a test aircraft (IPA7 in Germany) “because the aerodynamics read across to the Storm Shadow clearance.”
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These [los CFT] are being proposed to export customers, rather than the four European partners, although the latest-production Tranche 3 jets for Germany, Italy, Spain and UK do make structural provision for their carriage.
Eurofighter is planning to fly two jets with the E-scan radar, the single-seat IPA5 and the twin-seat IPA8. “The E-scan radar will be available to the market when our current and potential customers need it,” the company said.
Eurofighter has made only passing reference to the electronic attack (EA) possibilities that are an inherent capability of AESA radars. The UK is known to be funding research into the waveforms required for EA under the Bright Adder program. This capability would likely be added as part of a Phase 3 Enhancement (P3E) package sometime after 2017.
P3E could also include anti-ship missiles (AShMs), which are likely to be required by current and future export customers. At the last Dubai Airshow, Eurofighter displayed a Marte AShM, but the Saab Rbs15 was in the offer that Eurofighter made to the Indian air force. Hilditch said that the customers could decide which AShMs they prefer.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ ... ming-clear
No timeline on UAE Typhoon deal, says UK defence official
19 November 2013
A deal over the UAE’s much-coveted fighter jet contract appears unlikely anytime soon with UK minister for defence equipment, support and technology Philip Dunne saying he could not put a timeline on the “significant” and “lengthy” negotiations.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/no-timel ... 26935.html
El Centro de Entrenamiento de Pilotos del Ala 11 ya cuenta con su tercer simulador de vuelo.
20/11/2013
El Ala 11 dispone ya de un tercer simulador ASTA (Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids) dentro de su Centro de Instrucción en la Base Aérea de Morón.
Dicho simulador es del tipo "Full Mission Simulator" (FMS), el más completo, dotado de un sistema visual de 360 grados en forma de domo y con posibilidad de entrenar con el equipo completo de vuelo. Este equipo se utiliza, junto con el asiento, para transmitir las sensaciones de movimiento al piloto.
Este simulador se integra con los otros dos simuladores existentes (otro FMS y un Cockpit Trainer CT) y permite realizar misiones en red de tres aviones de forma conjunta y simultánea. Con esta adquisición el Centro de Instrucción de C.16 Eurofighter aumenta significativamente sus capacidades de instrucción a nivel operativo, del cual se beneficiarán las tripulaciones del Ala 11 y del Ala 14, unidades que operan este tipo de avión, además de incrementar la calidad y nivel de enseñanza impartida en el 113 Escuadrón del Ala 11 como Unidad de Conversión Operativa.
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/ea/pa ... 2900385334
Moving further north, part of the Typhoon-the fuselage-is being built in Samlesbury and shipped to Warton to be assembled. Moreover, important parts of the F-35-the JSF-are currently being made. A few weeks ago, I saw those parts-the tailfins and the back of the fuselage-on the assembly line at Samlesbury. Those parts were then shipped to Fort Worth, Texas, where they were assembled on to the aircraft.
The reason why BAES has secured that important work share in the project [fabricar esas partes del F-35] is that, largely as a result of the Typhoon, it has achieved engineering tolerances in automated machining that are greatly superior to those achieved in the United States. The F-22 had to be largely machined manually, because the Americans could not achieve the high tolerances on an automatic line that are required for aircraft subjected to those kinds of strains and stresses [realmente es por la necesidad furtiva]. BAE Systems has solved those engineering problems and is making that vital contribution to the F-35 programme. That is a good example of the synergy that exists between aircraft programmes, and it has certainly incorporated the remarkable skills of people in Samlesbury.
Then there is Warton, which, in addition to assembling the Typhoon, is the main locus for work on the Mantis and Taranis programmes, which are enormously important for the future, as was righty said by my hon. Friend the Member for South Ribble. They are beginning to employ in a big way, including many of the aerodynamicists and aeronautical engineers who up until now have been employed by the manned combat aircraft, particularly the Typhoon and the JSF F-35 programmes.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id ... oon#g221.1
October 2011: On E-Scan radar, the point is that the Ministry of Defence and the industry are working on an assessment programme. Electronically scanned radar is on-the-edge technology. If we get this right, it will be Europe’s first and only second generation scanned radar. Therefore, we need to think about how it works. The reason why we are not committing on long-term development is that we need to see whether the assessment works in the first place. In my book, that is a sensible pattern to follow. Clearly, we would not have taken that first step had we not seen the opportunity. That is an important leap in capability for the Typhoon, and it could well mean that although there will be tighter pressure on the domestic Typhoon programme, there will be opportunities for better exports in the long term.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/? ... oon#g582.1
Typhoon aircraft are subject to scheduled maintenance:
- after 400 flying hours Primary maintenance;
- 800 flying hours Minor maintenance;
- 1,200 flying hours Primary Plus maintenance;
- and 1,600 flying hours Major maintenance.
The following table shows the number of aircraft that have completed each maintenance period under the Typhoon availability service contract to 24 January 2013:
Primary Minor Primary (Plus) Major Total
Tranche1 9 43 36 2 90
Tranche2 15 1 0 0 16
Total 24 44 36 2 106
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The current value of each aircraft fleet is shown in the following table. The values quoted reflect the net book value (NBV) of the fleet, which is calculated by adding the cost of any major upgrades to the original capital cost of each asset and deducting depreciation to reflect the decrease in value of an asset over time. The values quoted bear no relation to the replacement costs of the assets and capabilities, nor can they be used to calculate an accurate cost per aircraft.
Aircraft Total NBV (£ million)
Typhoon 6,347
Tornado 804
The number of aircraft used to calculate the current net book value (NBV) of each fleet is shown in the following table.
Aircraft Number
Typhoon 104
Tornado 112
These numbers only reflect aircraft currently on the asset register; they do not include assets in the course of construction or future deliveries. It should also be noted that the number of aircraft and the total NBV figure cannot be used in conjunction to calculate an accurate NBV per aircraft.
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Home NOTICIAS España El Ejército del Aire prueba la precisión en la defensa aérea de España en “Dardo 2013”, el más importante ejercicio anual: Lanzamiento de más de 40 misiles aire-aire IRIS-T y Sidewinder desde Eurofighter y EF-18
El Ejército del Aire prueba la precisión en la defensa aérea de España en “Dardo 2013”, el más importante ejercicio anual: Lanzamiento de más de 40 misiles aire-aire IRIS-T y Sidewinder desde Eurofighter y EF-18
Miércoles 20 de Noviembre de 2013 10:42
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(defensa.com) Del 10 al 15 de noviembre, unidades aéreas de combate y de apoyo al combate del Ejército del Aire llevaron a cabo en aguas del Golfo de Cádiz el ejercicio Dardo 2013, consistente en tiro real aire-aire (misil y cañón) y lanzamiento de misiles superficie-aire. Este ejercicio de carácter anual, el único en el que se utiliza armamento real, está planeado y dirigido por el Mando Aéreo de Combate (MACOM), tiene como objetivo incrementar el adiestramiento de las tripulaciones y del personal especialista de las unidades aéreas implicadas en el manejo, preparación y empleo operativo de armamento real, como el misil IRIS-T o el Aspide, sobre blancos aéreos teledirigidos. El ejercicio Dardo es considerado uno de los más importantes del Ejército del Aire, tanto por el número de personal y medios implicados, como por la importancia del apoyo logístico necesario para llevarlo a cabo.
Para el desarrollo del ejercicio se constituyó una Agrupación Aérea Táctica en la Base Aérea de Morón y en el polígono de tiro de Médano del Loro (Huelva) con la participación de medios aéreos y personal de apoyo del Ala 11 (Morón), Ala 12 (Torrejón), Ala 14 (Albacete), Ala 15 (Zaragoza) y Ala 46 (Gando), el Centro Logístico de Armamento y Experimentación (CLAEX) y los Escuadrones de Apoyo al Despliegue Aéreo (EADA de Zaragoza y SEADA de Morón). Para constituir esta agrupación se han movilizado más 30 aviones de combate y 225 personas, entre tripulaciones y personal especialista y se ha contado con el apoyo de medios de la Armada y Guardia Civil, que han ayudado a despejar el tráfico marítimo en las zonas reservadas para el ejercicio.
Las operaciones se han dirigido desde el Centro de Operaciones Aéreas del MACOM, de la Base Aérea de Torrejón, empleando la estructura permanente de mando y control del Ejército del Aire. Esta estructura permite integrar toda la información en tiempo real y transmitir las órdenes oportunas hasta el Centro de Operaciones de Base de Morón y al de la defensa antiaérea establecido en el polígono de Médano del Loro, donde estaban desplegados los medios antiaéreos del EADA.
Durante el ejercicio, en el que se han realizado más de 40 salidas diarias, sumando un total de más de 150 horas de vuelo, se han simulando, utilizando blancos aéreos teledirigidos, diferentes escenarios y niveles de amenaza aérea que han sido combatidos, en función de la situación táctica, con misiles y/o los cañones aire-aire de 20 o 27 milímetros. En total se han lanzado desde aviones C.16 (Eurofighter) y C.15 (EF-18), más de 40 misiles aire-aire de guiado infra-rojo de nueva generación, tipo IRIS-T y Sidewinder, mientras que desde tierra se han lanzado misiles Aspide.
Los misiles supersónicos aire-aire de corto alcance y guiado infrarrojo están dotados de un detector óptico o un láser con una cabeza de guiado, que permite al misil seguir la fuente de térmica que desprende el avión enemigo. Este tipo de sensores permite al piloto eludir la zona de combate tras el lanzamiento del misil, mientras éste continúa su preciso recorrido hacia el blanco, por lo que se denomina misil tipo "dispara y olvida" (fire and forget).
En lo referente al uso del cañón, éste continúa siendo un arma totalmente válida para el combate aire-aire, sobre todo a muy corta distancia, en el que las rápidas maniobras y las altas velocidades hacen ineficaces los misiles de corto alcance. Este tipo de armas, de 27 y 20 milímetros utilizan cadencias de disparo que pueden alcanzar varios miles de disparos por minuto.
Fuente y Fotografía: Ejército del Aire español
Eurofighter Aims for AESA Radar Contract by Mid-2014
Nov. 20, 2013
http://www.defensenews.com/article/2013 ... y=nav|head
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