Interesante lo de las TVC.
Toca tocho, pero muy jugoso.
Nuevo número de la revista Eurofighter World 2-2012:
http://www.eurofighter.com/fileadmin/we ... 202012.pdfhttp://www.eurofighter.com/eurofighter- ... world.htmlHabla sobre los Tifones alemanes en Red Flag, sobre la P1E que es el mayor salto en capacidades desde que entró en servicio...
Voy editando para añadir lo interesante aquí:
Un detalle que me interesa es saber que la diferencia "mayor" entre la P1E de los T2 y el "paquete austero" instalado en los T1 Bloque 5 ingleses, es que este último no los hace realmente swingrole (que puedan desempeñar tareas AA y AS simultáneamente) si no que tenían que cambiar de un modo a otro. Además, con el pack "austero" el pod Litening III está integrado menos maduramente y tiene limitado el FoV, mientras que con la P1E alcanza su máximo campo de visión:
Furthermore, the RAF Tranche 1 aircraft received an “Austere’ Air-to-Ground clearance, providing the capability to use the UK Paveway II LGB with self designation using the Litening III designator pod.
P1E will give Tranche 2 Typhoons seamless air-to-ground integration compared to that incorporated under the austere air-to-ground package, and the aircraft will have a full simultaneous swing-role capability, rather than being able to switch to and from air-to-air and air-to-ground operations.
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and with a more mature and advanced LDP integration [la P1E que el "austere package"].
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the latter [la P1E] allows the pod even greater ‘look’ angles than the Austere Tranche 1 clearance
Sobre la P1E, muy interesante (y una vez más: el Eurofighter fue diseñado desde el principio como caza multirol. Detalle: el ASRAAM está integrado digitalmente desde la T1 Bloque 5 inglesa, mientras que el Iris-T no lo ha estado hasta ahora con la T2 con P1E): (EDITADO: otros artículos
aquí y
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P1E: THE BIGGEST BOOST TO THE AIRCRAFT’S OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY SINCE IT ENTERED SERVICE.
Such a claim might, on the face of it, seem extravagant, but the Phase 1 Enhancement (P1E) programme represents much more than an effort to advance the Tranche 2 Typhoon air-to ground capability. Though P1E does integrate the Litening III laser designator pod, Paveway IV and EGBU-16 dual-mode laser/GPS guided bombs, it also does much more than this.
Typhoon was designed from the beginning as a swing-role aircraft.
The Phase 1 Enhancements will be achieved via two separate software releases (SRP 10 with P1Ea and SRP 12 with P1Eb).
The first of the P1E software releases (P1Ea/SRP 10) provides an initial swing role/precision air-to-ground capability, using Paveway IV, EGBU16 and an air-to-surface gun (using the internal 27-mm cannon against ground targets), and with a more mature and advanced LDP integration.
Besides a deeper integration providing an improved Man Machine Interface, the latter allows the pod even greater ‘look’ angles than the Austere Tranche 1 clearance. In addition, SRP 10 will also give Typhoon an increased interoperability capability with coalition forces through an expanded communications fit, with new radios, MIDS enhancements, IFF Mode 5 and a new DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System).
The P1E upgrade gives enhanced capabilities in air-to-air missions, as well as in air-to-ground, with a full digital integration of the IRIS-T air-to-air missile (ASRAAM has had a digital integration since Tranche 1 Block 5), with high off-boresight targeting and firing via the HUD and the helmet. Coupled with the new Helmet Mounted Symbology System (HMSS), this capability will be a game changer in close air combat.
In all, P1E offers an array of additional functionality which includes a host of improvements to a range of systems including Rover, IFF, FLIR, Chaff/Flare and DASS, with improved accuracy of threat detection and enhanced countermeasures technologies, all that without exceeding the contracted budget and schedule boundaries.
P1E(b) will grow the new and improved precision air-to-ground capability to become a full swing-role capability, with the ability to undertake simultaneous air-to-air and air-to-ground engagements. It will add a full integration of GPS guided munitions - Paveway IV, GBU-10, GBU-16 and EGBU-16.
The integration will give both dynamic and pre-planned targeting options, and Typhoon will gain the ability to simultaneously attack multiple ground targets during a single attack run, allowing different bombs to attack their targets from multiple directions and angles. [Eso ya lo hicieron los "austere package" en Libia]
P1E(b) is new software based on a real time operating system and it adds new display formats for the air-to-ground role, significantly improving the already highly regarded Human Machine Interface (HMI), minimising the pilot’s workload in the most complex scenarios and facilitating simultaneous swing-role operations by allowing a pilot to continue a bomb run while at the same time fighting off air attacks.
Pilot workload will be further reduced by expanded and enhanced MIDS datalink functionality, with much greater data transmission capacity notably enhancing the weapon system effectivity in complex scenarios.
There will also be a two-stage delivery of DVI upgrades, with the first package of enhancements increasing the vocabulary to almost 90 commands, and allowing the pilot to request information to be displayed for any target or waypoint by voice command. It will also allow the pilot to manipulate the Laser Designator Pod and even to create a waypoint at a point of interest with just two commands.
Finally, P1E(b) will also include among other additional capabilities beyond the baseline contract, clearance for additional DASS improvements and the new Radar T2P SW [software, que citamos hace unas semanas en el artículo de las pruebas del 17 squadron] version for enhanced AA capability, also provided without exceeding the contract funding and schedule boundaries.
jon lake
El AESA:
En 2015 estarán el AESA y los StormShadow/Taurus, a los que seguirán los Dual Brimstone. En 2016 el Meteor:
The four nation future capability plan is also under evaluation, though it is likely that Storm Shadow/Taurus cruise missiles will be integrated by 2015, with the advanced Dual Mode Brimstone multi-role close air support weapon following.
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The Typhoon will wait until mid 2016 for clearance of the Meteor... and the planned AESA radar will be introduced in 2015.
Y posibilidades futuras, para las que la P1E es la base: bombas planeadoras de largo alcance, misiles antibuque, capacidad SEAD/DEAD (misiles antirradar, etc) y nuevos pods de reconocimiento y para ataque. Además, los CFT, las TVN/TVC, SatCom y MAW y LWR mejorados:
Moreover, studies and plans are already set for a much longer list of capabilities for the Typhoon, with a range of new weapons including Long Range Glide Bombs, Anti-Ship Missile, SEAD/DEAD capabilities and new Recce/Advanced Targeting pods. Then there are conformal fuel tanks, thrust vectoring engine nozzles, Satellite Communications, and improved Laser and Passive Missile Warning systems. The enhancements provided under P1E will build the foundations for all of these further improvements.
Y sobre el nuevo escuadrón español, de Albacete. Recuerda que el 142 esc. ha metido al Typhoon en el selecto club de los escuadrones Tiger (Tiger Meet):
SPANISH AIR FORCE OPERATES NEW TYPHOON SQUADRON
Eurofighter welcomed 142 Escuadrón of the Ejercito del Aire (Spanish Air Force) to the Typhoon family as the second Squadron operating the aircraft in Spain recently.
The new unit, situated in Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, operating under Ala 14 (14th Wing) replaced its Mirage F.1’s with the new Typhoon fighter. The other Eurofighter units operating with the Eurofighter in Spain are the Escuadrón 111 and 113, both belonging to Ala 11 and based in Moron, close to Seville.
The 142 Escuadrón will bring the Typhoon in the exclusive club of the “Tigers”, a gathering of units sharing a Tiger or big cat emblem - heraldry in Europe - established in 1961 and made famous thanks to NATO aircraft participating in the Tiger meet exercise where they were often brightly painted with tiger stripes.
El motor EJ200:
Y sobre el ejercicio Distant Frontier de los Tifones alemanes en EEUU, que duró 4 días, justo antes de Red Flag, donde se enfrentaron contra Raptors, lo nuevo es que estuvieron también probando el DASS a tope:
Prior to the start of Red Flag, four Eurofighter Typhoons took part in exercise ‘Distant Frontier’ which was an opportunity for the American and German pilots to get to know each other and fly together before the start of Red Flag. The Typhoons flew 86 of the 88 planned sorties, mainly offensive counter-air (OCA). Major Marco Gumbrecht, Director of weapons and tactics with JG 74, said “We were testing the electronic warfare and DASS capabilities over the ranges”.
The Eurofighter Typhoons took part in eight 1v1 basic flight manoeuvre (BFM) sorties with the USAF’s F-22A Raptors. When asked how he felt flying with the American jets, Unit commander Colonel Andreas Pfeiffer, said: ‘Its unique capabilities are overwhelming from our first impressions in terms of modern air combat, but once you get to the merge, which is only a very small spectrum of air combat, in that area the Typhoon doesn’t have to fear the F-22’.
El MAW versión P1E empezó a probarse en el IPA7 en mayo de 2009:
the Cassidian Germany-owned IPA7... and which also flew trials with the P1E standard Missile Approach Warner from May 2009.
Y primera cita que veo "oficial" del diámetro aproximado de antena radar del Eurofighter. Hasta ahora decía unos 70 cm, pues más bien son 75 cm:
was requiring a sizeable fuselage nose section to accommodate a radar antenna of about 75cm diametre.
Y confirma que el FoV (ángulo de visión) del AESA es de +/-100º, más que de +/-90º (es decir, 200º en total):
when the nosecone houses a big new AESA radar antenna and its re-positioning mechanism to allow a formidable scan angle of 200 degrees.
Curiosa imagen con el misil antibuque RBS-15... y aunque no lo cita el pie de foto, es el DA5 con los LERX, en color amarillo (las extensiones de raíz del ala hacia la toma de aire). Ese prototipo se dió de baja el 30 de octubre de 2007, tras completar precisamente los ensayos de LEX. El avión fue luego entregado a la Luftwaffe donde lo usan para entrenamiento en ponerle cargas externas con el TSLw 3 en Fassberg:
Y foto de maqueta con RBS-15, en la versión naval propuesta a la India:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg818/sc ... es=landingE imágenes digitales con RBS-15 de la versión naval propuesta a India:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dY8O2tinLyU/T ... n%2BIN.JPGhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2fFFZY0mcU/T ... hoon+2.jpgSobre los Tifones ingleses en el ejercicio Frisian Flag 2012. Para que veamos la multirolidad de los "austere package" ingleses:
DICKY PATOUNAS, WING COMMANDER, INTERVIEW
EF: How did your Typhoons perform in the Frisian Flag exercise?
DP: Our Typhoons, ground crew and pilots all performed very well on Exercise Frisian Flag.
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We were normally put out front to clear up any enemy forces and would then protect the package until all had left before we closed the door safely behind the last aircraft. When we were swing role we would take the largest number of bombs the furthest distance, service our target, often service another target from a formation that needed our extra bombs and then swing into an air-to-air role to protect the package because we were still carrying a full air-to-air load out.
Y verdades como puños, no menos ciertas porque provengan de la revista de Eurofighter:
- Que la gente que considera que el Typhoon no es multirol porque aún no lance misiles de crucero (porque no tenga una gran panoplia AS) no tiene ni idea de lo que es el diseño y las capacidades de un avión, ni de lo que es la diferencia de calendario a la hora de pedir liberación de capacidades. Y más importante es que tu caza tenga mejor capacidad de crecimiento ahora y menos limitaciones, que el que tenga ya cierta arma más.
- Y otra otra vez más: el Typhoon fue diseñado como multirol desde el principio, requerido así por RU y España (que luego lo ha requerido también Alemania).
- Y, como dije hace un tiempo, que mientras que las misiones aire-aire seguirán llevándose a cabo con aeronaves tripuladas aún por mucho tiempo, las tareas AS irán quedando relegadas cada vez más a los UAV, por lo que un caza excelente en AA tiene mejor perspectiva a futuro. Y F-22 y Tifón son más AA, mientras que F-35 y Rafale están más orientados a AS:
There has been some misunderstanding concerning Typhoon’s inherent capabilities and potential for evolution, which may be caused by a weak appreciation of the design approach used and its impact on the end product. The discussion above hopefully will have shed some light on an arcane subject and cleared some prejudgments.
Some people admit that Typhoon is indeed a superb air superiority fighter, second only to the mythical F-22, but incapable of any other roles beside air-to-air. They compare it with the self-styled omnirole Rafale and conclude that Typhoon is a lesser fighter because at present it cannot fire an anti-ship or a cruise missile. Such a judgment, based exclusively on a certain point in time, is flawed as it measures only the timing of introduction of given capability and is not based on the inherent potential of a design.
Nobody doubts the capability of the Eurofighter consortium of integrating a cruise missile or a recce pod on Typhoon... The true discriminator instead is looking at what will not be achieved in a given design, at any time, because of its in-built limitations. For example Rafale will never be able to have a big AESA radar antenna because of its small frontal section. And even more impossible to have it mounted on a swivel mechanism, so as to increase its scan volume and consequently the fighter combat effectiveness. The propulsion shortcomings is another well recognised critical area where changes are extremely expensive and so far have proven fruitless.
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the Typhoon joint operational requirement of the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain Air Forces was not for a dedicated air superiority platform but for a multirole fighter, as the UK and Spain also needed to replace some strike assets in their inventory.
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When looking ahead at the emerging technologies affecting the conduct of future air warfare, two megatrends appear on the horizon:
1) The air superiority mission will remain the preserve of the manned fighter for the foreseeable future because of the extremely dynamic and interactive nature of modern air combat.
2) The strike missions will gradually move to ever more capable unmanned platforms.
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Looking at other contemporary designs one can say that the F-22 followed a design philosophy (excluding the stealth considerations) similar to Typhoon [se refiere a diseño más AA, de prestaciones, capacidad sensorial... ], whereas Rafale represents a multirole fighter with a strike focus. For what regards the JSF multirole capabilities, it must be noted that its design center of gravity is admittedly in the strike area.
http://www.eurofighter.com/fileadmin/we ... 202012.pdfhttp://www.eurofighter.com/eurofighter- ... world.html Otra noticia de Farnborough: los saudíes están avanzando muy rápido en el desarrollo de capacidades AS de sus Tifones. Sus Tranche 2 serán los primeros de todos en tener todas las capacidades AS autónomas. Dicen que es un muy buen avión, que ya realizan tareas QRA y ya han comenzado el entrenamiento AS y que esperan ansiosos la P1E para darle capacidad plena AS:
Farnborough 2012: Saudi Typhoon plans gain momentum
By Tim Ripley
7/10/2012
Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 2 aircraft are to field the capability to self-designation precision-guided bombs this year.
The air force will become the first to field fully autonomous air-to-ground capabilities on the Tranche 2 variants.According to Major Shareef, of the RSAF's 3 Squadron, the service is moving fast to exploit all the potential of the Typhoon, which he described as a "very good aircraft".
Major Shareef told a briefing at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire that the RSAF had already practised day and night air-to-air refuelling in the Typhoon. "We have done quick-reaction alert for the first time and have already started air-to-ground training. We are waiting for the Phase One Enhancement (P1E) to provide the full air-to-ground role."
His squadron, based at King Fahd Airbase at Al Taif in southwestern Saudi Arabia, is responsible for training and conversion of pilots using the 24 Typhoon so far delivered. "We have 20 pilots converted and seven in training in Taif about to finish [their conversion course]," he said.
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Y no me puedo explicar cómo, con la de noticias de gran relevancia que está habiendo sobre el Typhoon, la única noticia reciente en el portal web de Eurofighter es que han creado una nueva app para tablets con una guía del avión
Vale, sí, que en la revista ponen todo lo último... pero poca gente se leerá eso comparado con echar un vistazo a las noticias del portal:
"Eurofighter Typhoon App launched (11 July 2012)
Eurofighter has just released a brand new application for the iPad and Android tablets, offering fans of Eurofighter Typhoon a comprehensive, interactive guide to the aircraft."
http://www.eurofighter.com/media/news0/ ... nched.htmlUn saludo