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Double First for French and British Fast Jet Pilots
Two pilots, one from the RAF and one from the French Air Force, have achieved a ‘double first,’ by qualifying to fly each other’s current fast jet aircraft.
http://www.xairforces.net/newsd.asp?new ... Ti1Cle2DcZ
08/03/2013
TIM ROBINSON reports from BAE Systems in Warton.
Bob Smith, Engineering Director, Combat Air, at BAE Systems
So how long will the Typhoon be in service? Bob Smith says the aircraft has “probably another 30-40 years” of service life ahead of it. Indeed, given the current trend of military aircraft, that may be a conservative estimate. So, what might any hypothetical ‘Super Typhoon’ of 2045 look like?
First, for the UK customer it will have to be interoperable with the F-35 to allow both platforms to be able to complement each other, providing the RAF with a flexible and dynamic air control capability. [Eso implicaría muy posiblemente integrarle el nuevo enlace de datos MADL y alguno de esos furtivos IFDL, TTNT.]
The future Typhoon is also likely to incorporate a new glass cockpit as part of a mid-life update, leveraging consumer technology such as iPad-style large displays. That said, its colour coded MIDS already sets a very high standard in MMI (man machine interface). Says Smith: “As time goes on we will probably have to look at updating the cockpit and computing, adding in more and more automation.” He added: “If you have a lifespan of 30-40 years there will come a time when you will have to do a cockpit upgrade. BAE Systems has that part of the project and we have already started to look at what sort of technology might be applicable to doing that task”
More futuristically, Smith also talks of the Typhoon of 2045 being a ‘hybrid’ air platform – incorporating new levels of autonomy to help the pilot. Smith raises this intriguing idea: “I don’t think we’ve come to the end of manned aircraft yet, but I wonder about a ‘hybrid’ air platform. Something like Typhoon, where you have immense capability on it but, if the pilot can’t manage all that, could you consider making some of that capability autonomous?” He goes on: “You would have a man-in-the-loop but a lot of the functionality would work on its own – so a hybrid manned vehicle with autonomous capability is an interesting byproduct of unmanned vehicles and manned vehicles.” Smith notes that the Typhoon’s advanced MMI (along with ‘carefree handling’), which allow the pilot to concentrate on the mission, mean it is “not a far stretch of the imagination” to take this even further.
Essentially this could mean that BAE’s work on autonomy (which, though Taranis is the most recent example, actually dates back to the Corax/Raven in the early 2000s) may at some point turn a single-seat Typhoon into a ‘virtual twin-seater’ with the second ‘AI’ crewmember providing enhanced situational awareness, suggesting courses of action, or perhaps even flying the aircraft back to base should the pilot become incapacitated. Although this sounds like science fiction, some of BAE’s work on autonomy for the civil ASTRAEA UAS project is already laying the groundwork for this advanced ‘computer co-pilot’.
What is noteworthy from this vision, is that it shows that BAE’s work on UAS, and autonomy in general, is now feeding into concepts for a Typhoon that by the middle of this century could still be extremely lethal. Aided by a smart AI as a ‘virtual WISO’, the potential ‘Super Typhoon’ pilot of 2045, with its AESA radar, thrust vectoring, extra range thanks to CFT will be an extremely capable multi-role platform. As the F-15E Strike Eagle demonstrates, converting an air superiority fighter to a multirole strike produces a phenomenal platform. Says Bob Smith: “If you really want to build a multirole combat aircraft then build an extremely capable fighter first.”
Furthermore, it is not too far-fetched to also speculate that the Super Typhoon of 2045 might include LO tweaks such as stealth pods (such as proposed for the International F/A-18E/F Super Hornet) or other measures to reduce its RCS.
Finally, the ‘Super Typhoon’ of 2045 might also become a UAV or UCAV mission commander. Explains Smith: “By that time there will be a lot more unmanned vehicles flying around and it would be an interesting concept, because of the interoperability capability, to operate a few UAVs from a Typhoon cockpit.” Potentially, the Typhoon pilot could then command an AI wingman, perhaps to clear air defences out of the way. “You could see yourself being in a situation where not only have you got onboard capability on your own aircraft but you are controlling airborne capability too.” Again while this might seem like science fiction, the UK has already undertaken ‘UAV wingman’ trials using a Tornado and BAC-1-11 (as a surrogate UAV). Indeed, one could also imagine that the Eurofighter’s direct voice input (DVI) system (where the pilot can already set radio frequencies, check fuel and even designate targets) could even be used to command robot UCAV wingman.
Hang onto your hats.
http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace- ... come/7851/
MAC2 escribió:De la noticia de Atenea, http://www.ateneadigital.es/RevistaAten ... 33_ESP.asp, sobre el viaje de "ventas" de Morenés y los Tifón, ya sabemos (pensamos) que Perú lo tiene difícil si no imposíble, pero ¿y Brasil?, se acaba de anunciar el enésimo retraso del FX, la baja de los M-2000 el año que viene, que como todos sabemos se dedican a defensa aérea de la capital, misión ideal para los T1, junto a una pequeña compra de AIM-120 sería una solución a ambas situaciones, tampoco sería a futuro un problema para la FAB, ya que podrían convivir los Tifón y los FX.
Para pensarlo....
pero ¿y Brasil?, se acaba de anunciar el enésimo retraso del FX, la baja de los M-2000 el año que viene, que como todos sabemos se dedican a defensa aérea de la capital, misión ideal para los T1, junto a una pequeña compra de AIM-120 sería una solución a ambas situaciones, tampoco sería a futuro un problema para la FAB, ya que podrían convivir los Tifón y los FX.
España espera vender a Chile doce Eurofighter para sustituir la frustrada venta de los A400M
17/11/2010
http://www.infodefensa.com/?noticia=esp ... -los-a400m
Orel escribió:Sin embargo el que no has citado, Chile, es otro cantar. Me extrañaría mucho, pero no tanto como Brasil, porque ha habido interés demostrado, con varias visitas oficiales enfocadas al Tifón español. De hecho, a finales de 2010 había posibilidades serias de venta de una docena de Typhoon a Chile:España espera vender a Chile doce Eurofighter para sustituir la frustrada venta de los A400M
17/11/2010
http://www.infodefensa.com/?noticia=esp ... -los-a400m
Orel escribió:Dudo muchísimo que se planteasen mezclar dos cazas diferentes (aparte de que no tenga sentido). Bastante tienen ya con elegir y comprar unos pocos de un solo modelo.
Precisamente por eso, por que ya se hablado mucho y nada, pero lo de Brasil es hasta lógico, y que fuera eliminado del FX-2, bueno, la oferta por 900 millones los hace muy apetecible, además la FAB viendo el percal, mejor pájaro en mano ...
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Bueno, la FAB ahora mismo tiene 3 modelos de cazas, F-5, AMX y M-2000, estos últimos en una mision muy especializada, como ya sabemos.
La Fuerza Aérea Brasileña completa la modernización de 46 de sus cazas F-5
08 de marzo de 2013
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ya suscribió un nuevo contrato con Embraer para modernizar un segundo lote de aviones F-5 compuesto por 11 unidades y que comenzará a recibir este año.
http://noticias.terra.com.ar/internacio ... aRCRD.html
RAF puts Typhoon upgrade through paces during Red Flag
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The UK Royal Air Force is using a new upgrade to its Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft during exercise Red Flag 13-3 in the USA, with the enhancement to also soon be embodied with all its early production examples of the type [Tranche 1].
BAE Systems, which developed the enhancements package, says the activity "provides capability upgrades to a wide range of Typhoon avionic systems, covering the displays and controls, attack and identification, defensive aids and communication subsystems". The programme also involves Germany's national support centre for the Eurofighter.
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"The Drop 2 upgrade has been successfully evaluated and will now be embodied onto the [RAF's] wider Tranche 1 fleet,"...
Other Eurofighter operators are also looking to incorporate the improvements brought with the latest modification. "The participating nations within the Drop programme have taken a keen interest in what the Royal Air Force has achieved with this modification, and are now looking to embody the Drop 2 product onto their Tranche 1 aircraft," it says.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ag-383289/
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