Well i don’t know how to agree on this debate. Super Hornets called a slow speed air superiority plane/dogfighter. It has the best slow speed characteristics for maneuverability in the air superiority arena. I doubt any fighter can go that slow to dogfight like a Super Hornet. Super Hornets challenging plane to fight in the air. But Eurofighter has to go fast to dogfight, meaning it’s afterburners are always on to dogfight the opponent and get the kill. I don’t know how well the Super Hornet can do in a high speed dogfight, meaning don’t know how can it dogfight using afterburners all the time. But in slow speed dogfighting, you’ll have to use afterburners to climb/get energy for the Super Hornet.

There’s a reason why Typhoon goes fast during a dogfight, it’s because that’s the best way to fight. Higher speed = better energy. Slower speed = less energy, (depending on power to weight ratio, thrust, aerodynamics, airframe design etc). And it doesn’t always necessarily need reheat to dogfight, for an aircraft that can go supersonic from brakes off in 30 seconds, it pretty much shows that there’s plenty of thrust available – meaning less time can be spent on reheat to save fuel.

EUROJET Turbo GmbH, the European consortium behind the EJ200 engine project, celebrates the delivery of its 1000th EJ200 production engine. The landmark engine was assembled at the facilities of Industria de Turbo Propulsores S.A. (ITP) in Madrid, Spain and delivered to the Spanish Air Force on the 23rd May, 2013 to power the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet.

http://www.eurofighter.com/media/news0/news-detail/article/info-eurojet-celebrates-delivery-of-1000th-ej200-production-engine.html

1000 EJ200s and counting…

those lumps on his head were big enough to come through his helmet, it must have been rough up there!!!:D:highly_amused:;)

Indeed! Hehe!

It would seem as though the Paveway IV drops were done via HEA + Litening, or via Litening from another source. Some followers on Twitter took some pictures of him taking off in IPA6 with him wearing HEA and the aircraft ‘without’ Litening. He’s just announced that he has received a patch from Raytheon for dropping Paveway IVs so things are going well, as he pointed out in a “tweet” earlier.

maybe growler may not want to hear this but I agree on its kitematic performance lacks, range, speed. where’s the part you don’t agree on?

The bold part I quoted in my last post! Slow speed = Kinetic performance! I’ve said this twice already! Slow speed maneuverability (handling) is okay if you’re lining up to land on a carrier in the middle of the Pacific in rough weather – but isn’t that useful when you’re up against another air superiority fighter at much higher speeds. If you’re in a Super Hornet and your opponent is a supersonic fighter capable of maneuvering at, and beyond supersonic speeds, you’re going to be in a world of hurt! Typhoons simulate launching BVR shots at Mach 1.6 at 40,000+ ft, the Super Hornet ain’t going to be launching anything like that. And I must stress that I’m not mentioning Typhoon for the sake of it or to derail the topic. It’s the way it is, Super Hornet lacks that kind of kinetic performance.

The Super Hornet has lots of range, not disputing that.

the navy might require the meteor for the lost AIM-54 capability. i never said its receiving meteor.

Might, but the chances are slim.

To additionally add to Scorpion82’s comments regarding Radar-1 and Radar-2.

Radar-1 should offer equivalent performance to Captor-M but with the traditional benefits such as multi-mode flexibility and reliability of an AESA and enhanced ECCM. Radar-2 will offer increased detention and tracking ranges compared to Captor-M and Captor-E Radar-1.

The early ones had two nose guns, F3 had none, the F2A hand both nose and ventral guns and the F6 had two ventral guns.
All had various ventral packages, one being 44 two inch rockets.

The F2A just had the nose Guns. The Ventral section was used for extra fuel, also the F2A had the best endurance out of all the Lightning Marks. Many F2A pilots recorded in their log books that generally flew over 90 minutes un-refuelled on practice Battle Flight scramble sorties even with a reheat climb to height.