Simulated A/A kills from other exercises?

What “other” exercises? That’s actually a Luftwaffe Eurofighter from JG 74, the shot was taken at Albacete Spain in the current TLP course.;) The aircraft left Neuburg without stars thus you can expect that this Typhoon scored some 12 simulated kills during the TLP at the time that photograph was made. I think I already posted this picture in the Typhoon thread where it belongs too, as this is the Libyan thread.;)

I like the part about the “reco ng targeting pod”.:dev2:

@TMor,
is there a larger version of that image available somewhere? 🙂

Such a third party targeting capability isn’t that special these days, you can expect most if not all MIDS equipped fighters to offer such a capability, albeit it has only been reported for the Rafale and Typhoon thus far, but I may have missed related announcements for other types like the F-15, F-16 or F/A-18 all of which use MIDS or the similar FDL.

Such an AMRAAM firing using third party targeting data has been conducted by Eurofighter in 2009.
http://www.eurofighter.com/media/news0/news-detail/article/unique-amraam-firing-with-eurofighter-typhoon.html

“…The objective of the testing was to fire the AMRAAM missile from a Eurofighter Typhoon whilst its radar was in passive mode and thus “invisible” for Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Systems. The necessary target data for the missile was acquired by the radar of a second Eurofighter Typhoon and transmitted using the Multi Functional Information Distribution System (MIDS). Both aircraft were separated by quite a distance in range…”

There was also a report of a Rafale doing this engaging a target flying behind the shooter, using a MICA IR, but I have no link readily available. IIRC that test was conducted somewhen in 2007.

@Mildave,
all that sounds nice, but the EM part of the Spectra is attributed to the passive detection of electromagnetic waves with the radar warning receivers. As stated before bear in mind that this could be possible in theory, but don’t bet your rear on it being a present capability of any aircraft. Thus far there isn’t even the slightest evidence that modern fighters use their EW receiving antennas as antennas for detecting and processing the emissions of the aircraft’s own radar.

It is stated that some kind of passive radar capability is provided by the Captor radar of the Typhoon, indicating that one aircraft can transmit and the other aircraft will receive the reflections and process it, but this doesn’t involve DASS except for cancelling out its own emissions in order to blank out false signals.