That was being said in Singapour. Most interestingly is the fact that the aircraft being used was a block 1 twin seat.

Yes, concerning Singapore, even Eurofighter claims in an official publication that they were rated highest in the technical arena.

Defense News is reporting that the Eurofighter Typhoons Tranche 1 Block 5s will have Brimstone in addition to EPII, LDP, 27mm and air to air weapons, which would be great.

Link.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2955809&C=europe

Well I have had a look at the reports and there is a lot of talk about saving ship building in Scotland and basing the carriers in Scotland but nothing about England.

Personally I think the Labour party has been hell bent on destroying any shipping infrastructure in England in favour of Scotland. Considering 83% of the population doesn’t live in Scotland that does come accross as a bit unfair.

They certainly have been gunning for Devenport and Portsmouth two vital but English yard facilities.

I think that is a slightly unfair depiction, the Astutes and the SSBN(R)s will be built in Barrow-in-Furness and two of those is worth about 1 CVF. The CVFs will be partly built in Portsmouth and if this is a national build strategy probably also in Barrow-in-Furness. The Type 45s are partly built in Portsmouth. And of course much of the equipment (MT30s for example) will come from “southern UK”. 🙂 But really I dislike this “breakdown” of percentage terms of defence projects , I certainly don’t want a Canadian situation.

The Times is reporting it might happen next week. I’m optimistic. 🙂 And really it doesn’t matter if it has been ten years because if there are two massive 70000 tonnes CVFs in the Royal Navy it will be in a different league to now.

Great! How many (production and test vehicles) are supposed to be built? And how many of these at Yeovil? Is it 27 in total and 7 of those in Yeovil?

A very impressive list.

United Kingdom

Taranis – first flight planned 2010
Raven – flown
Corax – flown
Kestrel – flown
Herti-1A -flown
Herti-1D – flown
Watchkeeper (with Israel’s Elbit) – design frozen, soon to be in production
Phoenix – flown and in service (soon to be replaced)
Zephyr – flown

Germany

Barracuda (input from Spain and Switzerland) – 3000kg ISTAR UAV demonstrator flown
Sharc 2 – rotary UAV flown
Scorpio – rotary UAV flown
Orkar 1200 – rotary UAV
Carolo – Mini UAV
KZO
Lunar
Aladin

France

Sperwer – flown, quite a few produced
Sperwer B – in development
Petit Duc – flown
Moyen Duc – flown
Eagle 1 (with Israel’s IAI) – flown
Tracker – flown
Crecerelle – flown, being replaced now

Sweden

Sharc -flown
Filur – flown
Skeldar – rotary UAV flown, ready for production

Italy

Sky-X – flown
Sky-Y – flown
Molynx – planned
Falco – flown
Nibbio

Austria

Camcopter – rotary UAV flown and in production and service
S-100 – rotary UAV flown and in production and service

Belgium (replaced)

Epervier

Cross European

Advanced UAV (Germany as lead partner with France and Spain)
New European MALE UAV (Italy as lead partner, France and Sweden)
Neuron (France as lead, Italy, Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Spain) – first flight planned 2011
CL289 – flown and in service (Collaboration between Germany, France and Canada)
Asio – VTOL UAV (UK and Italy)
Otus – mini UAV (UK and Italy)
Strix – Flying wing UAV (UK and Italy)
Yet unnamed – VTOL (UK and Italy)

The last four are Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems in collaboration with some Italian companies (UTRI and Alpi Aviation).

Here is a short and probably incomplete overview of recent European UAVs and UCAVs.

United Kingdom

Taranis – first flight planned 2010
Raven – flown
Corax – flown
Kestrel – flown
Herti-1A -flown
Herti-1D – flown
Watchkeeper (with Israel’s Elbit) – design frozen, soon to be in production
Zephyr – flown

Germany

Barracuda (input from Spain and Switzerland) – flown

France

Sperwer – flown, quite a few produced
Sperwer B – in development
Petit Duc – flown
Moyen Duc – flown
Eagle 1 (with Israel’s IAI) – flown

Sweden

Sharc -flown
Filur – flown

Italy

Sky-X – flown
Sky-Y – flown
Molynx – planned
Falco – flown

Cross European

Advanced UAV (Germany as lead partner with France and Spain)
New European MALE UAV (Italy as lead partner, France and Sweden)
Neuron (France as lead, Italy, Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Spain) – first flight planned 2011

An own comic. :rolleyes: Eurofighter should buy a guest appearance in the Simpsons. Bart could destroy the nuclear power plant, that Mr. Burns sold to the Iranians, using missiles from a Eurofighter 🙂