Could it be a pod such as LITENING or LANTIRN, but I was wondering the same thing myself.. interesting read that…

IIRC the Aim 9L were taken from UK NATO stocks the US supplied the UK with rounds to replenish that UK NATO stock..

At least I think thats what happened!!!
Merry Christmas..

How many American weapons on the EF2000 ?

Well theres the Sidewinder on some countries models
AMRAAM. ( to be replaced by Meteor.)
bomb guidance kits.

Others could include the Brimstone as a derivative of the Hellfire, but as derivatives go its really only a couple of bolts they have in common.

Thats about it, and theres a reason why there are few, and those which are on there then alternatives exist….

The reason – In the unlikely event of the US using its leverage to knobble the Typhoon in foreign fighter competitions.. ( I know they would never stoop so low as to deny exports to a third party for this reason ;-))

Cheers

The captor mechanical radar has an interesting function:-

Even though CAPTOR features a mechanically steered array, BAE Systems have indicated that the low inertia non-counterbalanced antenna coupled with four high torque, high precision samarium-cobalt drive motors allows extremely high scanning speeds. As a consequence of this the radar can interleave different operations such as air and ground mapping. This is quite an achievement for a non-phased array system.

Now why would they need such a function for an aircraft that isn’t capable of doing two things at once?.
Now the Rafale may be able to do three things at once!, but I guess the workload will require the second crew member.

Personal opinion – I would regard “Swing role” and Omni role” as virtually the same, but I’d love to know the real definition.

Has anyone actually asked Dassault what differentiates ‘omni’ from ‘swing’ in their minds?, the only thing a quick search found was this

The Rafale is a highly agile French twin-engined delta-wing multi-role fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Dassault use ‘Omni Role’ as a marketing term in an effort to differentiate the aircraft from other ‘multi-role’ fighters which have primary and secondary roles. Dassault also use the term to indicate the ability to switch from one role to another during a single sortie – a ‘Swing Role’ capability first seen in the F/A-18 hornet.

but can’t find anything on dassaults site, perhaps theres something in IIRC ‘fox three’
Regards”

http://www.eurofighter.com/Typhoon/Airframe/

Click on “Masses”. It gives an MTOW of 23,500 kg and an empty weight of 11,000 kg.

ISTR 11,150kg for the single seater, The 11,150kg figure is quoted here.

http://www.eurofighter.com/Documents/General/2002.1.PublicFolder.pdf

I also remember a Eurofighter news item where it weighed in at 11,150kg as a production aircraft!!

The twin seater is IIRC ~11,700kg

cheers

Jacko,

Firstly I repeat the $50m not because it is the lowest available because it is the ONLY official forecast for the JSF flyaway price. That is the price forecast being shared with everyone in the program.

Secondly, I submitted a FOI request about the Typhoon £64.8 m unit price asking why the increase from 2004 to 2005. Here is the answer from the MoD:

“The Unit Production Cost (UPC) for Typhoon has increased due to a change in the basis of calculation. The UPC quoted in the Major Projects Report 2005 (MPR05) is based on the production costs only for 144 Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 aircraft that are currently on contract and this change was introduced to better reflect the cost of aircraft being delivered to the RAF. Previous MPR UPCs have been calculated on 232 aircraft which is the full Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) commitment.”

So no new RAB that wasn’t there before and no unexpected charges or any other Jacko baloney, they just re-calculated the number for the first 2 tranches. Now deal with it.

So is the JSF price the avarage for the full number of aircraft of circa 2600????, and its not the flyaway price for the first 1300 ish?, so shouldn’t you compare that with the Typhoons full 638+ for all partners (remember the UK version is the more expensive as it has additional equipment fit to the other partners).

I know the flyaway price thing is frightfully difficult… 😮

Cheers

What is the blacked out square bit Hiding? G being pulled?? what?