Lukos stop talking nonsense! The only not weapon related changes as part of P3E are avionics reliability improvements.
Captor-E is funded under a separate contract, Striker II at best a BC and don’t expect too much from the number of weapons the aircraft will be cleared to carry!

Furthermore changing/improving the integration of weapons does not necessarily entail changes to the weapons itself.

Sorry Scorpion, that was what I seemed to make of this.

http://www.eurofighter.com/news-and-events/2015/02/eurofighter-typhoon-powers-forward-with-new-enhancement-contract

No. It says that
a) Captor-E is not in service yet
b) the cyberware RF capabilities shall be added (one day)
Nothing of this means these capabilities are already included with today’s Captor-E.

Err no, it clearly says that Captor-E will give those capabilities when it is introduced to service.

do you mean the pretended, imaginative, shot, was performed at 20 Nm ?

Correction, a pretend, imaginative shot may have been taken at 20nm, based on a fisherman’s… sorry pilot’s tale.

“ASRAAM performs LOAL capability by predicting where the target could be as its seeker enters search mode after launch.”

This article is actually trying to present the main drawback of the ASRAAM as an advantage.
The ASRAAM is indeed LOAL, but it is not fitted with datalink or any kind of aircraft-missile link. MICA with IR seeker is both.

That means ASRAAM can only be fired at stable trajectory and constant speed targets. Useless on a maneuvering fighter if it must be a LOAL shot.

Means nothing of the sort, it’s the versatility of the seeker that allows LOAL without a datalink (hence ‘search mode’:D), hence why they didn’t add it, since the addition would have been fairly simple, as it was added to CAMM, which uses an ARH seeker, hence it needs a datalink. Basically it met the required performance without a datalink. The IRIS-T doesn’t use a datalink either and the seeker range is said to match the kinematic range – 25km.
http://www.diehl.com/fileadmin/diehl-defence/user_upload/flyer/IRIS-T_e_Eurofighter.pdf

If you think about it, you’ve got a staring array with 90deg OBS capability, that doesn’t leave much sky to hide in and when you have a lot of targets, a true fire and forget weapon may be more useful. In BVR you could make an argument for a datalink but then clouds make IIR seekers non-ideal for BVR engagement. That said, the seeker range itself extends well into the BVR.

So how come it still used cruise missiles then? The point is that the choice of weapons had nothing to do with EW capabilities. Don’t blame me for bringing up the Rafale in another thread.

Maybe, maybe not. There’s no reason why 6 couldn’t be used with CFTs, although 12 missiles is probably more than enough.

It’s nothing knew, it’s been around since the turn of the century and has nothing to do with Spectra. It’s simply the virtue of HOBS IIR sensors and LOAL.

Number of T/R modules is generally proportional to size. Yeah it can use Meteor, but will lack the flexibility of a two-way datalink, giving feedback when the missile seeker is locked and a swash-plate mounted radar, allowing evasive manoeuvres after Meteor has been fired. Spectra is yet to demonstrate any true BVR capability. In the 7.8nm engagement the missile had an IR seeker, which is very wide-angle relative to a radar beam and even an R-27ET seeker head can lock at 20km (11nm). So between this and the sub-20km example that used laser pulses and two aircraft communicating (hence not passive), there’s absolutely no evidence that Spectra brings any new capabilities to the table whatsoever.

In the 7.8nm shot, the target was 7.8nm away to start with, so how far would the missile have to go? Less than 7.8nm (14km) and it wasn’t even a live shot, i.e. no missile was actually fired, so it’s an entirely hypothetical success.

In the following test with an ASRAAM however, a live missile was actually fired at low altitude at a target “well in excess of 5km” away.

http://defense-update.com/newscast/0309/asraam_loal_test_130309.html

This engagement simulated a “chase down” situation by an enemy fighter and successfully demonstrated the potential for an all-round self protection capability with the ASRAAM. The missile was fired at a target located behind the wing-line of the ‘shooter’ aircraft, flying at low level and typical fighter speed, at a target located behind the fighter at a range in excess of 5km. The result was a direct hit on the target. This capability is inherent on all platforms that provide pre-launch ‘over the shoulder’ designation information such as F/A-18, Eurofighter Typhoon and F-35 JSF.

Unlike missiles equipped with radio datalink to facilitate lock on after launch functionality, ASRAAM performs LOAL capability by predicting where the target could be as its seeker enters search mode after launch. Given the missile’s high angle of attack capability and seeker’s 90 degrees off-boresight angle, ASRAAM is free to engage any target in the front or rear hemisphere immediately after being launched. Employing a ‘silent’ LOAL mode enables ASRAAM to be used with stealth fighters such as the F-35 even under full stealth mode. In this mode of operation the missile can receive target cues from InfraRed Search and Track (IRST) or helmet sighting systems. The seeker can also receive target cues from external sources, such as oter aircraft in the formation or AWACS. LOAL capability is also essential for the F-35 as in most configurations, missiles are carried and released from within the weapon’s bay, where their seekers cannot establish ‘Lock On Before Launch’ (LOBL) like contemporary short range interceptors.