The Eurofighter Typhoon is a multi role and twin engine fighter jet manufactured in 1994 with collaboration of consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo. It is a highly able to move quickly and easily designed to be a supremely effective dogfighter in combat.
The Typhoon had its combat debut during the 2011 military intervention in Libya with the UK's Royal Air Force and the Italian Air Force, performing aerial reconnaissance and ground-strike missions. The Eurofighter Typhoon is unique in modern combat aircraft in that there are four separate assembly lines.
The Engine
The engines deliver 1,000 flying hours without needing unscheduled maintenance through the use of advanced integrated Health Monitoring for class-leading reliability, maintainability and Through Life Cost.
Specifications
Origin Multinational
Max Speed 2495 km/h
Length 15.96m
Max Altitude 5000ft
Wingspan 10.95m
Cost 90 million Euro
The Eurofighter Typhoon Features
Air Combat Acquisition Modes allowing a choice of boresight, vertical scan HUD field of view or slaved acquisition.
Search Modes - Range While Search (RWS), Velocity Search (VS) and multiple target Track While Scan (TWS)
Track Modes - Fixed Target Track and Moving Target Track
Operators
The Eurofighter Typhoon is significantly operated by 9 countries.
Austria, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and United Kingdom
Materials
Strong, lightweight composite materials is used to design the Eurofighter Typhoon. Using them means the weight of the airframe is 30% less than for traditional materials.
Carbon Fiber Composite 70%
Metals 15%
Glass Reinforced Plastic 12%
Other materials 3%
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