26 Facts About Eurofighter Typhoon

Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter.

The aircraft's name, Eurofighter Typhoon, was adopted in September 1998 and the first production contracts were signed that year.

Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft, designed to be an effective dogfighter in combat.

The Eurofighter 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.

In Turin on 2August 1985, West Germany, the UK and Italy agreed to go ahead with the Eurofighter Typhoon; and confirmed France, along with Spain, had chosen not to proceed as a member of the project.

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Maiden flight of the Eurofighter Typhoon prototype took place in Bavaria on 27 March 1994, flown by DASA chief test pilot Peter Weger.

Eurofighter Typhoon is unique in modern combat aircraft in that there are four separate assembly lines.

On 31 March 2009, a Eurofighter Typhoon fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM whilst having its radar in passive mode for the first time; the necessary target data for the missile was acquired by the radar of a second Eurofighter Typhoon and transmitted using the Multifunctional Information Distribution System .

Also in 2015, Airbus flight tested a package of aerodynamic upgrades for the Eurofighter Typhoon known as the Aerodynamic Modification Kit consisting of reshaped fuselage strakes, extended trailing-edge flaperons and leading-edge root extensions.

Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft both at supersonic and at low speeds, achieved through having an intentionally relaxed stability design.

In 2017 a RAF Eurofighter Typhoon demonstrated interoperability with the F-35B using its Multifunction Advanced Data Link in a two-week trial known as Babel Fish III, in the Mojave Desert.

The Eurofighter Typhoon operates automatic Emission Controls to reduce the electro-magnetic emissions of the current CAPTOR mechanically scanned radar.

AESA radar program for Eurofighter Typhoon is split into three European Common Radar System variants:.

Eurofighter Typhoon is capable of supersonic cruise without using afterburners .

The Eurofighter Typhoon is certainly, as far as smoothness of controls and the ability to pull, very impressive.

On 4 August 2003, the German Air Force accepted its first series production Eurofighter Typhoon starting the replacement process of the Mikoyan MiG-29s inherited from the East German Air Force.

The first Luftwaffe Wing to accept the Eurofighter Typhoon was Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff" on 30 April 2004 at Rostock–Laage Airport.

On 16 December 2005, the F-2000 Eurofighter Typhoon reached initial operational capability with the Italian Air Force .

On 11 September 2015, Eurofighter Typhoon confirmed that an agreement had been reached to supply Kuwait with 28 aircraft.

In late 2009, four RAF Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s were deployed to RAF Mount Pleasant, replacing the Tornado F3s of No 1435 Flight defending the Falkland Islands.

The UK's then Defence Secretary Liam Fox admitted on 14 April 2011 that Britain's Eurofighter Typhoon jets were grounded in 2010 due to shortage of spare parts.

On 3December 2015, six Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s deployed to RAF Akrotiri to support operations against ISIL.

On 1 April 2019, No IX Squadron officially converted from the Tornado GR4 to the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4, becoming an aggressor and air defence squadron at Lossiemouth.

On 14 December 2021, the RAF executed its first operational air-to-air engagement with a Eurofighter Typhoon, shooting down a small hostile drone with an ASRAAM near the Al-Tanf coalition base in Syria.

On 29 September 2008, the United States Department of State approved the Typhoon sale, required because of a certain technology governed by the ITAR process which was incorporated into the MIDS of the Eurofighter.

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In 2005 the Eurofighter Typhoon was a contender for Singapore's next generation fighter requirement competing with the Boeing F-15SG and the Dassault Rafale.