{"id":8839,"date":"2023-09-03T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2024-11-10T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T20:47:19","slug":"about-the-eurofighter-and-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/about-the-eurofighter-and-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Eurofighter, and its future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s happening to the Eurofighter Typhoon<\/a>? Do we need a replacement, and who’s going to build it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, What does the future hold for Eurofighter Typhoon?<\/a>, Air Force Technology suggest that it’s design is old, and that the older versions are being retired; they argue that the Tempest programme is an upgrade programme and does not aim to produce a 6th generation warplane<\/a> see also here<\/a>. They argue that the reality is that the RAF have nor prioritised air superiority and the the mix of Typhoons and F35 Lightenings<\/a> do not provide an appropriate platform for Air Defence and that the RAF crew are not trained or practised, arguably thankfully, for air combat against an advanced air force<\/acronym>. However wikipedia believes that the BAE Tempest<\/a> is to be a 6th Generation fighter. This is to be built by a British, Italian and Japanese consortium<\/a>. The government commitment to the plane is reported here<\/a> by Lisa West of the UK Defence Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does it need replacement, I wrote this, in my review of the 2020 white paper<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On ground attack warplanes, do we need a new one? The Jaguar lasted 32 years<\/a> and its replacement,  the first eurofighter Tornado<\/a> was retired in 2018 and we are now using Typhoons, first launched in 1994, so over 25 years old although the last one was delivered to the RAF in 2019. Here is an Australian\u2019s analysis, called \u201cDemon or Lemon\u201d<\/a>; he comes down in the middle but definitely not a Lemon in 2000, whether it\u2019s so in 2020 is another question and it wasn\u2019t designed as a ground attack plane.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I found a video on the Typhoon vs the F22 (a 5th Gen warplane); the Eurofighters involved were German. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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