A new update, but the Typhoon and PZH2000 are still so bad
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A thing i notice with the typhoon radar is it detects targets with the first pass but can’t update them, even after a dozen passes sometimes, which means you basically have no tracking data for up to 3 seconds which can kill you at 10-20 km range.
Why does that happen? Is it supposed to be like that?
Nah G limits are okay, 9G typical load 12G permissible, 12 x 1.5 = 18G and it breaks at peak 18G.
Can’t it get double rack for amraam though?
Some mock-ups for the next gen of typhoon I believe
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Even the pantsir has difficulty killing you in the eurofighter, it can’t really hit a target notching at >M 1 (and bobbing up and down a bit) even at close range 3-8 Km.
You can literally outpull the enemy missile head-on.
At long last, we have a hard counter
maybe next update russia gets the pantsir sm so we’ll see how we do against that
Will the radar of the typhoon be completed, after reading the update package just now, I am afraid that the radar will always be in this copy-paste bad state, which will ruin the typhoon
Can someone please explain to me how MAW works on the eurofighter. ik what MAW is but from like what distence does it work and from what angles etc.
Calculated from radar dome size of the tail antenna and used frequeny (Ka band) the range of the MAWS PD-Radar is assumed to be as followed (no source as these are assumptions based on calculations):
MANPADS (0,01 m²) → 11 km
Air-to-Air missile (0,1 m²) → 20 km
Small fighter plane (2,5 m²) → 44 km
Big fighter plane (25 m²) → 78 km
The MAWS should scan ±60° in elevation (vertical) as the three antennas have to scan ±60° in azimut (horiontal) too to ensure 360° observation, otherwise there would be three blindspots 30° each horizontally. So the MAWS has a 60° blindspot above and below the plane.
Ah ok
Whaat?
What are you saying, the operating load is 9g, no one will do higher. This means that if you count on 12G, then the design of the aircraft will be overloaded
Would be interesting to know how much the wings of the EF can really take as this plane is made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics (70%) with both wings completly made from CFP which is incomparably stronger and lighter than Alumina, Steel and Titanium.
Besides that should make the EF also more resilent against breaking of parts due to shrapnel as the tear propagation is nearly non existent thanks to its fiber mat nature compared to metallic materials.
The power pack is made of either steel or titanium
Of course the hot sections (APU and engine compartment) are made from metals. CFP cannot withstand such temperatures. I was talking about the body and wings.
Everything yellow and green should be CFP including the outer skin of the aircraft (except the canards). The yellow around the engine section is isolated from the engine by a metal sheet (which is cut open in your last picture, so you only see a part of it).
It says it’s aluminum and titanium.