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.
https://eurofighter.airpower.at/technik-struktur.htm
Judging from these values here:
438 kg → CFP
179 kg → Titanium
174 kg → Alumina
33 kg → Rivets
Even though CFP has much lesser voluemtric mass (1,5 g/cm³) than titanium (4,5 g/cm³) and alumina (2,7 g/cm³) it has a much bigger part of the whole weight of the wing, so its volumetric usage in the wing is about 70-80% (roughly estimated not calculated).
With that constellation the titanium and alumina would be used for the ailerons and the landing gear bay. If the inner structure of the wing were made from alumina and titanium these weights wouldn’t make any sense. So my guess is: Outer skin and inner structure are made from CFP while landing gear bay, some control surfaces and some connection parts (wing to body) are made of metals.
only the outer parts are shown here. The same power frame is not shown. She’s she’s probably all made of metal
it’s metal
I was talking about the wing and the listed weights are for the whole including its inner structure.
I was talking about the wing the whole time lol
I never doubted that the engine bay itself is made from metal as written above.
The TGP sometimes just turns pure white and you need to turn the thermals on and off to fix it
The Gripen wing is attached to the body with ikea bathtub style fittings, and I am not even joking about that. Ever since the Gripen was added with 12G capability I stopped caring about realism in regards to G overloads. @BBCRF
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I will quote myself…
Outer skin and inner structure are made from CFP while landing gear bay, some control surfaces and some connection parts (wing to body) are made of metals.
Clearly more of it is metal, and the Gripen as well;
These aircraft do not show features that are indicative of high sustained G loading.