Eurofighter Typhoon (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion (Part 1)

[Morvran]

December 2024:

BAE Systems is already developing Striker II under a £40 million contract announced by the UK Ministry of Defence in September 2023 which will see the helmet undergo flight trials in the coming months. The latest investment will fund the next stage of development, ensuring the helmet achieves a production-ready standard. - Source

So, Id guess not in service yet, but has either undergone flight trials or is about to.

Shouldnt have any intergration issues with older aircraft, especially current Striker I users like the Typhoon

Striker II has been specifically designed to allow for easy integration across a wide range of platforms. It’s compatible with aircraft that have analog display drive electronics, via a low latency converter, and has a digital interface for aircraft with digital display drives. Its comprehensive list of features work together seamlessly to provide pilots with unmatched awareness. Most importantly, the information is displayed in an intuitive way, allowing for a natural response in what can be the most challenging and unnatural of environments.

BAE Systems can provide complete HMD System solution using the Striker II, or work with customers to integrate Striker II into existing aircraft architectures on an Open Architecture basis to give customers the freedom and ability to develop their own symbology/display formats, and provide optimized aircraft mounted hardware solutions. - Source

You can see what it looks like in this:

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45w198bZkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdPylWKX6uA

Edit: According the BBC, it has a planned finished development date of 2027

The firm aims to finish development in 2027, with production starting soon after. - Source

and according to this tweet from January 28th, trials have started, including night flights

https://x.com/BAESystemsplc/status/1884315507727196508

Which should be more than enough to get it added to in-game.

[UNN_Daedalos]

@Gunjob

80nm (148km), also note the SPEAR-EW version has a flight time of 37 minutes.

[JFIESTASR]

[ÖL]

Will we get a typhoon which can carry more missiles? Does uk have that in real life? Or is it stuck with 6 ARH?

[Tonedbasil69-live]

Most EFT’s are probably capable of more than 6. But we’ll probably never know unless the need to field more than 6 arises

[Morvran]

Yeah, What Tonedbasil said.

Primary/Secondary-ish sources suggest that the inner most wing pylons can carry BVRAAMs but it just appears to have never been done (publicly) IRL and what is needed is pictures or better yet a video of BVRAAMs equipped to thsoe pylons.

But ASRAAM and IRIS-T would likely be better in the short term than 2 extra Aim-120Bs

[MythicPi]

Different way of getting an object to do a thing basically.

Simplest/best example I’ve found explaining it is this one from a reddit post:

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All control systems work by looking at the current state of the system and the state you want, then applying a bunch of math to figure out how to alter the system (using actuators) to get the current state closer to the state you want. The difference between PID and H-infinity theory is the kind of math you apply.

In PID, you look at the literal difference (the desired state minus the current state). You use that difference three ways. The “P” part of PID is Proportional. Multiple the difference by a number you choose and you get a value that’s proportional to the difference. You also calculate the Integral (“I”) and Derivative (“D”) of the difference and multiply those by numbers you choose. Sum all that stuff up and you get a value that you feed your actuator. The art of PID control, then, is to choose what numbers you multiply the terms by so that you get the results you want.

In H-infinity control, you’re not constrained to just work with the pure difference between the current and desired state, and you don’t need to just multiply by a few chosen numbers. You set up a matrix of possible things you can do and then use optimization (a mathmatical procedure) to find the values in the matrix that give the results you want. The art of H-infinity is setting up the correct optimization problem; you don’t actually pick the values, they come out of the optimization.

PID is simple (so you can execute it on cheap hardware) and easy to understand (so you can teach it and troubleshoot it easily). However, it’s hard to extend it to complicated multi-variable systems and since you’re just using substraction and straight multiplication you’re limited in the amount of neat things you can do.

H-infinity can handle much more complicated systems and lets you define the problem in terms of the results you want at the end, so there’s less iteration. The cost is much higher complexity to figure it out and to run it, so you need more capable and expensive tools to develop and run it.

Sorry for the late reply

[ShOt_MaCkEr]

SPEAR this patch?

Spoiler

[MythicPi]

Only place SPEAR would actually be useful would be air sim, and even then, the small payload likely means it could be very hit or miss.

Theoretically though, it would provide a challenger to the SDB-1’s in battlefield clearing, which would be interesting.

I’d love to see an EFT using the quad racks for SPEAR though. The triple racks are nice, and likely more than enough for IRL roles, but in WT, the triple racks means the EFT needs to carry the full 6 stations to clear a battlefield iirc, which cuts down your already meager ARH load from 6x down to 4x, and your total AAM count from 8-10 down to 6.

[Morvran]

Im hoping for them in a purely GPS-Only GBU-39 style weapon where they should be fine in most gamemodes, if nothing else as decoys.

[ÖL]

Ah thats sad… i would love to have 4 more aim 120…

[Dontkev-psn]

Well, you can pick up to 6…

[ÖL]

I know? Haha

[ÖL]

When the iris t comes. Will it be able to be on a dual rack like the sim 9m?

[ILuvAnneHathaway]

most likely

[ron_23]

is the asramm be able to?
or does it use a different launch rail from the sidewinders unlike the IRIS-T

[ILuvAnneHathaway]

No idea tbh

[Tea_And_Country]

i think wherever an aam9 can fitt an asraam can.

[Mytho-GR1]

ASRAAM works on the same rails as any AIM-9M

[Smugspite]

funny enough im pretty sure the dual rack was a liberty gaijin took because I know the dual rack was for ASRAAMs