RAF are moving forward with F-35 and Tempest.
Unlike France who depend on the Rafale as they have no 5th Gen aircraft.
Genuinely think the Typhoon will never reach it’s true potential with many of the planned/proposed upgrades being used on the Tempest.
With tempest planned for 2035 i think it was, it wouldn’t make much sense for UK/Italy to fund more of eurofighter program, so it would leave only Germany with such a need as SCAF will take more time but is not just for the plane but the whole system around and there is no way they will fund more updates, so most likely tranche 5 will be the last.
Tranche 4 is the next large evolution with AESA Captor E
After that who knows, Germany were going to purchase F-35 not sure if old Donald has scuppered that.
Well for germany the main point of f35 was dropping nukes with a modern plane, not stealth or whatever.
Yes that too Tornado is still certified and if they just wanted an EW platform that could drop a nuke…Well they could just buy EA-18Gs
F18 are no longer produced, even swiss were denied super hornet when they wanted to.
The max speed of ASRAAM is likely quite significantly above Mach 3. I did some napkin maths once and came up with peak speeds well in excess of Mach 4. Based on the design requirements and the claimed thermal heading experienced by the missile.
They were offered Growlers once upon a time, per unit cost the F-35 probably works out at a similar cost.
The Nuclear deterrent is a NATO stipulation if the US leaves NATO this wont be necessary for Germany
Would be interesting to know where the limit is speedwise. At those Mach numbers (>4) the heat generated around the seeker section would be immense. This reduces the clarity of the image because of thermal noise (generated by the heated seeker head/lense itself) and it would reduce the cooling effectivity of the sensor array itself. I don’t exactly know how it’s cooled but AFAIK the first generation got preecooled by the plane, while Block 6 has an internal stirling/ pulse tube cryocooler/stirling cooler. Could be totally wrong though :D
Its going to be like the Stormer Starstreak
We will get barely Mach 3.0 modelled based on MBDA promotional materials :(
I don’t really get why so many fighter planes with fly-by-wire controls still have their sidestick in the middle between the legs instead on the right console (like the F-16). Would assume it would be much more ergonomical for the pilot espacially when sustaining G-Forces.
Probably down to muscle memory. Relearning to fly with the stick in an entirely different place is probably the same as learning to drive a right-hand drive manual and then having to drive a left-hand drive manual. Yes you can do it, but the muscle memory is entirely off.
Typhoon had to satisfy 4 nations requirements.
If the pilots are used to the stick in the centre it made sense to continue that?
I mean, if you already train on a new plane (e.g. if you come from a Tornado and switch to the EF) I would assume that you already have to relearn all controls, buttons, etc. The position of the sidestick should be the least of the hassles you go through. If you come from an EF and go to a newer EF then yes, it would be much more of a problem I guess…
But even going from aircraft to aircraft. If you’ve had 10 years of experience with a centre stick, relearning with a side stick is still going to take a lot of retraining.
Serious talk now I don’t have the Typhoon on the dev server (never really play the dev)
From what I am seeing the Typhoon has been changed and nerfed pretty heavily.
While still retaining a very poor Radar.
No additional missiles yet every competitor carries more…
No fixes to ground attack munitions (Brimstone 2)
No Ground Radar mode or Pirate detecting ground vehicles.
No UV filter for the cockpit.
What we did get.
A MAWS system that can detect missile but cant highlight them or tell you what type of missile has been launched at you. (How good would it have been to get the missile diamond round the missile your MAWS has detected with a counter for time to impact?)
In testing will likely will never save your life (excluding 80s Soviet IR missiles) Lets see it defeat a Magic 2 or R-77 for me…
A Radar interrogation mode that all new jets have.
MFD stuff?
Likely going to retire the Typhoon (only reason I was playing top tier it certainly wasn’t for the CR2s!)
Hey can someone help me to find the sources where the devs justify the g-limit, AoA, thrust to weight and all the nerfs that have been done to the EF lately?
Thank You.
More for the air force I guess
