Eurofighter Typhoon (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion (Part 2)

luque13 · August 9, 2025, 6:02pm

I mean more the UK likely wont spend the money on these upgrades and we will see it in Tempest.

Morvran · August 9, 2025, 6:03pm

We’ll see, lots of benefits from doing it, especially when combined with CAPTOR-E Mk2 and Striker II

Flame2512 · August 9, 2025, 6:18pm

When I Tempest was revealed at Farnborough Airshow the BAE systems reps I spoke to said the cockpit wouldn’t have any instrumentation and it would all be displayed via the HMD. Basically why waste money and weight on instruments when the HMD can just overlay virtual instruments onto a blank instrument panel (or anywhere else the pilot wants). True to their word the mock up they let people sit in had no instrument panel.

Morvran · August 9, 2025, 6:24pm

Is it time for a Tempest thread I wonder?

luque13 · August 9, 2025, 6:35pm

That’s surpising having only one system the HMD to do it all doesn’t give the pilot any form of redundancy?

Kir · August 9, 2025, 7:18pm

There is already one, tho I think it uses GCAP in the title

Edit: This one

Flame2512 · August 9, 2025, 8:19pm

Yeah seemed a bit odd to me too, but that’s what they said. That was back in 2018 though, so could have changed since then.

Metaltank1990 · August 10, 2025, 12:16am

Don’t want to.
It’s literally just changing the band of the sensor (or adding -1 to the detection list on the LWR)

DevilO6 · August 10, 2025, 5:10am

Ok, then what do you do about all the systems that don’t use LRF, but also use the - 1?

Metaltank1990 · August 10, 2025, 5:37am

Well that’s where changing the band comes in, currently designators and beam riders are on 2 separate bands. I don’t see why they couldn’t swap the number of trackers to something new so detecting laser trackers is a new thing.

DevilO6 · August 10, 2025, 6:14am

That most likely requires deeper changes in the code, if it even can be changed.

Rileyy3437-live · August 10, 2025, 7:16am

It really cannot be overstated how good Striker I and II are and how confident they are in their systems redundancy and capabilities, i’m personally very curious to see if for Tempest they just utilise a software updated Striker II initially or whether they make a new HMD.

I think having backup instruments is very important though just incase, there’s no way Striker II has never had a failure of some sort, and expecting the pilot to fly it down without any instruments is no small feat.