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Los Saudíes tenian intensión de comprar otro lote adicional de efas no? al final en que quedo? no piensan dar de baja los Tornado o F-15 de las versiones más obsoletas?
ALAN WARNES in TURIN. – Among the many guests at the unveiling of the 500th Eurofighter at Leonardo's Turin-Caselle facility, on Tuesday was a small Kuwait delegation. It was headed up by the Kuwait Ambassador to Italy, His Excellency Sheikh Ali Khalid Al Sabah, who was presented with the first component to be built for the first Kuwait Air Force Eurofighter.
On April 5 last year, Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) signed a deal believed to be worth nearly $9 billion with the Kuwait Air Force for 28 Eurofighters. The contract includes 22 single-seater and six twin seater Tranche 3s aircraft. Drawn from the Italian production line, deliveries of the jets are expected to commence in 2019 through to 2023. The KAF Eurofighters will be the first to be fitted with the new Leonardo Air and Space Systems (formerly Selex ES) E-Scan radar known as Captor-E. It comes after an agreement was penned in November 2014 to develop the new electronic radar.
With 87 of the 96 Italian aircraft built at Leonardo’s production facilities, a Leonardo Aircraft Division official said: “Production will be slowed down next year to bridge the production gap of the 28 new build Kuwaiti jets.”
With just nine aircraft to be delivered before 2019, that points to a considerable decrease in production.
He added, “As well as the aircraft, the contract includes three years of support, from delivery of the first aircraft; training for operations with the Italian Air Force and to build up the infrastructure at Ali Al Salem Air Base where they will be housed. A complete training package will be created for the Academy training centre.”
The Kuwaiti aircraft will be built to P3EB standard, which along with the Captor-E includes integration of the Storm Shadow cruise missile, Brimstone 2 ground attack weapon and Meteor beyond visual range air to air air (BVRAAM) although it has never been confirmed that Kuwait has ordered any of the weapons. Most agree it is going to be a tight deadline, getting all of them into service by the end of 2018.
Radar development and integration is the responsibility of Leonardo, although both Eurofighters which are fitted with the Captor-E are not based in Italy. Instrumented Production Aircraft 5 (IPA-5) is at BAE Warton, and had commenced flight trials by mid-July 2016. A second Eurofighter, IPA-8, based at Manching in southern Germany, has now joined the AESA integration programme after making its first flight on September 14 last year. Unfortunately Eurofighter Chief Executive Officer Volker Paltzo would not confirm how the programme had progressed or how many hours of airborne CAPTOR-E testing the aircraft had flown to date.
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Sourcrs also told me that eight Kuwait Air Force instructor pilots will join the Italian Air Force’s Typhoon operational conversion unit with 4 Stormo at Grosseto to learn to fly the Typhoon, then instruct back in Kuwait.
21st April 2017, 17:58 Scorpion82
Components production has already started. Late 2019 is the plan, but there is a risk that this may slip into early 2020.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... 015/page59
Sabeis si han salido los datos de la red-flag??
A Eurofighter Typhoon has successfully completed a simultaneous firing of two MBDA Meteor Beyond Visual Range air-to-air missiles as part of a major programme of work to integrate the weapon on to the aircraft.
The test was conducted using Airbus Defence & Space Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA) 4 with the support of BAE Systems, Eurofighter GmbH, MBDA and the UK‘s Ministry of Defence.
The trial was used to test successful engagement of targets and the simultaneous two-way data link between two missiles and the aircraft. The data gathered follows a series of six successful Meteor firings conducted from EurofighterTyphoon in 2016.
Operational evaluation with UK Royal Air Force due to begin later in 2017
Drizzt escribió:..........Entiendo que el IPA4 es el instrumentando del Ejército del Aire?
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El IPA4 es el avión pagado por el Ejército del Aire, para ser instrumentado, para el uso y disfrute de su fabricante.
The trial was used to test successful engagement of targets and the simultaneous two-way data link between two missiles and the aircraft. The data gathered follows a series of six successful Meteor firings conducted from EurofighterTyphoon in 2016.
Operational evaluation with UK Royal Air Force due to begin later in 2017
https://www.eurofighter.com/news-and-ev ... er-typhoon
Wing Commander Chris Hoyle, commanding officer of the RAF’s 1(Fighter) Squadron told me during Exercise Atlantic Trident 17 at Joint Base Langley Eustis in Virginia last week. “Meteor’s IOC [initial operational capability] I believe is in late ’18. We start the work up for the tactical development of its employment in early ’18. We’ll have all the software loaded on, we’ll start to develop tactics that we’ll release to the force by the end of that year.”
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The addition of the Meteor massively boosts the Typhoon’s air-to-air prowess. Especially in combination with the Typhoon’s outstanding high altitude performance and blistering speed, the Meteor offers incredible range combined with improved radar guidance. [y el enlace de doble vía]
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To fully take advantage of the capabilities of the Meteor, the RAF is hoping to field a new CAPTOR-E active electronically scanned array radar by 2021, Hoyle said. But the aircraft will have the full capability to use the Meteor even with its current mechanically scanned radar—it just won’t be able to use all of the features of the new weapon. “There are some things that you’re able to unlock when you have an AESA, but it will still be a fielded weapon in our arsenal with a mechanically scanned radar,” Hoyle said. “This is probably the world’s best mechanically scanned radar—so it is a very good radar.”
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http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... ller-20438
Y curioso también lo que comentas Orel, lo de "enseñar" al avión los distinto acentos en inglés. No tenía ni idea.
También curioso ver la pierna derecha del piloto con los papeleos de rigor y en la izquierda con una tablet. Me pregunto si será un modelo comercial del mercado de consumo o algún modelo "rugerizado".
El 29 de mayo [de 2015], por autorización del jefe de Estado Mayor del Aire, el 45 Grupo recibió la aprobación operacional para la utilización de los dispositivos iPad e iPad Mini como EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) en sus flotas de T.18 [Falcon 900] y T.22 [A310], convirtiéndose en la primera Unidad del Ejército del Aire certificada para utilizar este tipo de Bolsa de Vuelo Electrónica en la cabina de sus aeronaves.
Las Bolsas de Vuelo Electrónicas (EFB) están extendiendo su uso ganando terreno en el mundo de la aviación, llegando incluso a sustituir todo el papel que transporta un tripulante en la cabina de vuelo. Existen muchos modelos de hardware y software que se podrían adaptar a las necesidades propias de un vuelo convencional, pero el uso extendido del dispositivo de Apple hace que la implantación del mismo en cualquier cabina de vuelo, sea un proceso más fácil. Este hecho ya se ha demostrado con la aprobación de este dispositivo, como EFB, en diferentes líneas aéreas de ámbito civil y en fuerzas aéreas como la USAF.
Todo el proceso de implantación se ha basado en la Directiva 33/12 sobre sistemas de Bolsa de Vuelo Electrónica (EFB) en el Ejército del Aire, sancionada por el JEMA el 23 de noviembre de 2012. Esta directiva explica el procedimiento a seguir para obtener la aprobación operacional del dispositivo EFB en cabina, y las prioridades para su implantación en el Ejército del Aire.
El proceso de implantación, que acaba de culminar con esta aprobación, se inició el 31 de mayo de 2013. Durante este periodo, se han realizado ensayos en tierra, ensayos en vuelo, y una amplia serie de misiones, que avalan la fiabilidad, seguridad y facilidad de uso de este dispositivo en una cabina de vuelo.
La introducción de esta nueva capacidad, además de la mencionada reducción en papel, ha supuesto una mejora cualitativa en la información aeronáutica que manejan los pilotos, redundando en un aumento de la seguridad de vuelo.
Revista de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica nº 846 de septiembre de 2015
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