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por alejandro_ el Lun Mar 12, 2018 3:48 pm
Teoría mas que dudosa, ya que el Reino Unido solo construye una parte del EFA, y el resto se construye de países que hacen parte de la UE.
Y mas dudoso todavía que empresas como BAE o Leonardo acepten aceite de palma como forma de pago.
por champi el Lun Mar 12, 2018 7:03 pm
https://twitter.com/GunshipGirl/status/ ... 7986913280
INVENTORY DOMINIC PERRY LONDON
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Meanwhile, for the service’s 128-strong Eurofghter ?eet, an average of 81 aircraft were available, of which 39 – or 48% – were deployable. This “unsatisfactory ratio of assets to total inventory” was unchanged from the previous year and was pinned on alack of spare parts and long-term maintenance issues.
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por Orel el Mar Mar 13, 2018 8:21 pm
Por cierto, en Flight International nos dan cifras sobre disponibilidad de la flota alemana.
por champi el Jue Mar 15, 2018 4:35 pm
Thursday 1 February: Several coalition aircraft, including an RAF Reaper and two Tornados, supported the SDF as they cleared a village of terrorists. The Reaper spotted an anti-tank gun team firing at the SDF, and guided the strike on the weapon team by a coalition aircraft. The Reaper then hit three more terrorist positions, and the Tornados eliminated a heavy machine-gun team.
Friday 2 February:
Saturday 3 February:
Sunday 4 February: a Reaper hit another building held by a large group of terrorists.
Monday 5 February: a Reaper struck a pair of terrorists riding a motorcycle at speed across countryside.
Wednesday 7 February: another Reaper tracked a number of terrorist targets in the same area, allowing two Daesh-held buildings to be struck successfully by coalition fast jets. The Reaper dealt with a third such building used as a firing point against the SDF, whilst two Tornados destroyed a terrorist observation post, then attacked a building from which a Daesh team planting booby-traps was operating.
Friday 9 February: a Reaper provided surveillance support to a series of coalition air strikes on terrorist targets, and conducted an attack with a Hellfire missile against a group of extremists who were firing upon the Syrian Democratic Forces. A Tornado flight also carried out successful attacks on two Daesh-held buildings.
Saturday 10 February: a Reaper hit two groups of terrorists operating within buildings, and two other groups fighting in the open. The Reaper’s crew then tracked a local terrorist command team as it moved between locations, supporting a successful attack by coalition fast jets.
Typhoon FGR4s, based at RAF Akrotiri and supported by a Voyager air-refuelling tanker, conducted an armed reconnaissance patrol over the Euphrates river in eastern Syria on Wednesday 14 February, in support of the continuing operations by the Syrian Democratic Forces to eliminate the Daesh presence in the area. A mechanical excavator, used by the terrorists to construct fortified positions, was identified and destroyed by a Paveway IV guided bomb.
Heavy cloud hampered, but did not prevent, effective air operations in eastern Syria on Friday 16 February. A flight of
An RAF Reaper patrolled over the Euphrates on Tuesday 20 February, using its advanced surveillance capabilities to scout ahead of the Syrian Democratic Forces. The Reaper’s crew conducted two attacks with Hellfire missiles on identified armed terrorists, including a successful strike against a pair on a motorcycle moving at high speed.
Royal Air Force aircraft continued to fly daily armed reconnaissance patrols over eastern Syria, but the next air strikes did not occur until Wednesday 28 February. One flight of
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por Orel el Jue Mar 15, 2018 7:15 pm
A destacar las Paveway [IV] lanzadas contra objetivos cubiertos por nubes con los cuales no había línea de visión por parte de los pilotos de Eurofighter.
por Orel el Vie Mar 16, 2018 3:33 pm
por champi el Dom Mar 18, 2018 12:44 pm
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Discussions are ongoing about the option of service life extension for national TORNADO fleets to beyond the year 2025 and the replacement of the EUROFIGHTER TYPHOONs at some point in the future. Against this background, ESD spoke with LtGen. Gabriele Salvestroni, the General Manager of the NATO EF 2000 and TORNADO Development, Production & Logistics Management Agency NETMA.
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ESD: What are the advantages of the “Agreement to Streamline the Type and Airworthiness Certification Process and Reduce the Workload on Nations and their Military Aviation Authorities” for the EUROFIGHTER/TYPHOON programme?
Gen. Salvestroni: Nations and Industry have adopted the principles of the European Military Airworthiness Requirements (EMAR) for EUROFIGHTER to allow granting design organisation privileges for minor changes and repairs. Since its first step of implementation in 2016, it has released nations’ scarce resources from involvement in the certification of many minor changes and at the same time reduced the processing time of those changes by two-thirds, helping production deliveries. Reliance on the respective ‘lead’ certification officials in the progression of major changes is now underpinned in a fully regulated compliant manner by mutual recognition and can therefore free three-quarters of effort from nations at a system level. Still, we do not see the full benefit because of a surge of national clearances. The next steps are related to repair, and this is expected to help in-service fleet maintenance by allowing repairs developed once to be applied everywhere without further approval loops. Retrospectively, a big effort for processes and approval of design organisations has been necessary. On the other hand, we have commonly achieved the first conversion of a ‘legacy’ fighter aircraft to EMAR principles, which has future-proofed the EUROFIGHTER programme.
ESD: What chance do you envision for subsequent EUROFIGHTER Tranche 3B or 4 production programmes?
Gen. Salvestroni: At present, Tranche 3 production and assembly for core nations is continuing, along with production orders for our export customers in Oman, Kuwait and Qatar. While the core nations continue to regularly review the composition of their air forces, the procurement of an additional Tranche always remains a possibility and of course the German Air Force recently released a request for information for a possible procurement of additional aircraft to replace its TORNADO fleet and will be considering several candidates including the EUROFIGHTER.
ESD: Your previous position was that of the Comandante Logistico dell’Aeronautica Militare, thus offering insight into the spare parts supply to the Italian Air Force. What is your opinion of the spare parts management in the scope of the EUROFIGHTER programme?
Gen. Salvestroni: In the late ‘90s, the four nations set up arrangements to manage the supply chain for the in-service phase of the EUROFIGHTER in a centralised manner, via two main contracts: one for the procurement of new spares and one for the repair of repairable parts. The former was based on best endeavour, while the latter required a turn-around time for a selected number of items (avionics), with the others managed on a case-by-case basis. For both contracts, IT tools were available, which provided full visibility on the status of the procurement or repair orders placed by the customer.
Around 2012, nations decided to change this spare management construct, with the aim of increasing their fleet availability and reducing the sustainment costs. A new suite of contracts was agreed with Eurofighter GmbH and the former repair contract was replaced by Contract No.3 (Dec 2016), where each nation defined its specific requirements for a support solution based on availability at platform, equipment or component level. Thus, nations moved from centralised spares management to national support solutions agreed with their respective industries, with specific performance measurements, terms and conditions.
It is premature to say whether the new course undertaken by nations is delivering the envisaged benefits. At the moment,
ESD: What is the status for the retrofit of an AESA radar?
Gen. Salvestroni: As with any project of this complexity, there are still technical challenges to be overcome, but overall efforts to fit an AESA radar to TYPHOON are proceeding well. The AESA system will bring a step-change in capability and will also be supported by a fundamental reworking of the methodology used to manage sensors on board the aircraft. Furthermore, nations are already looking at the next evolution of the TYPHOON’s radar systems, to make sure the platform continues to be credible as the threat environment develops.
ESD: Considering the lessons learned from the TORNADO programme, what measures are taken by NETMA to prevent a separation of technology standards between the four nations in the EUROFIGHTER/TYPHOON programme?
Gen. Salvestroni: The TYPHOON programme is built around consensus between the four core nations, and so it is essential that they have a very clear process for maximising commonality in their requirements. Presenting industry with a single joint requirement helps to minimise divergence within the technical solutions which they then develop. Inevitably, there will be times when a nation requires something unique – in support of current operations, for example – but the programme philosophy is to draw these individual technology solutions back into the common baseline as quickly as possible. Without this, the programme would soon be managing numerous variants of TYPHOON for each nation, with all the cost and complexity this would entail.
ESD: Does NETMA have a role for the export customers like Austria, Saudi Arabia or Oman? Do you support the EUROFIGHTER export campaigns?
Gen. Salvestroni:The role and relationship of NETMA with Austria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is clearly defined through specific Association Memorandums Of Understanding (MOU) between the four core nations and each export partner nation. Under the umbrella of these MOUs, both export partners have a Programme Liaison Office (PLO) within NETMA. The objective of these PLOs is to share information and participate in meetings of the International EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON programme (managed by NETMA) in several areas: new developments, operational experience, flight safety, in-service support, configuration management, and so on.
In the case of Oman, since there is not an agreed Association MOU, NETMA does not have any relationship with this export nation. With regard to supporting the EUROFIGHTER export campaigns, NETMA provides advice to nations and industry partners on programme impacts and potential mitigations, provides access to shared assets, coordinates the release of appropriate documentation, controls MOU support and contracting action, gives advice on accession planning for NATO member customers as well as association activities. Also, during early stages of each export prospect or campaign, NETMA, on behalf of NATO, represents the core programme nations as the governmental defence organisation, at least until a lead nation is agreed at ministerial level for the specific export campaign.
The questions were asked by Jürgen Hensel and Ulrich Rapreger
por Orel el Mié Mar 21, 2018 10:16 pm
Nos llevamos la primera oleada de contenedores de material del #Ala11 para el #DestacamentoVilkas @NATO #Lituania, hacia los puertos de #Vigo y #Algeciras #2EADA
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por champi el Vie Mar 23, 2018 4:05 pm
por Orel el Vie Mar 23, 2018 4:19 pm
Otra unidad entregada a Omán:
por champi el Vie Mar 23, 2018 4:26 pm
por champi el Sab Mar 24, 2018 8:46 am
By Joshua Nevett / Published 22nd March 2018
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A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Daily Star Online: "The RAF Typhoon encountered a minor environmental control issue. The aircraft returned to the base safely."
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por Orel el Sab Mar 24, 2018 9:18 am
Roger Cruickshank cuenta una de sus misiones sobre Iraq:
por champi el Sab Mar 24, 2018 9:20 pm
Jon Lake
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But many seasoned program insiders found this claim puzzling, not least since Eurofighter GmbH once offered to upgrade a number of Austrian Tranche 1 aircraft to Tranche 2 standard at the company’s own expense— an indication that such an upgrade would not be prohibitively expensive.
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Eurofighter says it is working with the partner nations to finalize a Phase 4 Enhancement (P4E) plan as well as scoping a follow-on P5E. ‘We are looking at P4E and we have the requirements from the partner nations,’ says Rafael Klaschka of Eurofighter GmbH. While Klaschka remains tight-lipped on specifics, a number of capabilities would seem an obvious fit here — the E-Scan radar, Striker II digital day/night helmet, conformal fuel tanks, MBDA’s SPEAR 3 glide weapon, the new Litening V laser designator pod, satellite communications and the dual-carriage common weapons launcher.
Klaschka says, ‘We are also into the study phase for the long-term evolution [LTE] initiative [beyond P5E].’ LTE is focused on some significant new ‘kit’ for the Typhoon: the potential for a new cockpit layout and enhanced avionics structure. ‘The central idea is not to make a big-bang change; rather [to] introduce changes that will facilitate ongoing refreshes quickly and affordably,’ says Rob Wells, Eurofighter weapon system manager. ‘We know that the threats — aircraft, surface-to-air missiles and other types of weapons systems that are coming into play — are all evolving. We need to be able to counter [them]. So we will have to evolve too, and we will firstly have to be able to do it quickly, and secondly, as you’re not actually sure exactly what’s around the corner, we have to plan for the un-plannable.
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por Orel el Sab Mar 24, 2018 9:50 pm
El número de abril de Combat Aircraft tiene un especial sobre el Eurofighter de 24 páginas:
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