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Which aircraft have you flown DACT against and which was the most challenging?
“I have flown DACT against most aircraft of IAF’s inventory and against the Eurofighter Typhoon. I would say fighting a Typhoon was very challenging. It was October 2010, when Eurofigher Typhoons visited Kalaikunda Air Base as part of Exercise Indradhanush.
I was commanding a MiG-21 unit there, when Group Captain John Hitchcock Station Commander of RAF Coningsby, the team leader of the Indradhanush exercise was detailed to fly with me in MiG-21 trainer. My wingman was a young British pilot flying a Typhoon. It was a mission where the Typhoon was to going demonstrate its capability and we were supposed to observe.
Typhoon did everything it should – extremely well – like picking us up on its air-to-air radar and locking onto us and joining up with us using onboard avionics etc. All these were perfect until it came to low-speed manoeuvring. That is when, modern aircraft with all its safety systems onboard do not let you do things which only a manually flown fighter can do. In the low-speed regime Typhoon whizzed past in front of us like an arrow… and I wasn’t even manoeuvring.
That’s when he probably realised the true meaning of man-machine combo. We repeated this in straight and level flight — and in a turning fight where below a certain speed a modern fighter just slides ahead of a MiG-21… unless he turns away and comes back around to finish you off. For him to execute this he needs to have sufficient information and situational awareness. After landing, Group Captain John Hitchcock presented me with his first ever Typhoon badge and called me ‘A hell of a pilot’.”
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El Meteor es un misil aire aire de medio/largo alcance fabricado por un consorcio internacional liderado por MBDA y en el que participan también Indra y Navantia entre otras empresas. El Ejército del Aire tiene previsto finalizar la integración de este misil en sus Eurofighter a finales de este año, integración que también está prevista en los cazas Rafale, Gripen y F-35.
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CO JG74 notes that 90hrs of 100 annual flying hrs per pilot are 'high quality' training - 1vs1, BFM, complex exercises. #avgeek #AirbusTMB
On the F-35-Typhoon dogfight at Neuberg, was a four-on-four engagement in 90 second neutral & offensive manoeuvres, says Lt Col Jacob, callsign X-Ray. “Involved a lot of painful G, and we didn’t gun them every time, but we were on top. They wanted to validate stuff.” #AirbusTMB
Parece que es un último intento de Eurofighter por llevarse la compra de sustitución del Tornado.alejandro_ escribió:Me llama la atención el proyecto Quadriga - 38 EF-2000 para sustituir los Tranche 1 ¿Van aparte de los potenciales 85 para sustituir el Tornado? Si se firma el contrato Alemania. Además, la Luftwaffe dispone de 33 Tranche 1; la cifra extra (5) podría ser para compensar las pérdidas, pero han sido de sólo 2 unidades.
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