Eurofighter World de noviembre: https://www.eurofighter.com/files/magaz ... 018-11.pdf
Champi, nada especialmente nuevo en ese número, ya pondré algo sobre el FCAS, pero ya que hablas de la Operación Shader en tu último mensaje, algo sobre el rendimiento de los Typhoon en ella:
Pilot: It offers excellent countermeasures and a lot of work goes on behind the scenes on these. It give me a great awareness of who is around, who is looking at me and who may be a threat. The helmet is another great strength. In the busy airspace we’re operating in, in the middle of the Euphrates, the ability to cue something with your helmet and take a closer look at it is huge. It allows me to safely fly my aircraft and manage a formation in a very busy piece of airspace. If I see something of interest on the ground -say an explosion or something happening- I can rapidly move the sensor to it in a matter of seconds and use the targeting pod to take a closer look. Typhoon already has a very high level of sensor fusion capabilities
NEAR PERFECT RECORD
Back on the base, despite the constant breeze from Limassol Bay, it’s hot and humid. For the engineers, the shade of the hangars reduces the intensity of the heat -but only a touch. The good news for them is the Eurofighter’s near-perfect maintenance record, which in the light of the heavy mission workload is incredible. The RAF is the second largest contributor to the campaign and its "attack assets" -Eurofighter included- are in constant daily use. “Up to this point we have carried out 299 sorties since our Squadron was stationed here a couple of months ago and we haven’t missed a single mission due to engineering issues, which is fantastic,” says one of the engineers. “At any one time we have five aircraft serviceable and one in the hangar for planned work. Our mission availability is running at 99 percent,” he adds.
Aparte:
With SPEAR3 each Eurofighter Typhoon will be capable of carrying up to 12 mini cruise missiles, compared to two standard cruise missiles currently, as well as a full air-to-air weapons suite [y tres depósitos, o dos y el pod ventral].
[El SPEAR3 tendrá menos de 2 m de largo, sólo 18 cm de diámetro y pesará menos de 100 Kg, pero tendrá unos 140 Km de alcance. Terminará su desarrollo en 2020 y será introducido a principios de esa década. Tiene guía múltiple siendo todotiempo y permitiendo atacar blancos de superficie rápidos y maniobrantes, tiene enlace de datos de doble vía y puede ser disparado desde baja altura, ascendiendo luego é.]
SPEAR3 forms part of a dynamic weapons set for the RAF. SPEAR 1 is Paveway [IV], SPEAR 2 is Brimstone, SPEAR 4 is Storm Shadow and SPEAR5 is another for the future -a cruise and anti-ship weapon.