PROGRAMME NEWS & FEATURES 3/2010 AESA RADAR LAUNCHED NEW HELMET IN SERVICE TYPHOON: THE ARCTIC FIGHTER Leader of Forces Typhoon: Operational with six air forces, the aircraft offers total multi role dominance. Eurofighter Typhoon delivers unparalleled fleet effectiveness. Designed with an established technology insertion programme - from AESA radar and innovative latest generation helmet mounted symbology system to advanced air-to-air and air-to-ground weapon systems - the Typhoon is able to counter effectively all TOTAL FORCE ! current and evolving threats and will continue at the forefront of combat aircraft for future decades. EUROFIGHTER REACHES THE REALMS OF F-22 www.eurofighter.com nothing comes close 3/2010 EUROFIGHTER WORLD EDITORIAL 3/2010 EUROFIGHTER WORLD 3 CONTENTS 08 Enzo Casolini CEO Eurofighter GmbH TYPHOON VS RAPTOR Welcome to another ment of a latest generation Active Electronically 03 EDITORIAL FROM ENZO CASOLINI, CEO EUROFIGHTER GMBH edition of the Scanned Array (AESA) radar during Farnborough. Eurofighter World The programme is working towards a 2015 04 EUROFIGHTER NEWS magazine, our third of in-service release date and will build on the 2010. The magazine exceptional capabilities of our current 08 EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON REACHES THE REALMS OF F-22 RAPTOR has been a real Mechanically Scanned (M-Scan) radar. success since its 14 THE LATEST GENERATION AESA RADAR BEGINS DEVELOPMENT launch at the start of this year and has not only included all the 14 14 A PILOT’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROSPECT OF latest Eurofighter news but has been making WIDE FIELD OF REGARD AESA RADAR the headlines too. Our ‘What is a 5th EUROFIGHTER AND Generation fighter?’ feature caused much EURORADAR TO DEVELOP 15 AESA TECHNOLOGY debate across aerospace and defence forums LATEST GENERATION prompting a presentation by the brains behind AESA RADAR 16 HELMET MAKES HEADLINES the article to a selection of trade media at Farnborough International Air Show in July. As 16 NAT MAKEPEACE - INTERVIEW you can see from the picture to the side, even the Indian Defence Minister Pallum Ragu 18 AVIO AND THE EJ200 FOR THE EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON took some time to read the magazine during a visit to our impressive pavilion and full scale 20 THE ARCTIC FIGHTER replica at Farnborough. The success of the magazine reflects the 23 SUPPLY CHAIN FOCUS success of the Eurofighter programme over Eurofighter World is published by the course of the year. We attended both ILA 23 INSIDE A EUROFIGHTER AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT Eurofighter GmbH, PR & Communications Berlin and Farnborough International in the Am Söldnermoos 17, 85399 Hallbergmoos Tel: +49 (0) 811-80 1587 summer months with a wide variety of expect- [email protected] ed and unexpected visitors showing an The Indian Defence Minister Pallum Ragu reads Editorial Team interest in the aircraft. We have achieved our magazine at Farnborough Air Show Marco Valerio Bonelli many significant milestones over the past few Kathryn Holm months, including the delivery of the 300th Martina Schmidmeir Axel Haeger-Carrion right Typhoon wing in Spain, two new Typhoon After these successes, it is important that I squadrons were introduced at RAF Leuchars mention the first fatal accident of a Eurofighter Photography Eurofighter GmbH, Eurofighter Partner Companies and Gioia del Colle, there has been a steady Typhoon which occurred at Morón Air Base in Geoffrey Lee, Planefocus EDITORIAL flow of aircraft deliveries to customers (over August. I speak not only for myself but on Italian Air Force German Air Force 236 at going to print) and we were able to behalf of everyone working on the Eurofighter Berit Recklebe Title: announce exciting news for the programme. programme when I send our deepest sympa- Veronica Basty Eurofighter Typhoon fully loaded The hotly anticipated Helmet Mounted thies to the family and friends of the pilot that BAE Systems over Farnborough International 2010 Alvise Predieri Symbology System (HMSS) was introduced to lost his life. Eurofighter will continue to offer Lockheed Martin Photography: Eurofighter - Geoffrey Lee all four core nation Air Forces who began every support to the Spanish Ministry of taking delivery of the new equipment in July. Defence as the investigation continues into Design & Production To celebrate this fact, Eurofighter test pilot the crash. images.art.design. Werbeagentur GmbH Nat Makepeace flew the newly in-service www.iad-design.de helmet daily in his ‘fully loaded’ air display Please enjoy the magazine and here’s to a Printed by during Farnborough. Nat has provided very successful rest of 2010. ESTA Druck GmbH www.esta-druck.de Eurofighter World with an interview reviewing the performance of the HMSS in this edition. Enzo Casolini Eurofighter World on the Internet www.eurofighter.com Vitally, Eurofighter and its Partner Nations CEO Eurofighter GmbH Follow us on: announced the launch of full scale develop- If you would like to request additional copies of Eurofighter World, please contact the PR & Communications Department at Eurofighter GmbH [email protected] October 2010 4 3/2010 EUROFIGHTER WORLD EUROFIGHTER NEWS EUROFIGHTER NEWS 3/2010 EUROFIGHTER WORLD 5 A NEW ITALIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON EUROFIGHTER CELEBRATE THE 50TH The Eurofighter Typhoon stand at the PIESTANY NATIONAL AIR DAYS IN ANNIVERSARY OF THE FRECCE TRICOLORI show was one of the main pivots of the visi- SLOVAKIA - THE UNIQUE AIR SHOW IN THE Eurofighter Typhoon celebrated the tors at Rivolto. Placed centrally at the show, CENTRE OF EUROPE EQUIPPED WITH THE EUROFIGHTER 50th anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori at the stand was right next to the two static In May 2010 Eurofighter travelled into Rivolto airshow which took place on the displays of the Typhoon and therefore an the heartland of Europe to attend the fourth The X Gruppo of the Italian Air Force 11th - 12th of September in the Northeast- eye catcher. Piestany National Air Days, officially called has become the fourth Italian Squadron to ern Italian Air Force Base. Rivolto was not ‘Narodne Letecke Dni’ in Slovakian. This be equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon. only a massive event (around 500,000 visi- EUROFIGHTER AND JUNKERS LAUNCH A year saw Eurofighter Typhoon’s debut at the NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS The Squadron (X stands for 10 in Roman tors in 2 days), but also a successful one, as NEW WATCH show which is located 90 kilometres north numerals), is the lots of acrobatic national teams, such as Pa- Eurofighter joined forces with the fa- east from the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. heir of World War I trouille de France, Patrouille Suisse, Patrul- mous watch makers Junkers, who design Eurofighter GmbH proudly demonstrated ace Francesco la Águila, Biało-Czerwone Iskry, the Polish watches for elite pilots, to create a limited the power and agility of the Typhoon at this Baracca, from whom Air Forces aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, edition Eurofighter Typhoon watch. Junkers special air show which is surrounded by the they adopted the Krila Oluje (Wings of Storm) the Croatian is known for high tech, high performance, black "prancing Air Forces aerobatic team, the Breitling Jet affordability and excellent quality which are horse" emblem. Team, the Royal Jordanian Falcons and of characteristics associated closely with the Previously equipped Pilots from X Gruppo at the handover ceremony at Gioia del Colle course the Frecce Tricolori themselves, Eurofighter with F-16 fighters were on display. Typhoon. The and based at Tra- The symbolic new start of the “Prancing craft. Following the F-104 came the Tornado The Italian Air Force’s Eurofighter Ty- limited series of pani, in Sicily, the Horse”, took place during a ceremony in that in the recent past equipped both phoon from the "Reparto Sperimentale di the Eurofighter- Gruppo has now Gioia del Colle that saw a fly past of a mixed Squadrons with two versions of the attack Volo" of Pratica di Mare, was on flying dis- Junkers watch will moved to Gioia del formation of Eurofighter and F-16’s, marking variant, IDS and the air defense variant, play over both days of the event, just before be engraved with Colle, joining the the handover from ”Viper” to “Typhoon”. ADV. The X Gruppo Eurofighters will join the Frecce Tricolori and therefore almost the edition, the XII Gruppo of the The large air base of Gioia del Colle, the XII Gruppo’s jets in air policing and air everybody was on the side of the runaway Eurofighter 36th Stormo (Wing) situated on Italy’s heel, close to the town of defence missions, 24 hours-a-day, 7 days a to witness the impressive and much ac- Typhoon logo and which is already Bari, was used to host a Wing made up of week, including the role of protecting the claimed show. the Junkers symbol flying the European two Squadrons. In the '70s and '80s the air space over the skies of Albania. on the back of the fighter. 36th Stormo was equipped with F-104 air- encasement. The Italian Ambassador in Slovakia, Brunella Borzi Cornacchia and the Alenia test pilot Matteo Maurizio 300TH EUROFIGHTER WING A benefit to the Luftwaffe’s operations in the German detachment - It is better to be 6 SQUADRON TYPHOONS ARRIVE beautiful scenery of the old spa town, home MANUFACTURED IN SPAIN “Deci” was the large area of free air-space prepared for all potential scenarios". to the country’s historical aeronautical mu- Another keystone in the life of the that allowed supersonic flight and unlimit- Andrea Truppo, Chief of Operations from AT RAF LEUCHARS seum. Piestany boasts a proud history of largest European industrial collaborative ed manoeuvres to take place over the the 4th Stormo, said: “During the exercise aviation and this year’s show continued the programme was accomplished in July when Tyrrhenian Sea, which is within the vicinity we flew four Eurofighters, supporting the Slovak aviation legacy on the weekend of EADS Defence & Security's facilities in of Grosseto Air Base on the Tuscan coast.