IDEX 2011 에 등장한 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3

 

중동의 UAE 수도 Abu Dhabi 에서 20일부터 24일까지 개최되고 있는 IDEX 2011 (International Defense Exhibition

& Conference) 에서 Eurofighter 社가 공개한 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3 그래픽 이미지와 함께 Flight Global

기사 전문을 소개 합니다.

 

IDEX 는 격년제로 UAE 수도 Abu Dhabi 에서 개최되는 중동 지역 최대 규모의 방위산업 전시회이며, 올해는 10회

째 개최되고 있습니다.

 

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DATE : 24/02/11

SOURCE : Flight International

PICTURES : Eurofighter reveals Typhoon development options for Middle East

By Siva Govindasamy

 

 

The Eurofighter consortium is developing a roadmap for the Typhoon that it believes will offer potential customers in the Middle East options to greatly enhance the type's capabilities.

 

"The plan is to, over the next eight to 10 years, take a phased approach to enhancing the Typhoon's capability," says Rob Wells, Eurofighter's export future business manager. "It is the exports that are driving these enhancements."

 

Eurofighter unveiled the plans, which include optional conformal fuel tanks, at IDEX 2011. Other enhancements include the option of MBDA's Meteor beyond visual-range air-to-air missile from 2014 and an active electronically scanned array radar that potentially offers a wider field of regard from 2015.

 

New air-to-surface weapons would include anti-ship missiles, stand-off-range cruise missiles and long-range glide bombs. A thrust-vectoring nozzle is also being offered for the aircraft's Eurojet EJ200 turbofan engines.

 

Wells says the programme's Tranche 3-standard aircraft will already have the provision to accommodate conformal fuel tanks, and that the consortium is open to collaboration with local industry on many of the options.

 

"Countries like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain are looking at fighters, and we are willing to show them what their aerospace companies can do as well," he says.

 

 

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