by John Reed on June 28, 2011
2011 PARIS AIR SHOW — Here we have Italian air force pilot Lt. Grande Domenico explaining why he’s a fan of flying the Eurofighter Typhoon, one of the world’s most badass fighter jets. Enjoy.
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Maybe it could dogfight the F-35 while both are there.
What? Oh! Sorry. 2016 or so, then. Until then maybe the folks at Lockheed Martin can stuff PowerPoint printouts down the Typhoon's air intakes.
I think the Typhoon can turn circles around the F35- better hope that stealth is all its cracked up to be.
nop it has no thrust vectoring
No way a EF2000 can out ACM an F22. Those thrust vectoring engines give the F22 a big advantage. Try again Euros! :)
You are right because back in the 70's MBB TKF (German EFA config) was designed for post stall with thurst vectoring with IRIS-T and AMRAAM missle. See e.g. the post stall capable intake. The X-31 was the test German-US test bed for this MBB idea of integrated 3D thrust vectoring use. Unfortunately now the U.S. owns the patents. Thus the Spanish EFA vector nozzle was designed around this.
I seem to remember that's what everybody was saying before Vietnam.
Yeah- but the Sparrow had like 10% reliability. The AMRAAM is in the 90's.
The first bombers could barely scratch the paint on a battleship- Pearl Harbor still happened.
Vietnam was a consequence of trusting early missiles too soon. Even the Soviets continued to use guns while we went to the newfangled thingymabob first…kind of sounds familiar, even today.
From watching that show Dogfights- it looked like the Sparrow would only work about 30% of the time-maybe.
I know Vietnam is humid, etc- but I can't see how the Air Force sent pilots in harm's way with such a POS.
In terms of maneuverability EF should be placed after T-50, Su-35(BM), F-22, Rafale (in the order from best to worst)
Eniiter text right here!
i love it when people offer their opinion as fact. Fact the eurofighter typhoon is a great multi-role aircraft.
The f22 is the best for air to air and f35 for air to ground in the world and also my grandad was in the royal air force he said the typhoon haves lots of mechanic problames and they rant as good as they say they are(over exaggerate the typhoon)
I would prefer a spitfire over a typhoon.
Depends on the mission. Spits were good for dogfighting, and reportedly delightful planes to fly, but weren't as good a ground attack aircraft as the Typhoons were. The latter were quite a handlful to fly, but were much more rugged, as well as significantly faster, making it hard for enemy AA gunners to track them and shoot them down.
End of history lesson.
No way the Typhoon outmaneuvers the Raptor. The Raptors engines are far more powerfull, the surface is cleaner and the trust vectoring fills the little gap left.
but it's an awsome aircraft though
The typhoon is the new age technology that easily beats the f22 and the f35. It is a serious aircraft that is not over exaggerated because it can perform at such a high level. It is by far one of the best multi-role aircrafts.
I read somewhere that the Typhoon could outmaneuver a Raptor- maybe-
The Raptor's thrust vectoring has got to help the roll rate and I imagine it can do that J turn thingee.
The Raptor can also do the Falling Leaf- can the Typhoon? I know its an air show gimmick – but its still a metric to compare maneuverability.
Are you talking about the F/A-18 falling leave spin mode or just a tail slide ?
Either way FCS will not allow this: Auto Low Speed Recovery.