Eurofighter Typhoon - Full Walkaround 

I am sure there is a conspiracy in that somewhere.

@@comsubpac me too i can just feel it

I noticed anyways keeps up tthe good work. I am really enjoying your great contents :D

Well it isn’t RU-vid fault this time XD

It's ok. Germans have had a lot of issues with that.

The RAF is neither using, nor even train the use of the Mauser. Shame really.

@@CidFafner Wrong, we have the mauser and have used it in syria for gound attack. So they must train atleast to use it.

@@jakehayes1998 Thanks for the update. My source was rather dated, if at all reliable.

@@CidFafner Takes a big man to admit he’s wrong. I respect it.

However it's main weapon is British the Meteor missile.

Nikhil Seenivas T K me too!

EF+Mudhen are gonna rule the skies

Hetznaz What? They are adding F-15E Strike Eagles? And if so, will it be a full fidelity version unlike the current FC-3 F-15C?

@@Acepilot1312 yep full fidelity strike eagle is in the works

Nikhil Seenivas T K damn man! That’s amazing! Can’t wait to fly those beasts, especially the EFT, it’s something unique from the rest of the aircrafts, would be nice if they could include Rafales also and a new Russian aircraft, whatever it is. :)

Nice and compact. It crazy how small they look next to F22s, F15 or Flankers. Lots of power. Good WS. Agile. Supercruise. Nice little jet.

@@realMaverickBuckley When the design was originally conceived in the late 1970s/early 1980s it were a pretty good; a decent half-step beyond the US teen series and the Soviet 4th generation airframes that were in service/under development at the time. Unfortunately, due to a variety of good and bad reasons, they ended up taking about a decade longer to develop than originally expected and that inevitably takes a lot of the shine off them. They should really have flown for the first time and entered service alongside their Swedish cousin, the JAS-39 Gripen.

@@Akm72 I dont think I'd agree with that; in terms of pure performance, the Eurofighter seems to clearly beat aircraft like the Gripen, the F15, or even the Rafale. Only the F22 comes really close to that speed, maneuvrability and flight ceiling. Avionics are also top notch, from what I understand, and way ahead of aircraft from the 70s and 80s. The only thing that really distracts from the aircraft is the lack of stealth; but its not like theres too much competition. The F22 production was cut short because of cost, teh russian stealth program failed, and theres a lot of questions about the performance of chinese stealth aircraft. And the F35 is unlikely to be an opponent, same as its hardly a fighter aircraft.

@@termitreter6545 I don't think we disagree really. By the time it entered service the avionics had been improved beyond what it would have had if it had entered service in the mid to late 1990s and it was always a more aerodynamically powerful aircraft than the Gripen and other earlier fighters. If it had entered service on the original schedule it would probably have been equipped with either a variant of the British Blue Vixen radar or the American AN/APG-73 and the EW kit would probably have been closer the systems used on the Harrier GR.5/7/9 series of aircraft. However that doesn't mean it wasn't later than it should have been and the knock-on effect of that lateness is that important updates such as AESA have been delayed by a decade as well.

@@Akm72 Delays to stuff like the AESA radar a real issue; same with the conformal fuel tanks, which also got delayed. Besides thats also just the cost; the Typhoon isnt quite F-22 levels, but its probably the most expensive jet after that. But I feel like the Typhoon doesnt really "suffer" from the delay, because everyone else seem to struggle with new jets anyway. I dont think it makes much of a difference if gets introduced 10 years later. Maybe we have just different views on how we rate jets, though.

You're proud of that one aren't you haha

Still is 😤

Dude it still is

cant have been the best if it was on the loosing side.

It never was the best fighter, even in its prime. Just look at kill ratios during the Battle of Britain. Sure there were other factors but if the bf-109 was so good, you wouldn't expect it to perform so poorly against its competitors.

:D -- Me !!

yes

Lets gooooo

Is the relative lack of stealth features a drawback? Many people in my own country think we should've bought the Tornado (and perhaps in the process shown England that we were serious about this Europe thing), but the first impressions and mock dogfights with the F-35 seem positive as far as I've heard. There's a claim that it can detect and attack almost everything before being detected itself... which sounds impressive but doesn't mean anything if they're knocked out on the ground -- as they probably would be, given how small my country is.

@@zJoriz even F-35s aren't so stealthy and leathle if they're knocked out on the ground.

Spartaner251 The official RCS of the F-35 is still classified. However it at least the no.2 of all stealth jets (well except the F-22 there aren’t any legit stealth jets anyway). In several Red Flag exercises there was again and again the comment of aggressor pilots, that they could not „see“ the F-35 coming. There was even recently an exercise for F-35 pilots which supposed to train how to react, when they are targeted by air defense systems. However they had to cancel that exercise, because the ground troops could just not locate the F-35‘s in combat “mode“ (unfortunately the article I read didnt gave any details of the respective air defense system)! Also Israel is using already the F-35 and basically “bully” the whole Middle East by flying over sovereign countries without anyone who could locate or intercept the F-35I. So - we can easily dismiss these anti-F-35 propaganda... I guess...

To anyone not getting the joke , this line was featured in the licensors list in Ace Combat 7 Skies Unknown

@@ArcturusOTE yeah, that was the only thing team aces needed to put into the game, so they could licence the euro fighter.

I would love to see that or the victor!

Yep. British terminology is reheat.

@@realMaverickBuckley 👍🙂

British Phaze shift pilot as a civilian i never see them

@@jumpman6908 saw 1 at an airshow

There is a great photo recently of a Luftwaffe and an RAF Typhoon flying side by side.

The gun on a jet aircraft is a last resort. You shouldn't need more than a few seconds. The helicopter is meant to stay on station and provide fire support to ground troops so it carries a lot of it.

Since it is only a prototype it is most likely a joke considering that the planes are build in Bavaria.

The main german production and development facilities of the Eurofighter as well as the flight test center of the Luftwaffe (where a lot of the test flights of this aircraft were carried out) are all located in Bavaria (in fact they are next to each other at Fliegerhorst Manching north of Munich).

Because most of the german parts of the Eurofighter are produced in bavaria. The fuselage and it's wiring are produced at the former Messerschmitt factories in Augsburg (bavaria) and the assambly line is located at Manching which is also in bavaria.

It saved the European military aviation industry, though, including the French one which built on a lot of the same research done jointly. Quite a bargain in the long run. Else we'd all be required to buy American from the Orange One and his successors for the forseeable future (Note: buying a few dozen SHs or F35B isnt a problem as long its just to complement and add additional capacities, be it for naval or nuclear strike purposes. Being 100% dependent on the US in this field would be, though). Neither the new FCAS program nor the UK/Italian equivalent would be possible without the EF. The per aircraft price would have also been a lot cheaper if the participating countries hadnt shlashed the number of planes initially ordered. But I feel reasonably sure that the future tranche 4 will come in at a very competitive price, now that the initial investments for the EF program are paid off.

@@positroll7870 And can't forget all the political turmoil particularly from the german side about trying to make it cheaper that caused so many delays that in the end cost a lot of money.

Posi Troll look- I have got a bit different opinion. The European a military aviation industry pretty much started from square one. That’s why the Typhoon was so expensive and had so many delays - we have to realize, that it has been about 20 years after F-16 and F-15 still the same theoretic generation. The same mistakes they are doing now again. It is quite important to continuously develop and progress defense ideas. Hence if you need to build a project, you have got just to put Typen puzzle pieces together. It is difficult enough to develop a reasonably good airframe. I believe that the French had the advantage as they produced already jets before and did (at least to a certain extend) future developments. And maybe the Europeans were benefitting from France more than the other way around (consider that the Mirages were delta fighters). And no- the Eurofighter at about $110M is still prohibited expensive s maybe they can “throw in” an AESA radar without price increase but that’s about it. The F-35 would be a really interesting interim solution. I am especially not a fan of orange POTUS but also pretty critical about all American foreign policies (...). But they throw money at problems and it shows promise. It’s not always the most efficient and most cost effective solution - but the F-35 now really shines. In a world which might have widespread advanced integrated air defense systems, the air becomes increasingly thin for traditional airmusters - especially at a price point of the EF2000.

@@Dominikmj I wouldnt say square one, but sure, they had to play catch up, and thats always expensive. I dont see the F35 point. The EF project was agreed to long before the F35 ever was an option. The first EF flew back in 94. The first X-35A in 2000, and it was a long way from there to the F35 we know today. Oh, and have you seen what Trump did re Turkeys part in the project? If Germany was in it today, chances are we'd get sanctioned on that front, too, not just airbases and gas pipelines ... And the FCAS has the potential to be way, way better than the F35. Makes more sense to keep improving the EF. Once the FCAS gets introduced, it will play the role for European airforces the F15/16/18 is now playing for the US...

@Bobby Brady So what? Neither were the muricans under the articles of confederation. Not everything has to be a country to be real. The founding members of the EC understood very well that in a world dominated by the US, the Soviets and for a while the British Empire, the could either hang together or go hang seperately. Replace Soviets with Russia and British Empire with China, and nothing much has changed. And Airbus sure is a European company.

Completely different roles.

@@comsubpac Thanks, that is what I suspected. BTW this is a superb channel.

@Bobby Brady the F35 is a fighter/bomber and the Eurofighter a interceptor.

@Bobby Brady the F35 is more a bomber though with very poor air to air capabilities while the Eurofighter was developed as a air superiority fighter and the capability to carry bombs was added later and never was the main purpose.

The empty airframe is probalbly weights somewhere between 6-7.5 tons. So compared to the price of a completed EF, 1-1.5 million € for prepreg carbon fibre raw material is really not much.

Can anyone do that ?

One advantage of the IRIS-T though is that it can shoot down other missiles, rockets and super small UAVs. Plus it has thrust vectoring and can easily engage targets directly behind its own aircraft.

Aphain It’s an excellent weapon, and certainly better than AIM-9X. ASRAAM is an altogether different approach to the problem and reflects the RAF’s tactics of engaging as soon as possible with the first shot. ASRAAM has also demonstrated over the shoulder shots in service.

Is the range of the ASRAAM really higher. I know it is just Wikipedia but it claims that the ASRAAM has a range of 15 kilometers while the range of the IRIS-T is stated with 25 km.

@@comsubpac For me (English version) it says 25 km for both but 50 km for ASRAAM in the actual text. And since the ASRAAM has basically similar weight but a larger rocket motor I expect its useful range is somewhere between 40 and 50 km. When detecting a target that is 50 km away I would use a longer-range missile like a Meteor anyway, regardless of my short-range missile, since a longer range missile will be much faster in the terminal phase at those distances.

The other thing is that it would be perfectly straightforward to produce an active radar guided version, since CAMM is exactly that, with the addition of a cold launch booster.

That must have been a hell of an hairy landing!

@@EuroScot2023 I have got no idea of how it ended up on the back of a lorry stopped in the outskirts of Llanelli.

Speed is not everything ppf

Developed parts of the world have access to calculators and conversion tables too.

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD What do you think is the best and most convenient alternative: 1. Using different units in different countries so people have to convert units. 2. Use the same units in all contries. ? Please be aware that 95 % of the world's population use the SI system, only 5 % use the Mickey Mouse system of measurement.

@@skunkjobb Please be aware that I was born in a metric country and I use feet/knots/nautical miles for aviation. If I can do it, any dummy can. No excuses.

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I know these units are standard in aviation. You didn't answer my question. It's not about what people can do.

@@skunkjobb Then if you know, you know. Personally, anyone who can't deal with conversions needs to stay the hell away from airplanes. So it's convenient.

They’re prototypes, they used to have one in IWM duxford

British Phaze shift pilot I apologize, are you saying for the use of the U.N.? Thank you for your reply.

It's a 26 year old development aircraft.

British Phaze shift pilot still have it don’t they? I’m going tomorrow and that’s one of the things I’m looking forward too.

With its high thrust to weight ratio and incredible climb rate (318m/s) the Typhoon is a great interceptor, its designed to get speed and altitude FAST.

I can hear the QRA in Germany take of every day and have seen them countless times. I really don't know what they are lacking. They take off within 5 minutes and can reach every point in the German air space within minutes.

Well the maint personell i talked too told me that in order to make it able for alarm start capability, the CPU's have to run constantly on UPS Systems. (Which is counting on the operation hours) Otherwise the startup takes too long for a reaction. If you loose 20 minutes or above with the startup procedure you won't make it up in the air. No problem if you have a few of them constantly in the air. (-> air superiority) Maybe the tranch of aircraft they got are lacking and this has been addressed in later ones.

@@nirfz but that is the case with every QRA plane in the world. Having the systems booted up, the engines pre heated and all systems checked is sort of the point. If they would have to do the entire start up procedure including pre flight checks they would easily use hours but that is normal with modern day fighters. We no longer have WW2 but even those planes took some time until ready.

​@@comsubpac From what the maint personell told me, that is not the case. There are still (current gen) aircraft that don't need the effort of having the system beeing booted all the time. (The old one they worked on was from the 60's and was way faster between alarm and take off than the EF even when the EF is already booted)

As a Brit I call it the Eurofighter Typhoon to avoid confusion with the real Hawker Typhoon. :D

LikeUnto Buddha An easy way to remember...port, left, red has fewer letters than starboard,right,green.

I only have a problem after the 3rd glass of port!

Yes, this is DA1(Development Aircraft) that did the very first flight of a typhoon on the 27th march 1994.

What pit?

Not everyone! The Austrian Air Force - 'Small but beautifully formed'! Like the country.

Why not?

@@comsubpac because there arent many spanish do 24, and i tough there was only one in the Madrid aviation museum

@@papanoma5710 I know that feeling. As a german you have to travel around the world to see the last Ju 88, Do 335, Ar 234, He 219, 190 D-9. Me 262 2-seater or Ju 87...

@Gar This. Keeping the Russians out of friendly airspace is the main mission. That allows NATO helis to shoot the crap out of any invading tank divisions (nowadays in the Baltics; Germany when the EF was originally planned). Then, once the number of Russian jets has been decimated somewhat, you can go help the F35 and Tornados with striking at S400s, airfields etc on Russian territory.

They yeet missiles well, and jam enemies yeeting missiles at them. It is the yeeter, one and only

Not really though. It is still mainly an interceptor that can also carry bombs.

@@comsubpac edited my first comment to be clearer.

That's not usual at all. Multiroles are as cheap as dedicated role aircraft and the savings of having less tyoes of aircraft in inventory are enormous. Plus modern multiroles are better at secondary roles than many dedicated aircraft.

it depends on the role and the situation. Also they all exist in several versions.

@@comsubpac I mean, overall which one is the best?

@@natureenthusiast660 They all have roles where they perform better then the others.

@@comsubpac anti ship capability, beyond visual range fight, radar, electronic warfare which one is best?

@@natureenthusiast660 1. Depends on the weapon and not really on the plane. 2. Depends also on the weapon but most likely the Eurofighter once the METEOR is available. 3. Depends on the version. The Tranche 4 Eurofighter should have an edge above the rest. 4. None of the above. That's why Germany is interested in the Growler.

Only some Brits!

Well we're all Europeans

Yeah, But not because of anti Europe bias, But because Typhoon is a much cooler name than Eurofighter, Lol...

The result of the Rafale isn't that bad

@@BequatRequat The Rafale is very good and has the big advantage of a carrier version. But the engine in the Rafale has about 20% less thrust than the EJ200 while only being 10% lighter. Overall the EJ200 is the superior though slightly larger engine.

@@LiamE69 PArt of that is due to the S-shaped air inlet of the Rafale. Which in turn is better for stealthyness. Its all about trade-offs ... Still a shame they didnt cooperate more. Couild have used the original EF for air superiority, and the rafalized EF for naval purposes and to replace the Tornado ...

@@LiamE69 the Rafale consumes less fuel than the typhoon also, and it seems the fuel consumption is significantly lower.

The rafale has excellent range though. The French simply had very different requirements so the did their own jet. I might even reluctantly say that after all it's a better design for European necessities than a pure air superiority fighter like the typhoon.

I've often wondered where/when the second i in aluminium got lost in the US spelling. After all, you 'colonials' spell all the other elements with the ium ending the same as we do in UK/Australia/Canada etc. Most of the other spelling differentials between AmerEnglish and BritEnglish are either retentions at your end of an older spelling or the use of a more systematic or logical spelling. Aluminium is a bit of an oddity though. I have to admit that aluminum does roll off the tongue rather nicely - might work better in poetry too! Do school kids ever get it 'wrong' and spell it 'our' way because it's an anomoly?

@@EuroScot2023 I am unaware if the school kids get corrected if they spell it "wrong" as I do not believe they are taught with the extra i. In truth I find aluminium to much more scientific sounding and indeed preferred. My great-grandfather was a Wilkinson from Edinburgh so perhaps that is why it sounds so sweetly in my ear. As an aside, even my spellchecker does not like aluminium..LOL

@@alviecrumpton5216 Lol. Setting your language to 'UK English' sorts that one out. Alumin(i)um apart, I find many US spellings more rational. They're often the common spellings from 2-300 years ago on both sides of the Atlantic before UK English became Hellenised and Latinised out of intellectual snobbery. The US stuck with more phonetic versions. It must make life a little easier for students of English as a second language.

He just made a mistake

RU-vid didn't, he did to correct a mistake

And not true.

@@comsubpac Total units produced (and to be produced) of Typhoon is about 600. That of F-35 is about 3,000. F-35 has a benefit of mass production. Another factor is developmental efficiency. Typhoon was developed by a joint consortium of multiple companies of different nationalities. F-35 was developed by a single company (Lockheed Martin), funded by multiple countries. Typhoon experienced a plethora of developmental hiccups and setbacks due to inadequate cooperation among the involved countries and companies... so YES, it is cheaper.

@@batmandeltaforce the thing is you can't compare the numbers since they are calculated differently. The price of the Eurofighter includes weapons, maintenance and training for example and at least airbus claims that is isn't actually more expensive. Besides, you can't compare the planes anyway since the fulfil completely different roles. Additionally, the Eurofighter is developed and produced in Europe by companies paying taxes to european countries. Most of the money spend comes actually back to the state while money spend for an american design ends up in the US, That makes the numbers even less comparable. Not to mention that the US are no longer considered a reliable partner. So ultimately the Eurofighter does come much cheaper then it looks.

@@comsubpac Point is, they would have had a better, cheaper jet if they had bought the F-35, but the Typhoon was a hobby project anyway.

@@batmandeltaforce no, they would have a slow, expensive, single engine, underarmed fighter bomber with a mediocre range. Instead they did get the best twin engine interceptor in the world (well, depending on the situation the F22 was better but nobody can buy the F22 and even the Tranche 3 Eurofighter has the superior electronics and will pull even further ahead with the Tranche 4). The F35 might be a suitable successor for the aging Tornado but even in that case Germany will most likely buy Eurofighters and F18 Growler and Super Hornets because we need a plane that is fast enough to keep up with with the Eurofighter, provide electronic warfare capabilities and can carry nukes. All that the F35 can't and after the Starfighter debacle the Luftwaffe insist on twin engine planes. The only thing the F35 has as an advantage is stealth but Hensoldt for example has proven that they can track the F35 without problems even using a passive radar and the Tranche 4 Eurofighter will also be able to detect stealth fighters. Many say the "age of stealth" is already over but without its stealth capabilities the F35 is only a big and slow target.

The French left mainly because the Typhhon didn't meet the requirements the French wanted.

The beauty and beast can't work together but after seeing Rafael iforgot this words

N W they left because it was too expensive for them, thats why they made the Rafale.

@@jixxeii3063 Ok, so you're telling me France withdrew from the Eurofighter project because it was too expensive ? France left a project shared by 4 other countries (then the investments pretty much cut by 5) to develop a whole new project from scratch, while having one of the biggest, if not the biggest, military budget of them all because it was too pricey? It doesn't make any sense.

N W thats correct. Im not lying buddy, read into it.

You’re defiantly a child

I now I am

Actually I'm a teenager

boeing 737 stop being a weirdo

Mialisus I knew something was off.

His English is excellent. I consider myself bilingual, but my Portuguese is nowhere near as good as his English.

the Heer und Marine didn't rename itself either.

William Jones what?

@@SteviePonder123 lol

To be fair: that's not a budget issue. Most of the fighters are super old (Tranche 1) and will finally be replaced. The biggest issue is that the Bundeswehr has swiched from a "we do 90% of repairs and maintenance ourselves" to a "we do basic maintenance and the rest is done by Airbus" concept. This was introduced by neoliberal parts of the government in the 2000s. The result is that the Bundeswehr has nearly no maintenance personnel left and that nearly all storage capacity for spare parts has been sold or used for other purposes because "we do it like the industry: Just-In-Time". Thankfully the current GI (head of army below defence minister) has already started a process to revert to the old system (because the Bundeswehr has prioritized defence against a symmetric enemy again after the annexation of Crimea).

That "4 planes operational" was always complete nonsense though. The Bildzeitung wasn't able to read basic statistics properly. In reality it did say 8 planes *combat ready* at any given time. The Bildzeitung being the Bildzeitung halved that number for reasons and then "forgot" to mention that those planes are the planes of the QRA. They are standing fueled, armed and ready at the runway 24/7. Of course you don't want to do that with all your planes. It is sad that people still fall for that nonsense. In reality even in 2018 around 45-50 % of the planes were operational. This has improved to around 70 % pre Corona which is actually a very good value considering that Germany has much higher safety requirements then most other countries. It has dropped to 60 % due to the pandemic preventing maintenance. Most of the "problems" are caused by the Tranche 1 planes but they will be phased out and sold soon anyway. The Bundeswehr wouldn't have the necessary personal even if they had not decided to move parts of the maintenance to the industry. The problem is that planes are so much more complex now and can't be maintained by NCOs but need highly specialised personal even the private industry is struggling to find. The Bundeswehr can't promote them all to high ranking officers and pay them enough to keep up with the industry.

@@comsubpac Yeah. In addition to these 8 national QRF (4 in the north, 4 in the south), we als had another 4 on 24/7 ready stand by in the Baltics, too, as part of a NATO mission that were conveniently forgotten. The drivel one can read on some "news" outlets is vomit inducing. And the internet perpetuates the nonsense. Do these people even pause to think for a moment? Reminds me of the morronic headlines that 75% of the new EF the Luftwaffe aquired in 2017 were so defective that they couldnt be used. What did I find when I looked into that claim? Well, first of all, the LW had only gotten 4 EFs that year. 1 was the last of the regular EFtranche 3. The other 3 were replacements for some aircraft lost in the last 2 decades. As EADS etc had just developed the new mainframe computer for the planned tranche 4, they asked the LW whether they wanted to try it out on these planes as testbeds, to iron out any problems. LW said sure, good idea. Great computers. Much faster than the old ones. Make the aircraft quite a bit deadlier. Only "problem": since the EF often fly in the same airspace as civilian liners, the new EFs with new onboard computers needed first to be certified by the civilian aviation authorities. That takes time. During that time, they can only fly in the confines of restricted military airspace (in peacetime, that is). So, in the official reports, they show up as non-operational, as you cant legally fly any operations with them. In sum, the LW got 4 great new aircraft from industry. And the headlines read "Shame! Disgrace! Only 1 out of 4 new EFs are operational!" You cant make that stuff up ...

P.S. Just as bad are the ridiculous claims that the Puma had to be certified that the fighting compartment had to be safe for pregnant women. Utter drivel. A stupid rumor started by an incompetent manager from Rheinmetall (or KMW?) who didnt properly read the fine print in the paperwork they were sent (the requirement applied to equipping staff offices in barracks, not APC's) and shot his mouth off. The officers in charge of the program immediately clarified the BS, but the damage was done and the internet meme born (and propagated by Russian trolls). P.P.S The German military budget went up from

@@comsubpac and ​Posi Troll Informative replies, thanks! The narrative of poor Luftwaffe and Bundeswehr readiness is one that gets repeated very often in US media, even by fairly reputable people like Tyler Rogoway. Good to see that it's not all doom and gloom.