Eurofighter Typhoon | The story that the West does not want to tell 

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A modern fighter with over 600 samples - that’s a success no matter how you look at it.

Had an interesting conversation with a chap very much involved with the development program of the Typhoon. One of the major issues apparently they were having was welding the titanium. But the biggest problem was politicians from the various countries getting in the way.

It is an extraordinary aircraft. The real challenge is that for many nations the F16 is good enough and cheaper.

Just one ironic thing to point out though, the MiG-21 actually has a lower thrust-to-weight ratio than the F-4 and pretty much the same wing loading, but in a real battle, the MiG-21 is noticeably more maneuverable.

I love the shape of this Jet, especially when it's fully loaded. Looks like sleek soldier loaded with ton of supplies while going to war.

I can tell you that I'm American, but, BIG WOW, this plane is perfectly BEAUTIFULL. I love this plane!!!!!

The Euro Fight was and maybe (still is the most advanced aircraft i ever serviced) RAF engineer 20yrs :) the HUD was restricted (when was 1st design ) you blink twice and lite A whole town up

LOL! 2:31 this is the first time I heard the name, "First Cold War"... very appropriate;)

The eurofighter is a weapon. It's unique in many ways. I've seen the raf really punch this aircraft to its limits and it delivers. in war I doubt there will be many loses either. It sits up their with the f22 and f35. Simply gorgeous looking aircraft

There are some excellent comments on here - and some others, alas. OK I'm in the UK and UK-French rivalry is almost as old as the hills, so let's not bother with that. The question really is: which jet-fighters are best for European / UK / NATO defence? Having too many fragments matters but, on t'other hand, a variety is good as failings in one can be - to some extent - compensated for by other planes. For example, the RAF seldom flies just one type of fighter - even in WWII where fast, large-scale production (ie make one because it is the quickest method) was vital, the Spitfire and Hurricane both prevailed. The Euro-Fighter Typhoon is a Fourth-generation fighter (The Tornado was third; the F-35B Lightning II is fifth generation (who knows? perhaps the final fighter-generation with a human pilot?). Now, if I had my way, the RAF would still be operating Spitfires and Hurricanes and those would be better than all other fighters but time moves on and so must military aviation. So the Typhoon is excellent but the RAF is already giving-thought to its replacement in the front-line - not now but plans are being drawn-up. We must acknowledge that all the planes mentioned here (save the F-35B) are yesterday's planes but the Typhoon is as good as yesterday's planes can be. (I know there are more sophisticated arguments but they quickly become very technical). If the French wish to use another fighter, that is their right. I am sure they do want an excellent fighter, which keeps their Air Force well-equipped, too.

Before there was the EAP, there was the MBB TKA-90, the last Messerschmidt fighter - which appeared in 1975, years before the EAP. And it had two tails at first, as well as a mockup....

I'm glad this video has been re-voiced. The new information is also interesting. Congratulations.

If you could elaborate more on how the French Rafale affected sales or influenced Eurofighter design more and each other this video would be perfect.

Quite informative video on the EuroFighter Typhoon market penetration. Thank You & Stay Safe! 🌍🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇸

I just love how he said the first Cold War ended

When you make the best aircraft in the skies, you don't want to sell it to anyone else!

Not mentioned, for the reason for lack of export success was the time it took the 4 partner nations to make a decision on up grades was far too slow.

A couple of errors in that commentary first the aircraft always had a secondary ground attach role from inception was planned to be the Jaguar replacement after equipping the initial fighter Sqn's of the RAF. Several Stealth features of the aircraft built in at the original design missed off, Typhoon has a frontal radar cross section much lower than the general public think. but overall a very good commentary on general aircraft development in ther market place.

Late? Yes. And it's replacement will be also late. However, as far as I know, the users of the Typhoon are pretty happy with it, and its production continues.

I agree. The Euros also had a EF-2000 in the 80´s, the M4000....but France went alone with the Rafale.

I saw the Brit EAP at Farnborough back in the early 80s, it put on a REALLY impressive demonstration flight.

Today I recorded 3 Typhoons dancing around a troop or crew transport leaving Macdill in Florida. Flight radar showed the transport as a British military plane……showed it going to Las Vegas ( Typhoons didn’t show on radar). Such a beautiful sight seeing our British brothers enjoying a flight over the states. Flight radar said they were heading to Vegas so my guess is they were training at Nellis. American and British Military working and playing together! I sleep very good at night knowing these good guys are training together regularly. Western powers keeping the world safe.

I think that the Eurofighter Typhoon is a great aircraft and they are used by several countries who participate in the Red Flag exercises and have proven their worth to the nations using them. During the exercises tested there the aircraft was able to defeat many of the newer aircraft in service and will be used for a long time to come.

Hey another super interesting and informative video! I just joined and became a member. You provide information that I've never heard beore. Very indepth! Thanks again

Quite a few member countries of the F35 project also operate the Typhoon, but they're not replacing the Typhoon with the F35.

In Austria we call it the Teurofighter, a play on words as "teuer" is german for "expensive", which it is. Some have suggested to replace our Teurofighters with Aermacchi Masters, since they are much cheaper in both upkeep and maintanence.

i vividly remember, back when we called it the jäger 90... shortly after exchanging the f-104 ground nail against the panavia tornado

15:13 I wouldn't assume the Tempest is intended to replace the Typhoon so much as work alongside it. Consider the recent decision by the Pentagon to produce the F-15 Eagle 2 which is intended to be used in conjunction with the F-22 Raptor (or, more likely, F-35) as a missile carrying platform. 20 years from now, the Typhoon could be used similarly with the Tempest. 6th gen fighter programs, such as FCAS (or NGAD) are more about developing a capability platform rather than specific aircraft, consisting of a combination of both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles used in conjunction with land based assets.

Don’t think I’ve heard so much misinformation from one video before.

Can’t wait for TrueGrit and Heatlburs module of the Typhoon to come out for DCS

I remember talking to an airforce officer in 2003. He was send by the government to evaluate two planes to submit which is the panavia Tornado and F 16. He told he prefer F16 at that time due to its electronic warfare especially the radar technology in F16. Few years after that the airforce purchase F18

So apart from the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Austria, no one else uses Typhoon in Europe? 😅😅

Looks so powerful.and very manoeuvrable. 💪💪💪👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is without a doubt one of the best fighter jets flying with the Rafael, and F15 and only the F-35 and F22 ahead though both lack the strong weapons load capabilities. The F-35's go in first target and the Eurofighter firing Meteor from behind. It's thrust to weight ratio is immense coupled to super cruise and a now proper multi-role capability it will be just right in the current fighter mix we have..

Im probably majorly wrong. But iv always looked at it as the European F-16. always liked the canard design. this and the Rafale I believe are the superior 4th gen delta wing canard fighter designs.

The Euro Fighter also has to compete with Sweden's Gripen E, which has an impressive electronics suite.

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First combat aircraft I make with paper .. love this beast.

I gotta give props for the Beethoven Ode to Joy playing in the background! 👍

i just wanted to make a comment before i watched the video.. i remember playing the EF2000 flight sim and thinking.. wow what an awesome fighter.. its been one of my favorites ever since and i can't believe it wouldn't still be a valid multi-roll fighter for several years to come..still one of the best flight sims i think.. (grew up in the USAF)..okay, now to enjoy the video :D

Best 4.5 gen fighter jet in the sky's. It can do everything

I just love it cause it resembles the LAVI . a homegrown Israeli developed fighter project that was ..surprise surprise.. shut down due to political pressure .. from across the sea.( Sort of a blessing in disguise as it turned out ) Euro fighter seems to be a very agile jet. I wonder though how well it can fit to the necessary stealth any jet must bring to the modern era.

In fact the Typhoon is one of the five competitors to replace Finland's aging F-18 Hornets, I'm kind of rooting for it versus the other options

Now we need a story about Rafale

I love double delta wing configurations. But there is something about the eurofighter that just dont jive with me. The Rafale and the Gripen and even the Viggen just looks nicer to me. Altho looks is not everything of course.

What is the story that the West does not want to tell? Everything you said about the Eurofighter is common knowledge.

Cool looking as the Typhoon is, if I was a country looking to purchase warplanes I couldn't develop myself, I'd purchase some from a country that loves both aviation AND WAR. I'm sure you can guess I'm referring to the United Corporations of America.

I recall one test pilot who flew the typhoon who was far from happy about the canards creating a 'massive blindspot' for the pilot. It will be noted the Rafael has its canards set further back. Not being a pilot I am not sure if this is that important or not.

All Typhoons have Fibre Optic cable from Tr1 to Tr3!

I really like your channel and analysis.!!!

That's a really great video with very interesting analysis on political and economic pressures affecting the success of the Eurofighter - it would be interesting also to see what rationale pushed India towards the Rafale and not the Eurofighgter....

IMO Eurofighter's biggest mistake, ironically, is that it sold Typhoons to Saudi Arabia...arming a volatile, potentially hostile nation with one of the most advanced fighters in the world will spell trouble, granted they are older variants than the ones used by the RAF and German Air Force, but still.

The F35 was available for commercialization much later than the Eurofighter and most countries were only interested in the VSTOL or naval version of the F35 anyway until a few years ago because the price was abysmal, its costs per hour of flight absolutely crazy and there were serious doubts about its real performance and cost-effectiveness. The Eurofighter is inferior only to the F22 and on par with the Rafale. The reason why many countries opted for new gen F16s or Gripen is simply because they are cheaper and have lower maintenance costs than the Eurofighter.

If i can politely offer an alternative reason; Tiffy is second most expensive and F35 was not on the table at the time. The oil producers have limitless budgets, they don't care for budget planes. In fact, I'd wager they just liked the look of it, doesn't have to be complex reasons, they like Rolls Royce too.

and it is beautiful :)

i got kind of mad on the Mig and F4 thing because if anyone actually done any amount of research, the reason why there aware more F4s shoot down than Migs is due to the Vietnam pilots choose their fights, only choosing to attack when the F4 are low on fuel or when they are trying to get back to base after completing a mission

That’ll be ignoring the RAF, Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force then!

About the wins of the MiG-21 you should mention that a huge number of these shootdowns were agaisnt the F-105 "Thunderchief".

Thanks for this great video.

Excelente video 👍🏼! From España, I ❤️ EFA

A lot of nonsense and disinformation from the beginning. I'm not going to waste whole 16 minutes to this. To other viewers: be critical of what you see and listen. Makers of most videos like this tell you surprising things, because viewers find surprises entertaining (and honestly, most viewers come here to be entertained). The problem is that when the reality doesn't offer any surprises, they create them. That can happen by making things up, or by distorting facts. They both are a form of lying.

Man I like this back ground music.

Interesting to get the SMERSH viewpoint.

Greatest fighter of all time ! OK you keep it I’ll keep the F 14. F15 F35. F22. F117 and A10 you keep the fiat

The reality is, all the 4.5 generation planes are pretty much equal. The differences are down to the combination of sensors and EW systems fitted to a particular aircraft. 4.5 aircraft will leap frog each other in capability, depending on their point in their upgrade cycle. As for stealth, passive and low frequency radar haven't rendered such planes obsolete. Stealth planes have never been invisible to such systems. The problem is, LF and passive radar can't locate an aircraft accurately enough for a target lock. Whereas the stealth planes can see and target your fighters and SAM systems. There is a reason all the major powers are developing stealth planes. They would hardly do that if they had radar systems that rendered stealth useless.

The eurofighter has never had a dog fight, hense how good this platform is,

Excellent. Your channel is just excellent.

I used to watch the Eurofighter fly all around our area, back in it's 1980's testing days at Warton BAE. The excessively loud engine noise was a giveaway that it was nearby, i always remember it being much much louder than Tornados, Jaguars, Phantoms or anything else in the sky at the time

_Good video._ The F-35 is only slowly becoming available now, so I don't think it had any part in initial reduced Eurofighter sales. I think that was all the F-16 and F-18 beating the Eurofighter to the market. But from 2019 on, then the F-35 has had a strong effect on EU countries and Canada's choices. The F-35 has prevented Canada making a choice.

One of the few channels that edits videos. Or revoice in this case.

The way you phrased a lot of what you said was great, but I would reccomend checking those sources. The line "the radar can detect the F-35 from 40km away..." or smthn like that sounds ridiculous, lest the F35 be able to detect and destroy the eurofighter at 60.

IMHO the Typhoon is a good fighter in a bad time. Its competitors like Rafale, F-18, JAS-39 Gripen, F-35 are either cheaper, or offer better hardware like AESA and EODAS. Originally it was considered underpowered but the Tranch 3 engine upgrades were suppose to fix that and IIRC a AESA radar upgrade is coming.

Beautiful video! I suppose that you consider weapon's market free and open, as you would sell bycicles...

Europe needs to combine its aviation industries as they did Airbus to make military aircraft,include everyone from Casa to Saab and those more famous.

In my opinion the 6th generation multi-role fighter that will replace the Eurofighter and the Raptor should be the F 24 OWL (Coruja) a bird of prey very ancient that has the mediaeval reputation of been very wise and represent wisdom among Kings and Scouts.

Good video. But why the 'Ode to joy' in background!

Came expecting propaganda (like seemingly many of these channels) and trolls saying "durrrr". Was not disappointed. I was involved in this aircraft's development in the 1990s. This video is full of specific misapprehensions - especially that the Typhoon was designed to "intercept Warsaw Pact bombers" (wrong, it was always intended as a multi-role aircraft) - but also a very big one; that the Typhoon was intended as an export aircraft. That wasn't the case.

I'm confused. You say the Typhoon was not a successful seller in Europe. Could you put up comparative figures of all sales of the various similar planes offered by other European manufacturers? I'd be very interested to see these. As a second request could you put up similar figures of other manufacturers selling into the European markets? I have a suspicion that nobody outsells Typhoon sales. Also, hasn't there been a significant number of new orders for Typhoons recently, like Germany? If you would answer these questions, I'd be most grateful. Cheers

India considered Eurofighter and Rafale for her airforce but opted for theFrench aircraft because of the price. India has bought 36 Rafales and might buy more until their own fifth-generation fighter is ready for trials.

Kfir was my first airfix kit

What is the point of this video. Germany, UK, Spain, Italy and Austria use the Typhoon. That's five European countries. And you're trying to tell me the Typhoon isn't popular? The French needed, as you already said, a carrier-capable fighter, so they made their own EDIT: Since some people think the Eurofighter is a copy of the Rafale, heres some facts: In the 1970s, the French launched the Avion de Combat du Futur (ACF) program. The successor to the Mirage 3 and the F-1 was to be a Delta aircraft with fly-by-wire. The Mirage 2000 and the unsuccessful Mirage 4000 developed from the ACF program. The project was resumed in 1977 under the name Avion de Combat Tactique (ACT). Since Great Britain and Germany were doing research on a new hunter (AST 403 (GB) and TKF90 (GER)) at the same time, it was decided to merge the program into a European joint project. Dassault, MBB and BAe each submitted a draft. In 1983, BAe and MBB presented the first joint draft, Dassault did not agree and developed his own prototype based on the ACT. Even before the official agreement to develop a joint aircraft, France went its own way. Nevertheless, the development of a European Fighter Aircraft (EFA) was decided in 1983/84. France wanted a smaller, cheaper multi-role fighter with distinctive short take-off properties, better suited for missions by the relatively small French carriers, with strong ground attack capabilities and better export opportunities, while Germany and Great Britain had a high-performance and manoeuvrable fighter in mind: high acceleration at all altitudes, good supersonic maneuverability in the initial phase of the aerial battle, effective fire-and-forget air-to-air armament for medium distances, extreme maneuverability in dogfight and a good range for air surveillance missions and escorts. The ability to fight in curves should be achieved through high pitch rates and maintenance of flight stability even after a stall. Thrust vector control should give the machine the ability to adjust the line of sight to the target (very interesting because the lack of said thrust-vector-control ist the main critique point nowadays). Ground attack abilities were intended as a secondary ability only. France claimed system leadership and 50% work share. In August 1985 the negotiations finally failed, whereupon the then French Defense Minister Charles Hernu announced that France would withdraw from the EFA program and develop the ACX on its own for series production. The remaining four nations developed the EFA into the Eurofighter.

Very informative. :-)

A really well presented, informative video, well presented and fluid. Great job.

I think the Eurofighter would be the perfect answer to Canada's needs, to bad it won't happen.

You better check out your material, the aircraft you saw being revealed is British only called the Tempest, it has a Swedish influence and an Italian Bakır who wishes to addTo the dimensions of the Italian air force, but so far Britain is the lead project

It’s no surprise why it hasn’t been bought in huge numbers, it’s a very expensive aircraft but most importantly the Genesis of it was not to make money. It was for an aircraft fit to face off whatever the the then Soviet Union had.

In case you hadn't noticed we are back in the cold war. The Euro fighter tech heading for the next level, Just as the Harrier did!!..

Hopefully we are gonna get this beast pretty soon. Greetings from Bangladesh

Well...the French were always going to buy their own-and that's surely the best multi-role type, Gripen was probably the most successful, but is the cheapest (and is certainly no slouch-I mean, it's probably the weakest of the bunch, but is half a class above an F-16-and that's what a lot of Western nations chose), with the Typhoon being the undisputed champion of air-superiority. But look at the competition. They built hundreds of Typhoons-I don't know exactly how many, but surely a success. And the countrys that bought them, would all feel good about that. Hardly money wasted.

I see a lot of people arguing about whether the modern version of the F-16 is on the same level as Eurofighter or not. By tell me, guys, what about Rafale vs. Eurofighter? Are they pretty much equal, or is one more advanced? And what about the newer version of the F-15 that America has announced it will buy? How does it compare?

How about in 2020's or 2030's market? Typhoon is still capable fighter so it can find customer who doesn't need expensive stealth F-35, just like upgraded 4.5+ gen F-15EX or F-18 E/F or Sukhoi Su-35. The Rafael and Griffin fighters are selling quite well recently to third world to replace aging fleet of F-4 and F-5's and old Mig's . I think that even if Europe get the new 6th-gen fighters, they will need affordable 4th gen fighter like Euro Typhoon for long time.

A little correction: When you say "a nightmare for military planner in Brussels".. well there never were any military planners in Brussels, apart from Belgian army ones that is, so you're fighting ghosts there. Thanks on the technical part of the video, well done for that, but the rest is pathetic propaganda.

Summary: Divide our Europeans "friends" ..the US. UK: Count on us my friend.

What needs Investigating is why it took so long to design a concept that had it's origins in the 1990s

The fixed canards of the Kfir, starting in its C2 version (i.e. Mk.2) are because its shorter (and wider, American) motor moved the c.o.g. forwards vs. the Mirage -3 (and -5).

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So what's the story the west doesn't want to tell????

Das Ding namens "Eurofighter" ist nicht das was damit versprochen wird. - Das hat sich inzwischen in der Schweiz "unter der Hand" herumgesprochen. Die Schweiz hat eine Evaluation durchgeführt und sich für den F35 entschieden.

The EFA program mirrors the mistakes made in the ATF program which led to the F-22 Raptor. Development was plagued by delays, so it took 20 years before the Eurofighter entered service in 2003. The original version (Tranche 1) was too specialized, being predominantly an air-to-air interceptor, with limited air-to-ground capability. This meant it was designed for a mission which was no longer relevant, following the collapse of the USSR. Meanwhile, the UK was increasingly involved in wars in the Middle-East, where a multi-role fighter was preferable. It took another 20 years to add air-to-ground capability and an AESA radar. As a result of these upgrades, it's now a formidable multi-role fighter, albeit an expensive one, but most potential export customers have already purchased something else!