Eurofighter GmbH and the NATO Eurofighter 2000 and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA) have signed a new agreement to continue the existing C#3 Material Availability Service Contract for a further 65 months. The deal represents a second service phase and runs from August 1st 2021 to December 31st 2026. The agreement, …
Read More »Airbus signs contract for integration of 115 new Eurofighter ESCAN radars
Airbus has been awarded a contract for the development, supply and integration of 115 Eurofighter ESCAN Radars for the German and Spanish Eurofighter fleet. It marks the so far largest order for the world’s most modern electronica lly scanned array radar, Captor-E. The contract signature followed the approval by both …
Read More »Airbus to upgrade training capabilities of German Eurofighter pilots
Airbus, acting as the main contractor within the industrial Pilot Synthetic Training System (PSTS) consortium, has been awarded two contracts to extend the Eurofighter PSTS at the Main Operating Base (MOB) in Laage and introduce state-of-the-art simulator cockpits at all Eurofighter MOBs in Germany. The first contract includes the upgrade of existing …
Read More »Successful flight trials completed ahead of Brimstone weapon firing on Eurofighter Typhoon jet
A UK Eurofighter Typhoon has successfully completed an initial series of flight trials with the Air-to-Surface MBDA Brimstone precision strike missile ahead of firing trials as part of a programme of work to integrate the weapon on to the aircraft. The tests were conducted using UK Typhoon Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA) 6 …
Read More »MBDA’S BRIMSTONE ENHANCEMENTS COMPLETE FINAL OPERATIONAL EVALUATION TRIALS
The Brimstone air-to-surface missile developed by MBDA has successfully undertaken challenging operational evaluation trials by the Royal Air Force (RAF) that confirm the performance of the missile’s latest technical enhancements. This was achieved during February 2016 at China Lake in the USA as the culmination of a programme to advance …
Read More »Finmeccanica signs a contract to supply 28 Eurofighter Typhoon to Kuwait
Rome, 05 April 2016 – The Kuwait Ministry of Defence and Finmeccanica, which leads commercial activities in Kuwait on behalf of the Eurofighter consortium, today signed a contract for the supply of 28 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, to be produced in Italy. The contract, part of an intergovernmental agreement between the …
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