issue 2 - 2008 eurofighter review

■ Eurofighter in Neuburg

■ First aircraft for Saudi Arabia flown

■ Project Foundation

■ 500 EJ200 delivered

p r o g r a m m e n e w s a n d f e a t u r e s

Eurofighter’s Air-to-Ground Weapons

Heavy Punch

Since 1 July 2008 Eurofighter Typhoons operating out of Zeltweg Air Base in Styria protect Austria’s air space from unwanted intruders

Eurofighter Typhoon of IX Stormo leaving the air base in Gioia del Colle after a deployment to the second Eurofighter base of the Italian Air Force

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As far as achieving programme landmarksis concerned, Tranche 2 Type Acceptanceand first deliveries of the next standard ofEurofighter Typhoon weapon systems weretwo of the top priorities for 2008. On 12 Sep-tember, the negotiations were concludedand Type Acceptance was formally agreedwith NETMA. Fast forward a few weeks and,with the arrival of the first two jets at RAFConingsby on 21 October, deliveries of whatwill amount to 323 units commence.

The two weapon systems to have landedat the Royal Air Force’s Main Operating Basefor Typhoon are the first of several Tranche2 Eurofighter Typhoons that are to be hand-ed over before the end of the year.

Attending a welcoming reception at RAFConingsby was Defence Equipment and Sup-port Minister, Quentin Davies, who labelledthe aircraft as “the cornerstone of the UK’sair defence capabilities”, while the Royal AirForce themselves commented that the weaponsystem was “delivered on time and to cost.”

The Tranche 2 production run also has animpact on the consortium’s second exportcustomer. Under the terms of the Project

Salam contract for the supply of EurofighterTyphoon jets to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,the first aircraft is due in-country by mid-2009.

The Tranche 2 weapon systems will hosta suite of new computers offering more pro-cessing power (speed and memory capacity),which will be the enabler for future capabil-ity insertion. The Phase One Enhancements(P1E) programme, agreed in March 2007,will be the first such capability growth pack-age that all Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoonswill receive. P1E covers: new software; anenhanced multi-role Man-Machine Interface(MMI); “full” Laser Designator Pod (LDP) in-tegration; enhancements to the MIDS, GPS,DASS and communications systems; and theintegration of the advanced Paveway IV andEGBU-16 air-to-surface weapons.

The delivery programme for Tranche 2 isscheduled to run until 2012.

Dear Friends of Eurofighter Typhoon,

The last year has seen a lot of Eurofighterhighlights. And as the character of the pro-gramme keeps changing, the customer air forcesdeliver the news while they take more and moreaircraft into operation. Eurofighter Typhoonis safeguarding the air space in five nationssince last Summer. After Italy and the UnitedKingdom, Germany, Austria and Spain havefollowed placing aircraft in high readiness forQuick Reaction Alert duties. The Royal AirForce even has declared the system “Multi-Rolecapable and deployable” after a very successfuldetachment to the United States.

The contacts between the ten Eurofighterunits are increasing, and the aircraft is partof more international air exercises, one of therecent examples being Anatolian Eagle withItalian aircraft flying in Turkey.

In Summer the total fleet of air forces andtest aircraft operated by industry had surpassedthe 50,000 flying hour mark. Now the airforces’ fleet alone has accumulated the samenumber of flying hours.

Our flight test centres keep being busy atthe same time with flight evaluation forPhase 1 Enhancement fully underway and in-flight refueling tests in Italy with the C-130and in Germany with the Airbus MRTT con-cluded.

Earlier this year the industrial consortiumin close dialogue with NETMA has initiatedProject Foundation for new processes in devel-opment to adapt efficiently to upcoming op-erational requirements. And results are on thedesk, to the benefit of the programme.

So 2008 was good for Eurofighter thanks tothe efforts of thousands involved in the na-tions, dedicated to deliver quality to the customer.Thanks to all of you and all the best for thenew year 2009.

Enjoy the issue.

Aloysius RauenChief Executive Officer, Eurofighter GmbH

Aloysius RauenCEO Eurofighter GmbH

Tranche 2: Accepted. Delivered.

Delivery continuity assured

03 EditorialWelcome note from Aloysius Rauen, Chief Executive Officer

04 NewsAustria’s National Day with Eurofighter +++ Typhoon on wheels +++ Remember, remember… +++ Italian Eurofighters visit Germany +++ Typhoon defence

06 Eurofighter in NeuburgEurofighter Press Tour 2008

08 National Partner and LeaderEADS Military Air Systems Role in Eurofighter

09 Radar and Avionics PartnerEADS Defence Electronics contributes to Eurofighter

11 Soon to be six First aircraft for Saudi Arabia flies in Warton

12 More Capabilities!Flight Test Achievements

14 Project FoundationChanging the way we undertake Development Business

15 Managing the ProgrammePresenting the New COO

16 Global exhibitEurofighter Typhoon at home and abroad

18 Heavy PunchEurofighter’s Air-to-Ground Weapons

21 Eurofighter Typhoon over Switzerland

22 Eurojet —further on the route to success…

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Cover picture shows two No 3 (F)Squadron Typhoons over theNevada desert on Exercise GreenFlag

Photography: Geoffrey Lee

Minister QuentinDavies welcomed thenew aircraft as the“cornerstone of theUK’s air defencecapabilities”

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Sensational 700,000 visitors took the oppor-tunity to see what their Armed Forces con-tribute to the Nation’s security and safety on26 October in Vienna. The day remembersthe Neutrality Act was passed by the Austri-an parliament after the occupation troopshad withdrawn on 26 October 1955.

A Eurofighter Full Scale Replica attractedenormous crowds. People queued for morethan 90 minutes to sit in the cockpit for sec-onds. Major Michale Kirchner and Vizeleut-nant Markus Fuetsch of the SurveillanceWing stationed in Zeltweg, Styria, briefed thecrowds on the aircraft’s capabilities. Bothfly Eurofighter Typhoon since early 2008. AndVizeleutnant Peter Seewald of the EurofighterTechnik Fliegerwerft 2, also based at Zeltweg,never got tired to answer the question of in-terested visitors on the engine EJ200.

More and more exchange visits between theinternational Eurofighter units are getting tobe “daily business”. In August two aircraftfrom 4 Stormo, based in Grosseto, Toscany, flewinto Rostock/Laage, home of German FighterWing 73 “Steinhoff”. Major Ivan Laudizi andCaptain Andrea Braga staid for two days tofly together and to exchange first hand expe-rience and information.

4 Stormo, commanded by Colonel AchilleCazzaniga, has an air defence task since2005 and also trains future Eurofighter pilotsof the Italian Air Force.

It was announced in October that the RoyalAir Force is to deploy six Eurofighter Typhoonaircraft from RAF Coningsby to Keflavik AirBase for a couple of weeks as part of an al-lied rotation of fighter units.

The United Kingdom’s Typhoon Force is currently declared to

NATO and will undertake the deployment in support

is the EJ200 engine, normally used to power Eurofighter Typhoon. Lord Drayson’s previ-ous involvement with the British Ministry ofDefence was influential in the project teamloaning the jet engine which, although beyondcombat use and retired from the flight devel-opment programme, still has enough life foran attempt on the world land speed record.

The Bloodhound SSC vehicle is scheduledto be completed in 2009 with 1,000mph at-tempt planned for 2011.

The stated intention of United Kingdom Sci-ence Minister, Lord Drayson, was to createenough of a buzz around a technology-basedworld record that it would inspire school-children into following a science-based careerand forming the future generation of British engineers.

The Bloodhound SSC project certainlymanaged to achieve the first part as news ofthe supersonic car and its ambitions to break1,000mph flashed around the world. A keyelement in the design of the Bloodhound SSC

EJ200-powered supercar

Typhoon on wheels

Austria’s National Day with Eurofighter

Italian Eurofighters visit Germany

RAF to bolster Icelandic QRA

Typhoon defence of the organisation’s agreement to meet Ice-land’s peacetime need for Quick ReactionAlert (QRA) cover. The mission will be for alimited period during December.

The deployment follows similar operationscarried out by the U.S. Air Force and theirFrench counterparts, both of whom intercepteda number of Russian Tupolov Tu-160 “Blackjack” bombers.

in London, the Chief of Staff Royal Air Force,Air Chief Marshall Sir Glenn Torpy, present-ed a memento to the Spanish Air Attaché inthe United Kingdom, Lieutenant Colonel Al-fonso Romero.

The International Aerospace SummerSchool will be on in 2009 again with teamsfrom eleven nations.

This summer a team from Leonardo Da VinciHigh School in Madrid, Spain, had won theEurofighter Typhoon Trophy at the 2008 In-ternational Aerospace Summer School.

When the winners of the 2008 UK SchoolAerospace Challenge were announced at theInstitution of Mechanical Engineers recently

Remember, remember…Lt Col AlfonsoRomero and AirChief Marshall

Sir Glenn Torpywith

WolfdietrichHoeveler, Vice

PresidentCommunication

of EurofighterGmbH (left), atthe Institutionof Mechanical

Engineers

Queueing for a glance intothe cockpit of the World‘sMost Advanced Multi-Role

Fighter Aircraft

The fastestcar of the

world to be —powered by

Eurofighter’sEJ200

Flew in from Grosseto:Major Laudizi (left) andCaptain Braga

German Air Force plans to keep two addition-al wings in operation with Panavia Tornado,for reconnaissance and electronic combat.

With increasing numbers of aircraft in op-eration the Air Force plans to expand theirtactical training. The pilots of JG74 are alreadyincreasingly using the Link 16 capabilitiesof the MIDS (Multifunction Information andDistribution System). And intensified weapontraining is also on the agenda for 2009. De-ployments to Decimomannu, Sardinia, andto the UK are planned.

Training at Rostock/Laage now includesthe first German pilots “fresh” from thetraining in the US. They started in August2008. Also pilots of the Austrian Armed Forcesreceive their Eurofighter training at JG73,and this will also include pilots, who are re-ceiving their basic jet training in Canada.

The ASTA simulators play an importantrole in the training process and allow a rela-tively low number of flying hours before a pilotgoes solo on Eurofighter Typhoon. The Ger-man Air Force plans to link their simulators,so pilots can train “over distance” with theircolleagues in other wings.

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Every year the Eurofighter Partner Companies undertake a Press Tour tohighlight the Eurofighter activities in one of the Partner Air Forces.In October 2008 more than 50journalists travelled to Neuburg to gather first hand information on the German Air Force plans with EurofighterTyphoon.

At Fighter Wing 74 in Neuburg North of Mu-nich Wing Commander Lieutenant ColonelAndreas Pfeiffer welcomed the group. Thewing is operational with Eurofighter Typhoonsince early this year. Crews of JG 74 protectSouthern Germany’s air space first togetherwith the F-4F Phantom II. After phasing outof the Phantom at Neuburg end of May, Eu-rofighter Typhoon is now in charge since 3 June 2008.

Ten aircraft served with the wing earlyAutumn, thus guaranteeing the QRA duties(Quick Reaction Alert). This calls for twoarmed aircraft plus 2 reserve in 15 minutereadiness. The weapons are currently IRIS-Tand the Mauser 27mm cannon. An external

Scramble! Fighter Wing 74 has two jets in constant Quick Reaction Alert readiness

fuel tank is carried on the centre fuselagestation to increase time on station.

The wing had received the first aircraft inJuly 2006 and has already acquired morethan 2000 flying hours with the type. “It is amuch more stable platform than we expect-ed,” said LtCol Pfeiffer in Neuburg. The wingachieves a availability rate better than 50 %.And thus is able to meet all the operationalrequirements for air policing. The whole fleetof the German Air Force has surpassed the10,000 flying hours mark late in autumnthis year.

Germany had agreed to divert five Eurofighter Typhoon from the production line to Austria.

These aircraft are now badly missed bythe two wings, JG73 “Steinhoff” and JG74.With deliveries of Tranche 2 underway thissituation will change soon and the wings inRostock/Laage and Neuburg will benefitfrom this. The wings’ final strength shall be35 aircraft each, when all Tranche 1 aircrafthad gone through the R2 retrofit for the FullOperational Capability of Block5 standard.

Also six aircraft already in operation withthe German Air Force will be replaced byadditional Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoons.So in total the German Air Force will onlytake delivery of 32 Tranche 1 aircraft, but willreceive 11 additional Tranche 2 aircraft.

Colonel Joachim Vergin, Chief of the Op-erations Branch in the German Air ForceCommand in Cologne, elaborated on his airforce’s plans with Eurofighter Typhoon.With Fighter Wing 73 in Rostock/Laage fo-cussing on training, JG74 is the first of fourwings that will operate Eurofighter Typhoon.Preparations are already under way to acceptfirst aircraft in Fighter Bomber Wing 31 “Boel-cke” in Nörvenich near Cologne end of nextyear. This wing will operate the aircraft inmultirole missions, with Eurofighter Typhoonreplacing Panavia Tornados. Two years laterthe “Richthofen” Fighter Wing 71 in Wittmundwill receive Eurofighter Typhoon and operatethe system in the air defence role. This willalso terminate operations with the F-4F Phan-tom in the German Air Force. 2013 FighterBomber Wing 33 in Büchel near Cochem/Moselwill be the fifth Eurofighter Typhoon wingof the German Air Force. This wing will alsooperate the aircraft in multi-role tasks. The

This year’s press tour attracted more than 55 journalists from eleven nations

Eurofighter Typhoon operated alongside the F-4FPhantom II until June 2008

Neuburg’s most prominentEurofighter pilot, CommandingOfficer Lieutenant Colonel AndreasPfeiffer

Eurofighter maintenancecrews look after their new

jets in a modern environment — constructed

to the purpose

Eurofighter Press Tour 2008

Eurofighter in Neuburg

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The German Air Force’s national industrialEurofighter partner is EADS Military AirSystems (MAS), a business unit of EADSDefence & Security. The Division integratesmost of the defence activities in the world’ssecond largest aerospace company, EADS.It has two other business units: Defence andCommunication Systems mainly based inFrance and Defence Electronics headquar-tered in Ulm. And it is taking the Germanshare in Europe’s top missile maker, MBDA.

In 2007 the Division generated a turnover of5.5 billion Euro, the share of Military AirSystems being 2.1 billion Euro. EADS Mili-tary Air Systems is a fully integrated inter-national unit with a workforce of approx.7,900, including approx. 1360 employees inGetafe, Spain. The business portfolio of EADSMAS is based on three pillars: Combat AirSystems, mainly Eurofighter Typhoon, Mis-sion Air Systems and Services. TheAerostructures business based in Augsburgat the former Messerschmitt facility hasbeen transformed into Premium AerotecGmbH, a unit that also includes former EADSsites Nordenham and Varel since 1 Septem-ber 2008.

Germany like the United Kingdom has a33 per cent share in the Eurofighter devel-opment. Consequently the work share in de-velopment for the German side of EADS MASis focussing on vital systems of the aircraft.EADS MAS therefore holds the System DesignResponsibility for Eurofighter Typhoon’sFlight Control System (FCS). Military Air Sys-tems has already been responsible for theFCS of the Panavia Tornado, and is a world

leader in this technology area with expertiseacquired with the German VTOL programmesVJ-101, VAK-191 and Dornier 31. The Germanengineers also developed the Flight ControlSystem of the only “X aircraft” the UnitedStates ever undertook in international coop-eration, the X-31. This unique test aircraftdemonstrated the advantages of extremeagility in post-stall maneuvers.

Besides leading the FCS team and based onthe agreed System Design Responsibilitiesengineers of MAS also developed the Attack/Identification Subsystem, had responsibilityfor minimizing Eurofighter’s Radar CrossSection, for the hydraulics, the landing gear,for integrating the gun and performing aMajor Airframe Fatigue Test. Also the DesignResponsibility for the centre fuselage sec-tion is with the German side of Military AirSystems.

EADS Military Air Systems Role in Eurofighter

National Partner and Leader

Final assembly — all aircraft for the German Air Force and forAustria come from Manching

The production work share of Germany is 30per cent and that equals the production of allcentre fuselages sections for all Euro-fightersunder contract, currently 707. They are built inAugsburg and Lemwerder with equipping per-formed in Manching. And all 180 aircraft for theGerman Air Force are assembled at their Manch-ing site.

Also based in Manching is the Aircrew Syn-thetic Training Aids (ASTA) programme man-agement of Eurofighter GmbH. The full missionsimulators and cockpit trainers for all nationsare produced there. And Manching will be themajor site of Military Air Systems including theheadquarters, after all departments from Otto-brunn will have transferred to the air base nearIngolstadt in the North of Munich by end of 2008.

In Eurofighter export the EADS unit hadsucceeded in acquiring the first internationalfor Eurofighter Typhoon outside the four nationpartnership with Austria signing up in 2003.Consequently the final assembly for the Austri-an aircraft takes place in Manching. Nine air-craft have so far been assembled and handedover to Eurofighter GmbH for delivery to Austria.And of course the German unit benefits from

the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s order by buildingthe centre fuselages and contributing to Inte-grated Logistic Support.

Based on the Eurofighter export philosophy,the German Partner Company is responsiblefor three major export campaigns: India, Switzer-land and Greece. The pre-campaigns in Bulgar-ia and Croatia also are led by EADS MAS.

All centre fuselage sections are being equipped in Manching

The centre fuselage section is the “heart of theaircraft” requiring kilometers of cable

Manching is also home of the Messerschmitt Flying Museum, the media obviously liked it

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EADS is a major industrial player in theEurofighter Typhoon programme. But besides Military Air Systems, the NationalPrime, the Defence Electronic businessunit of EADS Defence & Security also playsa key role in development and productionof key components for the system sincethe beginning of the programme.

Defence Electronics is a unit with sites inGermany, France, Belgium, the UK and theUSA. The unit has roughly 4,000 employeesand an annual turnover of approx. 1 bn Euro. It is headquartered in Ulm and struc-tured in four business lines: Electronic War-fare & Mobile Systems, Sensors & ProductSupport, Military Mission Avionics and Test &Services.

For Eurofighter Typhoon the unit devel-oped and produces subsystems of the Cap-tor radar and the Defensive Aids SubsystemPraetorian. In respect to mission avionicsDefence Electronics is responsible for theDigital Map Generator, the Armament ControlSystem, the Maintenance Data panel, IFFTransponder Interrogator, and several otheritems. Defence Electronics is partnered intwo consortia, Euroradar and EuroDASS.

Together with Galileo Avionics in Italy,Indra in Spain and Selex Sensors and Air-

borne Systems in the UK, the unit is produc-ing the CAPTOR radar, the primary sensor ofEurofighter with more than State-of-the-Artcapability. The EADS Defence Electronics teamis responsible for the Waveguide unit, andshares responsibility with Indra in the Anten-na/Scanner, the Processor and the Receiverwith Selex.

With all radar sets for Tranche 1 delivered,production of 236 radars for Tranche 2 plus15 originally contracted for Austria and 72 forthe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s aircraft. TheCAPTOR I-Band pulse Doppler/monopulseradar uses pulse compression and has a

EADS Defence Electronics contributes to Eurofighter

Radar and AvionicsPartner

Night and all weather operation require complex and stableavionics and sensors with substantial Defence Electronicsinvolvement

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The Government-to-Government Understand-ing Document between the Kingdom of SaudiArabia and the United Kingdom regardingthe modernisation of the Saudi Armed Forceshas, since its December 2005 signature,generated an enormous amount of interestand publicity. The agreement to export 72Eurofighter Typhoon weapon systems to theMiddle Eastern nation represented a power

shift in the fighter aircraft market, installingEurofighter Typhoon as the market leaderand confirming the type as the only crediblealternative to U.S. products.

With the first aircraft for Saudi Arabiadue for delivery in 2009, the clock has beenticking. On 20 October, tangible evidence ofthe behind-the-scenes effort was on displayas Eurofighter Typhoon ZK060, completed

First aircraft for Saudi Arabia flies in Warton

Soon to be six

with two-tone grey Saudi livery, poweredover the runway at BAE Systems’ Wartonbase and lifted off for its maiden flight.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are, afterAustria, the second export customer for Eurofighter Typhoon, with this milestoneflight marking the start of an initial flighttest programme for the Saudi aircraftahead of deliveries next year.

BAE Systems is the prime contractor forall Eurofighter Typhoon-related issues inthe Kingdom. The contractual documentationcovering the Eurofighter consortium’s involve-ment in the supply of aircraft was signed in December 2007. Directly linked to theSaudi acquisition is the progress beingmade on agreeing a partnered support ap-proach, with the British Eurofighter PartnerCompany offering significant levels of oppor-tunity for Saudi industry, specifically throughthe development of an engineering and manufacturing footprint and a Centre forArab Excellence.

Phillip Lee

Eurofighter Typhoon inthe livery of theKingdom’s Air Force,taxiing to take-off

tremendous target detection and trackingrange. Its software is fully programmable andoperation is automated. High reliability hasbeen demonstrated in service.

Defence Electronics has acquired experi-ence in airborne, ground based and spacebased active array antennas. With an ownproduction facility for T/R (Transmit/Receive)modules based in Ulm, the unit has a capacityto produce 100,000 modules per year. Thesemodules are the key component also for theCAPTOR Active Electronic Scanning AntennaRadar (CAESAR), the industrial consortium islooking into since some years. The high-light of the AESA activities clearly were theflights of the CAESAR demonstrator (= Cap-tor AESA Radar) on Development Aircraft DA5in Manching, Germany, last year. Four flightswere being conducted with very promisingresults, the first on 8 May.

EuroRadar is convinced that this newtechnology would further improve the oper-ational capabilities of the radar, but evenmore so increase reliability by benefiting fromhigh Mean-time between Failure rates through“not moving” parts and low voltage. Thiswould finally lead to reduced life cycle costsand higher mission availability. The projectis in prototype stadium and if customers areready to sign up for this technology, the radarconsortium could have the new radar readycomplying with the Eurofighter schedule.

The Active Electronic Scanning Antennaalready flew on Eurofighter Typhoon in2007 with very promising results

The CAPTOR Radar isthe main sensor forEurofighter Typhoon.Defence Electronicsbuilds the waveguideunit and contributes to the antenna/scanner,the receiver and theprocessor.

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Flight Test Achievements

More Capabilities!

In the same week that the first Tranche 2 air-craft to be delivered to a customer Air Forcetouched down at RAF Coningsby, the flight testprogramme for the enhancing capabilitiesthat will be inserted onto the same aircraft in2011 got underway.

On the morning of 24 October, Instrument-ed Production Aircraft Two (IPA2) lifted offfrom Alenia Aeronautica’s Caselle plant nearTurin carrying the advanced Paveway IVair-to-surface weapon. The first phase aero-mechanical integration tests with the new500lb precision-guided store focussed on flut-ter and vibration investigations and wererun by Alenia.

The programme will then be expandedacross the consortium as P1E weapons trialswith IPA1 at BAE Systems (in the UnitedKingdom) and IPA4 at EADS CASA (in Spain)get underway. This flight test phase will alsoinclude the 1000lb dual mode precision-guidedEGBU-16 bomb.

The data recorded in these initial trials willall the air vehicle aspects of the P1E capa-bility development to be progressed, to a pointat which IPA7 of EADS Germany will jointhe air vehicle trials next year to prove han-

dling qualities and carefree handling withthe Paveway IV weapon.

Elsewhere across the test and evaluationprogramme, IPA2 and IPA4 have been em-ployed in the further development of the Di-rect Voice Input (DVI) system. Service pilotsfrom across the nations have all been involvedas the development teams set about com-pleting the templates in the voice recognitionsoftware. To a degree, the work carried outup to now has been successful, but furtherdevelopment on the DVI system is requiredwith the recognition-based results offeringvariations across each national pilot. IPA2’swork, in particular, completed a phase oftesting combining the HEA helmet and DVIwith the mask.

Another first was achieved in October withthe successful in-flight refuelling with anAirbus A310 Multi Role Tanker Transport, op-erated by the German Air Force, as a com-bined effort of WTD 61, the Official Flight TestCenter of the German Defence ProcurementAgency (BWB), the German Air Force andMilitary Air Systems (MAS) of EADS Defence& Security in Manching. IPA3 and IPA7

were employed for this task with flights last-ing up to five hours. NETMA has been ex-tremely keen to have Eurofighter Typhooncleared for air-to-air refuelling on all exist-ing Tanker platforms to ensure full interop-erability during all allied operations any-where in the world. Certification for the A310Tanker is expected by the end of the yearwith a total of nine flights planned toachieve this.

And tankers again, in-flight refuelling testsof a twin-seat Eurofighter Typhoon with aKC-130J Hercules of the Italian Air Force inthe tanker version have been successfullycompleted in Decimomannu, Sardinia, earlyNovember. The aircraft, Italian IPA2, has ac-complished flight tests through 5 missions(including three in one day only), of whichone in a “clean” configuration, the others witha configuration with three external fuel tanks,

two under the wings and one on the centrestation under the fuselage. During thesetests, including a night one, the EurofighterTyphoon made eight “wet” contacts with the tanker, i.e. with actual fuel transfer by theC-130J. The Italian Air Force has started twoyears ago to convert up to eight C-130Js intoa tanker configuration.

Various software packages have been see-ing some flight time over the Summer andAutumn months. IPA2, IPA3 and IPA4 haveall completed their contributions on the so-called Service Release Package SRP4.3, whichis the final software release for the Block 8b standard covering multi-ship campaigns.Also, the 5.1 software, also known as theFinal Operational Capability software, hasmade its first flights on the IPAs, and it willform the basis for all Tranche 2 standardand beyond aircraft.

Finally, on 15 August, IPA3 was handedover to the German Procurement Agency(Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaf-fung, BWB), a branch of the Ministry of De-fence. Although the aircraft may return tothe flight test programme in future, it remains,for now, under national German control.

Phillip Lee

Flight tests for Phase 1 Enhancement started withPaveway IV trials in Italy

In a combined effort between German Air Force, OperationalTest Centre WTD 61 and EADS in-flight refuelling trials startedwith German Air Force Airbus A310 MRTT

IPA7 taking fuel from the A310 MRTT, the firsttanker aircraft in service with the German AirForce

Italian Air Force KC-130J Tanker refuellingEurofighter Typhoon. The trials were concludedwithin one week

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With the Main Development Work concluded,industry reshapes future development processesto better meet the requirements of the Air Forces

The Eurofighter programme is at a criticalpoint in its lifecycle. As the Main Develop-ment Contract comes to an end and the oper-ational fleets become larger and more mature,the industrial consortium behind euro fight-er Typhoon must have in place differentarrangements to support the ongoing devel-opment of capabilities, in line with what theCustomer community needs, and can afford,through the life of the fleet. There is a recog-nition across all parties that this can not beachieved through ‘more of the same’. The

facilities, processes and practises appropriatefor the initial development of the aircraftcannot be sustained by the budgets availablefor through life support, while the develop-ment timescales which may have been accept-able in the past are not acceptable to meetthe needs of the partner Air Forces. The con-sortium has been charged with finding waysto do more, more quickly, and using less re-source than was the case in the past. Industryand the Customer are both convinced thatimprovement is now urgent. IntroducingProject Foundation.

Project Foundation is a change programmeaddressing improvements to the way the industrial consortium undertakes developmentactivity. The focus is primarily, but not ex-clusively, on major weapon system capabilityimprovements, for example new weapons,sensor and communications enhancementsetc. The project team will seek to streamlineall aspects of the capability improvement

process, including how development is con-tracted and managed, the processes, atti-tudes and strategy therein, and ensuringthat the development itself carries the nec-essary preparations for fleet-wide embodi-ment / deployment and supportability.

The project was launched through a con-sortium definition phase in Spring thisyear, which presented recommendations tothe euro fighter Supervisory Board in June.Those recommendations were endorsed bythe Supervisory Board and Foundation was

set up as an Implementation Programme torun into Spring 2009. The recommendationswere also shared with NETMA who, in July,were authorised to work alongside Industryon the initiative. This level of strong sup-port underlines the recognition at these levelsthat we have to deliver improvements fromFoundation.

The Project primarily involves Industrypersonnel in the euro fighter Partner Com-panies and in euro fighter GmbH. In partic-ular, there is a core team established in eu-ro fighter GmbH and they work with per-sonnel from across the consortium and theJoint Teams through a series of task teamsaddressing particular aspects of the projectwork. In addition, NETMA have nominated ateam of people to work alongside Industryon the project and, increasingly, input andsupport will also be needed from the Na-tions. Some key suppliers will also need tobecome involved.

The Eurofighter Board of Management con-sists of the Chief Executive Officer andthree Chief Operating Officers. One of themis the COO Programmes overseeing theManagement of the existing contracts. Since1 September 2008 this position is held byTrevor King. A good reason to present himto a wider Eurofighter community.

Trevor joined BAE Systems in 1976 as anunder-graduate apprentice taking Aeronau-tical Engineering at Loughborough Univer-sity. After graduating, he worked in FutureProjects involved with Advanced Short TakeOff Combat Aircraft to replace the Harrierand Jaguar. In 1987 he moved in the Com-mercial Directorate working on prepara-tions and pricing for Al Yamamah 2, then inearly 1991, he was re-assigned as Head ofStrategy and Planning responsible for Mili-tary Aircraft Limited's Business Plan andthe merger team creating the Dynam-ics/Matra Joint Venture.

In 1991, Trevor transferred to Farnbor-ough to establish the Defence CompanyHeadquarters formulating overall DefenceBusiness Strategy & Planning, in particularworking on the planned future divestmentof Royal Ordnance. He came back to the Mil-itary Aircraft Division in 1993 as Head ofProject Harrier II (UK) working with Mc-Donnell Douglas (USA) delivering the newbuild Harrier T10, the establishment of 20ROCU Squadron at RAF Wittering and theupdate of Harrier GR7.

In 1995, Trevor was appointed Opera-tions Director, Eurofighter Integrated Logis-tics Support where he was responsible forco-ordinating, securing and negotiating theProcurement contracts with the Nations tosecure eleven Support contracts valued atover £1.5B over 10 years. In 2000 as In Ser-vice Support Director he led the UK team todeliver the full range of support to the RAF,culminating in 2003 with the success-ful Typhoon entry into service with the Roy-al Air Force under "Case White".

In early 2004, he was appointed to theposition of Programme Directorfor Typhoon, with responsibility within BAESystems for completing the development ofEurofighter, the BAE Systems share inbuilding 148 Tranche 1 production aircraft(55 UK delivered between 2004 and 2007),the BAE Systems contribution to develop-ment and build of the 236 new Tranche 2and 15 Austrian exports. In 2007, the roleextended to secure and launch the nextphase of Typhoon development (First BatchEnhancements) and build of 72 aircraft forSaudi Arabia. In 2007 sales were £900Mand workforce 2000. In August 2008 Trevorjoined Eurofighter GmbH in the post ofChief Operating Officer Programmes.

Trevor is married with a son and adaughter. In his spare time he plays golf,enjoys bird watching and listening to music.

What is in your pri-mary focus with thenew assignment?The main responsibili-ties in my current postare to manage thecontracted businessspanning the full lifecycle development,production and in ser-

vice for the Eurofighter consortium. To man-age the four subcontractors; Alenia, BAESys-tems, EADS D, EADS C deliver these obliga-tions. To lead the interface for this businesswith our customers NETMA, the Republic ofAustria and the BAESystems Prime ContractOffice for Salam.

Further I lead the responsibility at EF GmbHfor Project Management and plan, continu-ing the existing good work and further en-hance our capabilities in this key area. A major prerequisite to achieve I see the needto evolve the working environment where allour colleagues can contribute the most and atthe same time can live to their own expecta-tions.

So are you looking to achieve over the nextfew years?Top of my agenda is to further enhance ourrelations to the customer. The aim of thewhole consortium is to deliver to the expecta-tion of the customer and at the same time sat-isfy the demands of our shareholders.As our recurring business is peaking withproduction for Tranche 2 fully underway,maintaining the momentum of deliveries tothe customer including the first aircraft to theKingdom of Saudi Arabia are a primary ob-jective. Clearly an area of focus is contribut-ing to our mutual efforts that ensure cus-tomer can make best use of the weapon sys-tem in service.

Looking further into the future, the consor-tium will offer enhancements to the weaponsystem. A key objective is to maintain weaponsystem capability, supporting the Chief Oper-ating Officer Capabilities and the Chief Fi-nancial and Commercial Officer in this effort. And last but not least, it is in all of our inter-est to strengthen our position in the exportmarket, so supporting the sales activities ofthe consortium inside Eurofighter GmbH andwith the Partner Companies is certainly a ma-jor motivation.

Changing the way we undertake Development Business

Project Foundation

At this stage, the scope of the work is fo-cusing on the following areas:

• ‘Front End’ development processes includ-ing Requirement Capture / Definition /Initial Design, with supporting MaturityMeasurement / Management, Trade-offand Review processes;

• ‘Back End’ processes including System Test,problem investigation / fixing, Certificationand Qualification;

• Product Strategy / Product Architecture(primarily Avionics);

• Contracting and Management ofDevelopment;

• More effective ILS interlinkage (‘end toend’ process). The work is specificallydeveloping through application, as rele-vant, onto the P1E and Next Batch ofEnhancements (NBE – P2E et al) pro-grammes.

In Industry, the project is overseen day-to-day by a core team in euro fighter GmbHsupported by a Steering Committee drawnfrom euro fighter Partner Company and euro fighter management. The project re-ports to the euro fighter GmbH Board ofManagement and to the euro fighter Super-visory Board, who ensure appropriate gov-ernance is observed and provide authorityfor the Project’s work. The Steering Commit-tee provide the first level of support to deci-sions affecting the project. Specific decisionsto implement changes arising from Founda-tion work will be authorised by the appro-priate bodies within the euro fighter Pro-gramme. The project is due for completionin late Spring 2009.

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Presenting the New COO

Managing the Programme

Trevor King

Trevor King (right) wasBAE Systems’

Eurofighter TyphoonProgramme Manager

since 2004

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equally, to feed the interests of the taxpayingpublic visitors so that they also exit theshow with rose-tinted Eurofighter Typhoonspectacles!

Future business, however, depends on tai-lored messages being transmitted to theright people. Competition for place and atten-

Exhibitions are a platform to simultaneouslycommunicate many messages to all targetgroups. During “home” events such as ILABerlin and Farnborough International, theagenda is not only to demonstrate programmebenefits to the key parliamentarians andmilitary officials of the core customer, but,

Eurofighter Typhoon at home and abroad

Global exhibit

An event still in its infancy having only beeninaugurated in 2007, this year’s BSDA wasthe stage for campaign-leading EPC (Eurofight-er Partner Company) Alenia Aeronautica toaddress the influential players in Romaniandefence decision-making. The three-day ex-hibition carried enough weight to attract Ro-mania’s Deputy Minister of Defence, the na-tion’s Head of Procurement and the military’sChief of Air Staff, all of whom took an inter-est in Eurofighter Typhoon. Supporting Aleniathrough the provision of an aircraft for thestatic park was the Italian Air Force. The ac-companying air- and groundcrew alsobriefed a procession of Romanian military

visitors keen on acquainting themselveswith the aircraft.

The campaign team, led by Alenia’sGiuseppe Paoletti, Campaign Director, andsupported by Eurofighter’s Vice PresidentBusiness Development, Peter Meier, also host-ed a pres conference for around 25 mostlyRomanian journalists where, alongside noteson core programme achievements, theyhighlighted the benefits that Eurofighter Ty-phoon would bring to Romania’s defenceconcerns. Chief among them was that, whenassessing the threat of the Su-30, only Eu-rofighter Typhoon out of the competing air-craft (F-16, Gripen) can comfortably take

24-26 September: Bucharest, Romania

Black Sea Defense & Aerospace

Even before the build-up phase for the Yoko-hama-based show could get underway, theJapanese Ministry of Defence came out to con-firm the rumours of a delay of up to 18months for the release of the Request for Pro-posal in its F-X Fighter Competition. Unde-terred, the BAE Systems-led, Alenia Aeronau-

tica-supported campaign team descended on the land of the rising sun with the sim-ple message that Eurofighter Typhoon is thebest available weapon system for Japan’s Air Force requirements.

Overall, the Eurofighter team’s inauguralparticipation was successful. Specific brief-

01-05 October: Yokohama, Japan

Japan Aerospace, Yokohama

The financial constraints placed on Greecethrough hosting the 2004 Summer OlympicGames took a heavy toll and, as a result, re-duced the urgency on major Hellenic pro-curement programmes. The re-election ofthe ruling New Democratic party, it ishoped, will be followed by a direction-set-ting process and the restarted fighter selec-tion programme.

Defendory International, the showcaseevent in the Greek exhibition calendar, inits new home at the Hellenikon Center, al-lowed the EADS-led campaign team the op-portunity to reaffirm the consortium’s com-mitment to fulfilling the Hellenic AirForce’s requirements.

07-11 October: Athens, Greece

Defendory International

ings and demonstrations were given to MajorGeneral Hirata, Director Defense Department,ASO, Major General Fukui, Logistics Depart-ment, ASO, Major General Nakashima, Op-erations Dept, ASO, Lieutenant General Na-gashima, Air Development and Test Command,Mr Hirose, METI, Mr Katase, Mr Shikina andMr Nunobe, IHI, Lieutenant General Nagata,Commander Air Defense Command, Lieu-tenant General Iwasaki, Mr Matsuo and MrBaba, Internal Bureau, Major General Maru-mo, Head of F-X PO and Mr Shimizu, MELCO,all co-ordinated by Sumitomo Corporation.In addition, a number of interviews were giv-en by Mr Nigel Whitehead, BAE Systems’Group Managing Director, Programmes andSupport to journalists from the Nikkei,Wing Weekly and Wing JA2008 Show News.

Although it’s widely documented that theJapanese Government are lobbying the United States regarding the potential exportof the F-22, the continuing reluctance of theAmericans to release the jet for foreign mili-tary sales leaves Eurofighter Typhoon in astrong position in the F-X Competition. Theeventual contract could be worth up to 50aircraft with deliveries expected to startaround 2013.

Strategically opposite one another insidethe exhibition hall, between them the Eu-rofighter Typhoon team and their EADS coun-terparts were able to host the vast majorityof the key delegates attending Defendory.These included Ioannis Plakiotakis, DeputyMinister of Defence in Greece, and theChairman of the Parliamentary Standing Com-mittee for Defence & Foreign Affairs, PanosKammenos. The Director General of the Arma-ment Acquisitions & Defence InvestmentsGeneral Directorate, Evangelos Vassilakosstopped by as did various high-ranking Hel-lenic Air Force representatives. BrigadierGenerals Georgios Skribas and Spyros Fran-gos, Chief of Operations and Chief of Mainte-nance & Logistics respectively amongst them.

In addition to the Greek politicians andmilitary visitors, delegations from Bulgaria,India, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia andTurkey were in attendance, as well as repre-sentatives from local defence industries andmedia.

Defendory International wrapped up theexhibition circuit for 2008, so far as theEurofighter Typhoon team is concerned. Thefirst stop in 2009 will be Aero India, Banga-lore, in February.

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care of business. Paoletti and Meier alluded tothe fact that Eurofighter Typhoon fleet ef-fectiveness is the biggest discriminator againstthe less capable rivals involved in the Ro-mania competition.

The procurement contract with Romaniacould be worth up to 48 aircraft. The Requestfor Information (RFI) has been responded toon behalf of the consortium by Alenia with aRequest for Proposal (RFP) or competitivedialogue on various procurement processesindicated for end 2008 or early 2009. In October, Alenia signed a Memorandum ofAgreement (MoA) document with Romanianaircraft manufacturer Aerostar on aerospaceand engineering collaboration. The terms ofthis agreement will be activated should Eu-rofighter Typhoon be selected in the procure-ment competition.

tion is fierce. Over a three-week period travers-ing September and October, the Eurofighterexport campaign teams were put throughtheir paces at high-profile events in Roma-nia, Japan and Greece.

The Japanese Air Force took every opportunity to fly the aircraft in the Cockpit Demonstrator theexhibition team brought to Yokohama

Deputy Defence Minister Ioannis Plakiotakiscutting the ribbon at the Opening Ceremony

Greek govern-ment officialstook greatinterest inEurofighterTyphoon atAthens

Paveway

All Laser Guided Bombs already cleared forEurofighter Typhoon are being produced byRaytheon Missile Systems. The principle ofoperation is that the seeker homes in on re-flected laser energy directed onto a target.Accuracy of the weapons is very high. Thatis why they are also called Precision Muni-tion.

GBU-10 and GBU-16 describe the type ofbomb combined with the Paveway II LaserSeeker, namely the MK-84 US 2000 lbs (900kg) bomb for GBU-10 and the MK-83 US-1000lbs (450 kg) bomb. While the German, Italianand Spanish air force have a need for the in-tegration of GBU-16, Spain also wants to usethe GBU-10. Range for these bombs is givenby Raytheon between 15,000 and 40,000 ft.The accuracy of the laser seeker being be-low 10 m.

In the Royal Air Force though, Paveway IIstands for the same seeker but combinedwith a 1000lb (450 kg) UK bomb.

The latest development in Laser GuidedBombs is the dual mode seeker that com-bines the Laser seeker with GPS (Global Po-

The Eurofighter Typhoon is in operation withfive air forces, mainly in the air-to-air role,but all aircraft of Tranche 1 will be able todrop Laser Guided Bombs or use the gun to attack ground targets. The Block 5 aircrafthave this capability already; aircraft of ear-lier Blocks will have it after attaining Block5 Full Operational Capability through theRetrofit 2 programme.

This means that three LGBs are cleared forthese aircraft: GBU-10 and -16 plus PavewayII(UK). The Royal Air Force has already someTranche 1 aircraft declared multi-role capa-ble with an integrated Laser Designator Pod.These aircraft can drop the Enhanced Pave-way II weapon autonomously.

In Tranche 2 these air-to-ground capabil-ities are being extended in steps. Phase 1will see the integration of a laser designatorfor all aircraft plus EGBU-16 and PavewayIV weapons, while retaining the GBU-10/-16capability. Beyond that the air forces envisagethe integration of Stand-Off weapons StormShadow and Taurus, the supersonic clear-ance for Paveway IV, Brimstone and possiblythe Small Diameter Bomb GBU-39 would befurther steps.

sitioning System) data. The Enhanced Pave-way II, EGBU-16 and Paveway IV are suchdual mode weapons. This capability com-bines the accuracy and flexibility of the tra-ditional Laser Guided Weapons with all-weather GPS guidance. So if there is nolaser guidance available or the Laser Seek-er cannot detect the reflected energythrough cloud, the GPS will provide thebomb guidance to the target..

The EGBU-16 describes a 1000 lbs (450kg) bomb combined with this new seeker.The three partner air forces from Germany,Italy and Spain call for the integration ofthis weapon, while the UK wants the inte-gration of Paveway IV, a 225 kg bomb com-bined with a similar dual mode seeker.

Stand-Off Weapons

A modern multi-role/swing-role aircraft likeEurofighter Typhoon has to be able to oper-ate Stand-Off Weapons. Two types are underconsideration, Storm Shadow already in

operation with the Italian Air Force and theRoyal Air Force, and Taurus already intro-duced in Germany and Spain.

Selected by five countries (Greece, France,Italy, United Arab Emirates and United King-dom) Storm Shadow is a long range, con-ventionally armed, cruise missile, optimisedfor use in pre-planned attacks against heavi-ly defended, hardened and high value fixedtargets whose positions are accuratelyknown before the mission. Storm Shadowhas been used in the Iraq war by the RoyalAir Force.

Eurofighter’s Air-to-Ground Weapons

Heavy PunchOperating by day and night and in adverse

weather, Storm Shadow offers considerableoperational capability and provides a largelaunch window with minimal Fire and For-get workload. It is stealthy and fully au-tonomous after being fired.

After launch, Storm Shadow changes fromits firing altitude to very low cruising alti-tude. Its inertial navigation is continuouslyupdated through information supplied by its navigation system following the ground bydigital terrain profile matching and by GPS.This provides the missile with excellent nav-igational precision and resistance to coun-termeasures. The passive infrared imageryhoming head is activated during the finaltarget approach phase. Automatic target recog-nition algorithms then compare the actualscene with the memorised scene, identify thedesignated target and select the target im-pact point in order to hit the target with veryhigh precision.

Storm Shadow has been developed and isproduced by Europe’s Number One in Mis-sile Systems MBDA, a joint Venture Companyof Alenia, BAE Systems and EADS.

The TAURUS KEPD 350 is also a modularstand-off missile system for precision strikesagainst strongly hardened and high-valuepoint and area targets. TAURUS is designed topenetrate dense air defences in very lowlevel terrain - following flight and neutralisehigh value stationary and semi-stationarytargets – with its highly effective dual stagewarhead system MEPHISTO. It combines excellent penetration capabilities for hard anddeep buried targets (HDBT) as well as blastand fragmentation capabilities against high-value point and area targets.

The Programmable Intelligent Multi-Pur-pose Fuze (PIMPF) of the penetrator enablesdetonation of the penetrator at pre-selectedfloors within the target through layer count-ing and void sensing technology.

TAURUS KEPD 350 is deployed on theGerman Air Force Tornado IDS aircraft. A pro-curement contract has been signed by theSpanish Air Force for this missile to equiptheir EF-18 aircraft.

TAURUS KEPD 350 is a product of TAURUSSystems GmbH, a joint venture betweenLFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH (now anintegral part of MBDA) and Saab Bofors Dy-namics AB for the development, productionand global marketing of the TAURUS stand-off missile family for precision strike.

Brimstone

In November 1996 the UK MoD awardedMBDA the development and production con-tract for Brimstone. In October 2003, a suc-cessful series of test firings were carried outas part of the final stages of Brimstone'sdevelopment phase. During one of these tests,a ripple test firing, three missiles success-fully impacted on three different targets withan array of armoured vehicles. Brimstonewent into service on RAF Tornados duringthe course of 2005.

It has been designed in answer to the UKMoD's requirement for an air-to-surfacestand-off anti-tank Fire and Forget missilecapable of being engaged from far outsidethe opponent's combat system. Brimstone 'shigh flexibility of use is unique in the world.It can be launched from combat aircraft,light armoured vehicles and from the ground.Its millimetric Wave radar seeker ensurestarget searching and identification 24 hoursa day, in all weathers, and is not affected bythe smoke and obscurants of today's mod-ern battlefield.

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Brimstone is already inservice with the Royal

Air Force’s Tornadosand Harriers

Storm Shadow has been ordered by Italy and theUnited Kingdom, amongst others

Paveway II dropped by a Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon at trials in the USA earlier this year

Eurofighter Typhoon can operate the Pavewaywith laser-seekers or dual mode seekers

Paveway IV

Taurus has been ordered by Germany and Spain.Both nations want to operate the weapon withEurofighter Typhoon

The Swiss Air Force needs a replacement forpart of their F-5 fleet, and in 2010 the Par-liament in Bern will decide on the procure-ment of the successor. Already in Summer2009 the assessment of bid response and fly-ing / technical evaluation of EurofighterTyphoon and its competitors Gripen andRafale will lead to Type Selection.

On Thursday 5 November two EurofighterTyphoon aircraft landed in Emmen for theirevaluation by the Swiss Procurement Agencyarmasuisse and the Swiss Air Force. Em-men is not only a Swiss Air Force base, butalso home for the famous “Patrouille Suisse”.

The Twin Seaters IPA3 and GT015 had beenfitted with Infrared Search and Track Sys-tem PIRATE plus a reconnaissance capability

using the Rafael Recce Light pod derivedfrom the Eurofighter Laser Designator Pod.The Eurofighter evaluation in Switzerlandis a combined team effort of the German Air

Eurofighter Typhoon over Switzerland

Force, the National Test Centre WTD 61 andMilitary Air Systems of EADS Defence & Se-curity, who all seconded specialized personal.

The team was well received by theirSwiss counterparts, who were as objective asone could be when taking a look at EurofighterTyphoon’s capabilities. EADS Project PilotChris Worning commented that for him it wasanother exciting experience to fly the Eu-rofighter over such a beautiful but demand-ing landscape again, in particular underthe ever changing meteorological conditionsof November and December.

After three weeks of hard work the aircraftand the team left Emmen for home, confi-dent that Eurofighter Typhoon would be theideal aircraft to meet the Swiss requirements.

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Small Diameter Bomb

The Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) WeaponSystem, designated GBU-39 has been devel-oped by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.SDB Increment I (GBU-39) is the next gen-eration of low-cost and low collateral-damageprecision Precision Guided Munition (PGM)

The SDB system enables combat “strike”aircraft to increase the number of targetsattacked per sortie while inherently limitingcollateral damage against unintended tar-gets. In addition, the SDB System deliversprecise, penetrating weapons, day or night,in adverse weather from stand off ranges. SDBis carried by Combat aircraft in externalstores locations of internal weapons bays.

The 250 lb class GBU-39 munition comesequipped with an Anti-Jam Global PositioningSystem / Inertial Navigation System (AJG-PS/INS) guidance system that provides nav-igation of the weapon to the target coordi-nates. A wing assembly is also attached tothe weapon providing additional range.This increased range capability puts moreenemy aim points within the footprint ofthe releasing aircraft thereby allowing thelaunch aircraft to prosecute more targetson a single pass.

The GBU-39/B payload is a highly effec-tive hybrid warhead affording the warfighterboth penetration and blast and fragmenta-tion capabilities. The warhead is coupled witha cockpit selectable electronic fuze. Theweapon’s design has been optimized to limit

the effects of collateral damage due thecombination of its precise accuracy and asmaller 250 lb class warhead containingthirty-six pounds of energetic explosive fill.In addition, the warhead has been qualifiedto meet Insensitive Munition (IM) require-ments.

Production deliveries started in April 2006and the system is in full rate production.The US Air Combat Command Commanderdeclared initial operational capability forthe SDB System on October 2, 2006--fieldedahead of schedule. The SDB System wassuccessfully employed in combat from F-15EStrike Eagles of the 494th ExpeditionaryFighter Squadron providing close-air supportfor ground troops operating in Iraq startingon October 5, 2006.

The so-called Small Diameter Bomb has beendeveloped by Boeing and is in service with the US Air Force

26 flights have been performed with two aircraft to assess operational capabilities and in-service support characteristics

IPA3 after landing in a powerful air-to-air configu-ration with six AIM-120 AMRAAM, two IRIS-T andtwo external fuel tanks

The Small Diameter Bomb is of interest to theEurofighter Partner nations and its integration canbe part of future enhancements

The Swiss pilots flew with the new Helmet

into service with the Air Forces in 2003 andis presently operated by 10 units across fivenations. With the addition of the Kingdomof Saudi Arabia as the programme’s secondexport customer after Austria, there are 707aircraft with the potential for more than1,500 EJ200 engines under contract. The re-sponse to the EJ200 of the pilots flying theEurofighter Typhoon is, without exception,always positive: “I am impressed over andover again by the excellent engine han-dling“ states Major Marc Thoene, Eurofight-er Typhoon pilot in the German Air Force,Fighter Wing 73 “Steinhoff”. The pilot isequally enthusiastic about the outstandingperformance of the EJ200. “Optimum main-tainability, great reliability and low life-cy-cle costs are the characteristic features ofthis engine”, says Thoene, adding with awink, “of course, for us, the unprecedentedthrust is the most significant one.”

100,000 EFH

The EJ200 programme passed another keymilestone at the end of October: The EJ200engine achieved over 100,000 Engine FlyingHours (EFH) in the Eurofighter Typhoonfleets of the Air Forces of the United King-dom, Germany, Italy, Spain and Austria. Themulti-role combat aircraft was introduced

100th Tranche 2 Engine

The entire production of the EJ200 enginesis organized into three production stages,called Tranches. After the delivery of thelast of the 363 Tranche 1 engines in 2006,they are all successfully powering the Eu-rofighter Typhoon fleets of the Air Forces offive nations since 2007. This year’s successstory began with the delivery of the 100thTranche 2 engine to the Royal Air Force onthe 9th of June. The engine was assembledat the Rolls-Royce facilities in Bristol, Unit-ed Kingdom. The production of Tranche 2EJ200 engines is progressing in line withestablished plans of the overall EurofighterTyphoon programme and will ensure pro-duction continuity until 2012. The EJ200 en-gines are assembled at the production facili-ties of the respective partner companiesthat comprise the EUROJET Turbo GmbHconsortium. EUROJET is responsible for themanagement of development, production,maintenance, support and export of the newgeneration EJ200 engine. The shareholdersare Rolls-Royce (UK), MTU Aero Engines(Germany), Avio (Italy) and ITP (Spain). TheEJ200 engine combines the leading tech-nologies of each of the four European com-panies.

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In 2008 EUROJET Turbo GmbH, the leading military engine consortium, has achieved numerous major milestones for its EJ200 programme.

EUROJET – further on the route to success…

500th EJ200 Engine

Before the end of what has already been asuccessful year, EUROJET has another rea-son to celebrate: On the 5th of November2008 the 500th EJ200 engine rolled out ofthe assembly line at MTU Aero Engines inMunich, Germany, and was delivered to theGerman customer. In recognition of this re-markable achievement, EUROJET invited therepresentatives of everyone who made thismajor success happen to the FlugwerftSchleissheim near Munich. Amongst theguests were representatives of NETMA/ Nations (NATO Eurofighter and TornadoManagement Agency), the Air Forces of theUnited Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain andAustria, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH,Rolls-Royce, MTU Aero Engines, Avio, ITPand other friends of the aerospace commu-nity. All in all, more than 160 guests joinedEUROJET for this interesting and entertain-ing evening in the branch of the DeutschesMuseum celebrating between the various

aircraft and engine exhibits of the lastdecades, one of them being the celebratedobject itself – the EJ200. In his movingspeech, Hartmut J. Tenter, the Managing

Director of EUROJET Turbo GmbH, expressedhis gratitude for the effective cooperation,motivation and constant input from all partners, which made it possible to face thedemanding challenges and to succeed in ultimately providing the Partner Air Forceswith the world-leading engine that they deserve.

Future Prospects

EUROJET now looks forward to the next upcoming achievement – the first engine toachieve 1,000th flying hours installed in aEurofighter Typhoon. Whether this furthermilestone in the successful history of theEJ200 programme will be reached this yearor at the beginning of next year will becomeapparent during the next weeks. In eithercase, 2009 will be another promising yearon the route to success of the EJ200 pro-gramme.

Speakers at the 500th EJ200 celebration at the Flugwerft Schleißheim:Hartmut J. Tenter, EUROJET Managing Director; Werner Sabarz, DeputyGeneral Manager, speaking on behalf of the NETMA General ManagerAntonino Altorio and Major General Karl Muellner as representative of theGerman Air Force

The 100th EJ200 Tranche 2 engine produced at Rolls-Royce in Bristol

The 500th EJ200 production engine produced at MTU in Munich

The venue of the celebration in one of the hangarsat the Flugwerft Oberschleißheim

DA-1, the firstEurofighter Typhoon

prototype, on displayat Flugwerft

Oberschleißheim

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■ Eurofighter in Neuburg

■ First aircraft for Saudi Arabia flown

■ Project Foundation

■ 500 EJ200 delivered

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Eurofighter’s Air-to-Ground Weapons

Heavy Punch

Since 1 July 2008 Eurofighter Typhoons operating out of Zeltweg Air Base in Styria protect Austria’s air space from unwanted intruders

Eurofighter Typhoon of IX Stormo leaving the air base in Gioia del Colle after a deployment to the second Eurofighter base of the Italian Air Force