Eurofighter Typhoon vs Gripen
Eurofighter Typhoon vs Gripen
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine canard-delta wing multirole aircraft. It is being designed and built by a consortium of three companies: Alenia Aeronautica, BAE Systems, and EADS .
DEVELOPMENT
1971 - UK requirement for a new fighter - resulted in a conventional "tailed" design known as P.96;
1979 - West German requirement for a new fighter - had led to the development of the TKF-90 concept;
1979 British Aerospace and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm presented a formal proposal to their respective governments for the ECF, the European Collaborative Fighter or European Combat Fighter;
October 1979 a French aircraft manufacturer joined the team for a tri-national study - European Combat Aircraft.
1983 - the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain launched the Future European Fighter Aircraft (FEFA) programme: - the aircraft was to have Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) and Beyond Visual Range (BVR) capabilities;
1984 - France officially withdrew from the project to pursue its own ACX project, which was to become the Dassault Rafale . Italy, West Germany , UK and Spain – continued the Eurofighter project with the share of the production work divided in proportion to their projected procurement : - British Aerospace (33%) - DASA (33%) - Aeritalia(21%) - Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) (13%).
Testing - the maiden flight of the Eurofighter prototype took place on 27 March 1994 around Bavaria.
Orders - The first production contract was signed on 30 January 1998:
• UK - 40 aircrafts
• Germany - 31 aircrafts
• Italy - 21 aircrafts
• Spain - 20 aircrafts
Costs - Unit cost €63 million (flyaway cost, estimated).
Standard unit flyaway cost elements include the costs of procuring airframes; engines; avionics; armaments;engineering change orders; nonrecurring costs including production
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine canard-delta wing multirole aircraft. It is being designed and built by a consortium of three companies: Alenia Aeronautica, BAE Systems, and EADS .
DEVELOPMENT
1971 - UK requirement for a new fighter - resulted in a conventional "tailed" design known as P.96;
1979 - West German requirement for a new fighter - had led to the development of the TKF-90 concept;
1979 British Aerospace and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm presented a formal proposal to their respective governments for the ECF, the European Collaborative Fighter or European Combat Fighter;
October 1979 a French aircraft manufacturer joined the team for a tri-national study - European Combat Aircraft.
1983 - the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain launched the Future European Fighter Aircraft (FEFA) programme: - the aircraft was to have Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) and Beyond Visual Range (BVR) capabilities;
1984 - France officially withdrew from the project to pursue its own ACX project, which was to become the Dassault Rafale . Italy, West Germany , UK and Spain – continued the Eurofighter project with the share of the production work divided in proportion to their projected procurement : - British Aerospace (33%) - DASA (33%) - Aeritalia(21%) - Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) (13%).
Testing - the maiden flight of the Eurofighter prototype took place on 27 March 1994 around Bavaria.
Orders - The first production contract was signed on 30 January 1998:
• UK - 40 aircrafts
• Germany - 31 aircrafts
• Italy - 21 aircrafts
• Spain - 20 aircrafts
Costs - Unit cost €63 million (flyaway cost, estimated).
Standard unit flyaway cost elements include the costs of procuring airframes; engines; avionics; armaments;engineering change orders; nonrecurring costs including production