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By ANDREW CHUTER
Published: 31 Mar 2011 14:06
LONDON - The four nations behind the Eurofighter program have given the green light to the Euroradar consortium to continue development of an active electronically scanned array radar destined for the Typhoon fighter.
The radar is a critical system in the drive to secure export orders for the Typhoon in India, Japan and elsewhere, as well as being earmarked for fitting to aircraft operated by the partner nations Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain.
The Selex Galileo-led Euroradar consortium started full-scale development work on the radar, known as Captor-E, last July with a nine -month work phase which officially ends March 31.
The cash-strapped governments had to turn to industry to fund the first nine-month phase of the program.
No one is saying yet how the next phase of work will be paid for but as the budgetary situation has continued to decline in Europe in the last year, analysts here reckon industry may have had a key role to play on funding this time round as well.
A spokesman for Eurofighter declined to comment on funding but said in a statement, "Following a successful nine months of development work, partner nations and industry will continue full-scale development of an AESA radar. We are confirming the target 2015 entry into service date of the new system."
Without an AESA radar to match the technologies being offered by rival plane makers, Typhoon would effectively be out of the multi-billion dollar export market for high-end fighters.
Euroradar is developing a new array married with the existing back-end processor and receiver fitted to the current Typhoon mechanically scanned Captor radar.
Unlike rival radars, the Selex Galileo technology mounts the array on a repositioner, rather than being fixed, giving a wider field of view.
The U.K. arm of Selex Galileo is developing similar technology for Saab's Gripen NG, a rival to the Typhoon in the Indian fighter contest
Published: 31 Mar 2011 14:06
LONDON - The four nations behind the Eurofighter program have given the green light to the Euroradar consortium to continue development of an active electronically scanned array radar destined for the Typhoon fighter.
The radar is a critical system in the drive to secure export orders for the Typhoon in India, Japan and elsewhere, as well as being earmarked for fitting to aircraft operated by the partner nations Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain.
The Selex Galileo-led Euroradar consortium started full-scale development work on the radar, known as Captor-E, last July with a nine -month work phase which officially ends March 31.
The cash-strapped governments had to turn to industry to fund the first nine-month phase of the program.
No one is saying yet how the next phase of work will be paid for but as the budgetary situation has continued to decline in Europe in the last year, analysts here reckon industry may have had a key role to play on funding this time round as well.
A spokesman for Eurofighter declined to comment on funding but said in a statement, "Following a successful nine months of development work, partner nations and industry will continue full-scale development of an AESA radar. We are confirming the target 2015 entry into service date of the new system."
Without an AESA radar to match the technologies being offered by rival plane makers, Typhoon would effectively be out of the multi-billion dollar export market for high-end fighters.
Euroradar is developing a new array married with the existing back-end processor and receiver fitted to the current Typhoon mechanically scanned Captor radar.
Unlike rival radars, the Selex Galileo technology mounts the array on a repositioner, rather than being fixed, giving a wider field of view.
The U.K. arm of Selex Galileo is developing similar technology for Saab's Gripen NG, a rival to the Typhoon in the Indian fighter contest
