The typhoon is struggling?? What are you on about dude? Don't believe what some sensational news agencies often say to attract viewers/readers. Lol Typhoon is doing just fine(now than fine to be more precise). Our typhoons already have more than 350,000 hurs flying time accumulated across the world. How many modern fighter jets can boast of that??
Many upgrades are ongoing even though its true that it's mostly Britain that is pushing/carrying them out(it's normal though,since we are the original creator of the EFT project itself. ).
The main advantage our typhoon have is that it is an inherently flexible platform and was designed from the very beginning to be continually upgraded. BAE Systems Being the leader in this project is continually enhancing the aircraft ensuring it continues to meet operational demand and the emerging threats of the future for decades to come.
Plus, There is a continual evolution of many more deadly weapons systems such as SPEAR missiles, brimstone, meteor, Storm shadow, Marte-ER, sensors and information management etc to ensure Typhoon continues to meet its future operational requirements .
Plus there is the advanced E-Scan radar which our defence giant BAE is in final face of testing trials on a British Aircraft, which will be fully integrated by next year. This radar capability will further improve Eurofighter Typhoon's combat effectiveness, allowing the aircraft to continue to maintain its superiority over future-threat combat aircraft.
Moreover, the first production orders were placed at the start of 2016 with the required capability to be available for the first deliveries to the Kuwait Air Force , Typhoon’s eighth customer and counting(with many more to come).
If typhoon is 'struggling' then all other fighter jets in the world must be doing even worse.
Who started this F-22 for India stuff? @PARIKRAMA it was you wasn't it!?
India is still a while away from attaining a 5th gen fighter. The J-31 and J-20 can wait
I mean Typhoons and Su-35 are not as combat effective as 5th generation fighters but they are still very expensive. From a cost-to-effectiveness ratio standpoint wouldn't it be better to wait for a few years and buy a better fighter that cost a little more than to buy Su-35 right now, only to find it to be ineffective in the future?
Typhoons and Su-35's are just as good if not better then 5th gen fighters, typhoons have been able to "shoot down" F-22's in mockup combat.
Yes, I am aware of that either but that was a within visual range training. The raptor could have downed the Typhoon in BVR combat if it was for real. I am not saying that 4.5 gen. fighters are bad by any means but I am worried that the exchange ratio between 4.5 and 5th gen. fighters in real combat will not be a good one
This is not F-16 although we are also going to buy more second hand F-16 but these sophisticated jets are either Euro Fighter and SU-35 and one of them would be chosen really soon INSHALLAH.
Sir plans have changed and the plan you are telling us was and is the plan was never the plan from day one. I have close relative in PAF and I know few things.
Ill look back again in a year and the same excitable kids that I told back in 2011 that the PAF is buying 150 JF-17s, 80 F-16s and will keep 50 F-7PGs till a 5th gen
will be here again talking about some "fantastic" development.
Only if YOU can talk some sense into them man. ONLY IF!!
Ill look back again in a year and the same excitable kids that I told back in 2011 that the PAF is buying 150 JF-17s, 80 F-16s and will keep 50 F-7PGs till a 5th gen
will be here again talking about some "fantastic" development.
