Photos of Arresting Hooks on Saudi Typhoons

[Mosamania]

Photos of Arresting Hooks on Saudi Typhoons

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[Mosamania]

 

[OrionHunter]

Question 1: Why do your Typhoons have arresting hooks when you don't have any aircraft carriers?

Question 2: Is the Royal Saudi Navy planning to acquire one in the near future?

 

[Frogman]

Question 1: Why do your Typhoons have arresting hooks when you don't have any aircraft carriers?

Question 2: Is the Royal Saudi Navy planning to acquire one in the near future?

The arresting hook is present on the Typhoon (and other British/Euro fighters) in case of a hydraulic failure. Such failures lead to the brakes not working and as such the aircraft will not stop upon landing, so instead an arresting hook is used. This does not mean that the Typhoon could withstand a carrier landing.

Typhoon takes the wire at Coningsby • FighterControl • Home to the Military Aviation Enthusiast

 

[Mosamania]

Question 1: Why do your Typhoons have arresting hooks when you don't have any aircraft carriers?

Question 2: Is the Royal Saudi Navy planning to acquire one in the near future?

As my friend Frogman said, this is for brake failure and short runways scenarios in case of emergency landings. The Typhoon is not equipped with reinforced landing gears or the extra body plating to sustain the controlled carrier landing crash.

 

[Kompromat]

• Used for emergency landings, in case of hydraulic failure, engine failure or non responsive landing gear.
• To land on short runways.

Hook helps in such emergencies.

Here is a PAF A-5 Fantan bomber which failed to deploy its landing gear and the pilot had to land on the belly. In case of a jet having the hook, it becomes much easier to carry out an emergency landing.

 

[DANGER-ZONE]

As described by @Frogman, such arrestor hooks are present in many fighter aircraft for the same purpose.

F-16

F-15

F-35A

F-22

One more thing that conventional arrestor hooks are not designed to sustain greater force hence they are physically quite thin and have simple arresting mechanism.

Like here in F-15

F-16

While the one used for carrier based arresting purpose have complex and strong mechanism.

F-18

Su-33