telesniper2 (August 18, 2008 at 4:33 pm)

HAHAAHA This video was great, I needed a good hard belly laugh!

ArrowWindwhistler (August 10, 2008 at 6:14 pm)

Backwards missile shot lol

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 10:45 pm)

"And how do you suppose that agility will compare at high altitudes (i.e. above 55,000 ft.)? ..."There's know way to know how they compare above 55,000ft, but the Typhoon was definitely designed to perform up high though. TVC will help increase pitch control obviously, but most manoeuvres require more than just pitch control alone, even a simple horizontal turn requires the plane to be rolled first, and which plane has the better control in the roll axis do you suppose ? ;)

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 9:38 pm)

"Will it be as agile with a full missile load?"UNoaAU2U70w @ 7:45mPOOldlZymw @ 1:30:)

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 9:08 pm)

The area though where the Typhoon is most clearly revolutionary is in it's performance, it will out-accelerate, out-climb, out-turn, etc any of the teen series fighters, and even if you could say that leap in performance over legacy jets is more evolutionary than revolutionary, how many fighters before the Typhoon where capable of supercruise or where specifically designed for supersonic manoeuvrability ?

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 8:58 pm)

... It has the most advanced pilot interface ever conceived, incorporating voice input, sensor fusion, hmd, etc ... all features that I'm sure we will hear endlessly boasted about by Lockheed when the F-35 enters production, but which where pioneered on the Typhoon. And if you consider the APG-77 a revolutionary radar then it's only fair to also consider PIRATE revolutionary in it's own right; when compared to previous generation IRST's it represents just as much of a leap in capability.

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 8:57 pm)

"there's virtually nothing technologically revolutionary, or "unique" about it."The Typhoon is the most aerodynamically unstable fighter to date, and with it's long coupled foreplane configuration it is clearly a departure from the aerodynamic concepts of past fighter designs. The airframe employs an 'unprecedented' percentage of composites and advanced materials (double the composite usage of the F-22 for instance), and was the first with integrated structural health monitoring. :)

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 2:32 pm)

Which unit price is that em, the actual unit price declared by official sources like the UK GAO, or your take on it ? ;)Is the Typhoon expensive ? ... yes, but you get what you pay for; it is the most advanced multi-role platform in the world, already replacing eleven different aircraft types, and is also the most capable fighter available, only being rivalled by the F-22 which is far more expensive and is not available for export anyway. :)

MrPikon (August 9, 2008 at 2:49 am)

"Can it sustain 9 g's with an AtA missile loadout?"Is that meant as a joke ?? ...."... And apparently, the published g-rating for the F-22's airframe is +9.5/-3.5 g's."+9.5/-3.5 g's ? Interesting, any source to confirm that em745aa ?In either case though the planes performance far exceeds the physiological limits of the pilot, so the limits you see quoted are there for the pilots sake, or to conserve airframe life, rather than being any inherent limitation in the aircraft's performance.

em745aa (August 8, 2008 at 8:15 am)

Yes, the EF is agile and certainly a good performer overall, but its unit cost is far more than its actual worth, especially considering that there's virtually nothing technologically revolutionary, or "unique" about it.-"f22 is a little bit stealthy"It's quite a bit stealthier than the EF. The EF is a conventional fighter with L/O features added on (much like the Super Hornet and late-block F-16s). The F-22 was designed as a full-on stealth fighter from the start.