The Eurofighter is the sleek, supersonic, heavily armed, multi-role fighter aircraft that is the latest addition to a cluster of airforces in Europe. The Royal AirForce happens to call it the Phantom, but this fighter plane is also the pride of the German and Italian and Austrian and Spanish airforces. And Saudi Arabia has just placed a multi-billion pound order for it. The mind-boggling fact is that this ultra-modern aeroplane, that now costs no less than £45 million pounds apiece, has taken almost 40 years to get airborne. This programme reveals for the very first time the extraordinary story of the political and industrial deals that had to be struck to enable this immensely powerful war machine to get airborne. Britain fails to seal multi-billion pound deal to sell 60 Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighters to the United Arab Emirates. Radar issues contributed to the Eurofighter consortium losing out on a $20 billion deal to sell 126 jets to India in 2012 and experts have said that equipping the new radar system to the fighters would help sell more of them. Nippon(Japan) had been identified as a potential export market for the Eurofighter Typhoon, but the Japanese government is set to confirm Lockheed Martins F-35 jet as the winner of a multi-billion contract. BAE says UAE pulls out of Typhoon talks. Eurofighter Typhoon have been eliminated from the FX-III competition to build South Korea 60 new fighter jets The Republic of Korea has officially selected the F-35 as its next-generation fighter, the government announced this morning. Ankara, Turkey would either go alone or partner with another country for the air superiority fighter. It has also rejected the Eurofighter as a candidate. Swiss reject Eurofighter. Such is the Failure of the Eurofighter. https://youtube/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J7C4kS-0HwI
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:46:19 +0000
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