⚪ Caccia EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON - (Germania, Inghilterra, Italia e Spagna) Svelato il Segreto!

Video from the channel NATO NELLE FORZE ARMATE about Eurofighter Typhoon, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 24:26. Language: Italian. Video type: Documentary.

Italian-language documentary, narrated with voice-over, that covers the Eurofighter Typhoon chapter by chapter: description, history, development, production, first flight and entry into service, operators, cost, engine, dimensions, armament and operational history. It is presented as a twin-engine, advanced fourth-generation multirole fighter, designed for air superiority and later expanded to ground attack.

The programme began in the mid-1980s as a collaboration between Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. The aircraft first flew on 27 March 1994 and entered service on 4 August 2003; the Royal Air Force received it on 30 June 2003. In Italy, the 9th Gruppo of the 4th Stormo was the first unit to receive it, on 16 March 2004, replacing the F-104 ASA-M. Italy declared initial operational capability on 16 December 2005, the first of the four partners to do so, and its first mission was protecting the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. The video then covers the air defence of Slovenia, Albania and Montenegro and Operation Unified Protector in Libya in 2011. This is followed by missions over the Baltic and Iceland, Operation Shader against the Islamic State since 2015, the Italian deployment to Kuwait within Inherent Resolve, the deployment to Romania in 2019, and its use as an aggressor aircraft in the RAF since 2020. Besides the four partners, it is also operated by Saudi Arabia and Austria.

Each partner has its own final assembly line, in Warton, Manching, Turin-Caselle and Getafe, and manufactures common parts for all aircraft built. Producing one aircraft takes about 40 weeks and the unit cost cited is around €62.9 million. Its two Eurojet EJ200 turbofans produce 60 kN of rated thrust and 90 kN with afterburner. It measures 15.96 m in length, 10.95 m in wingspan and 5.28 m in height, with a maximum take-off weight of 23,500 kg and around 5,000 kg of payload. It carries 13 weapon hardpoints, a 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon and missiles such as the AIM-9L, IRIS-T, AIM-120, Meteor, ALARM, SCALP and Taurus KEPD 350.