Eurofighter Typhoon | the advanced fighter designed by the European powers

Video from the channel MilitarMente about Eurofighter Typhoon, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 10:44. Language: Spanish. Video type: Documentary.

An explainer piece about the Eurofighter Typhoon, the fighter jet jointly developed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain. It explains how it was conceived, how it fights and which countries use it or have wanted to acquire it.

The video places the project's origin in 1983 and its entry into service in 2003, after around twenty years of development, with Airbus, BAE Systems and Alenia Aeronautica as the companies responsible. It explains that it was designed for two missions: beyond-visual-range combat and close combat. Its deliberately unstable configuration gives it great agility, compensated for by a computerised flight control system. The video attributes the aircraft's continued relevance to phased development: Tranche 1; Tranche 2, with new mission computers; and Tranche 3A/3B, which adds the Captor-E AESA radar and thrust-vectoring nozzles.

According to the video, the radar detects enemies at 120 km and the aircraft reaches its top speed in 150 seconds. Saudi Arabia bought 72 units for £4.43 billion, and other customers include Austria, Oman and Kuwait. The video puts the number of aircraft built by 2017 at 623 and the unit price at around $90 million. It also mentions Switzerland's interest in around 24 units. In June 2019, the Colombian Air Force included the Eurofighter on its shortlist, alongside the F-16 and the Gripen. The offer was a dozen first-version aircraft from the Spanish Air Force.