{"id":2300,"date":"2014-11-19T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2015-06-15T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:55:04","slug":"eurofighter-receives-a-true-avionics-boost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/19\/eurofighter-receives-a-true-avionics-boost-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurofighter receives a true avionics boost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The addition of a true AESA radar will give the Airbus Eurofighter a new lease of life. \u00a9Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Eurofighter will be equipped with a new generation of radar which will enhance the aircraft\u2019s capabilities and substantially improve the pilots\u2019 ability to survive. During a meeting of the defence state secretaries of the Eurofighter nations (Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain) held in Edinburgh, representatives of Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH and NETMA (NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency) signed a 1 billion euro contract to develop a new, electronically scanned radar, the so-called \u201cCaptor-E\u201d.
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Airbus Defence and Space is playing a major role in the development and integration of the radar, via its Military Aircraft and Electronics business lines. \u201cTogether with our partners in the Euroradar consortium we are developing the world\u2019s most powerful fighter radar,\u201d said Thomas M\u00fcller, head of the Electronics business line at Airbus Defence and Space. \u201cThis order will ensure ongoing development of radar technology, which is a core military capability in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berndt W\u00fcnsche, head of Combat Aircraft at Airbus Defence and Space, stated in Edinburgh: \u201cThis decision ensures that the Eurofighter will continue to be the best combat aircraft available in the world. The Captor-E radar will open up completely new options for deployment and will substantially improve the Eurofighter\u2019s export opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The contract signed today in Edinburgh between the European consortium Eurofighter GmbH, which produces the Typhoon fighter, and the inter-governmental agency NETMA (NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency) to develop the electronically scanned Captor-E radar for the Typhoon, will represent for Finmeccanica an order value of more than \u20ac400 million. \u00a9Eurofighter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The main advantage of the Captor-E is its ability to perform several tasks practically simultaneously. This means that the pilot is able to scan a wide area in front of the aircraft or on the ground, while identifying ground targets or tracking individual flying objects at the same time. The new technology enables an increased range in target acquisition and target tracking and, thanks to the rotating antenna, a considerably larger field of view, compared to other state-of-the-art combat aircraft.<\/p>\n

The new radar is being developed by Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH and the Euroradar consortium comprising Selex ES (Great Britain, Italy), Indra (Spain) and Airbus Defence and Space (Germany). The consortium has already developed and produced more than 400 Captor radars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Eurofighter will be equipped with a new generation of radar which will enhance the aircraft\u2019s capabilities and substantially improve the pilots\u2019 ability to survive. During a meeting of the defence state secretaries of the Eurofighter nations (Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain) held in Edinburgh, representatives of Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH and NETMA (NATO Eurofighter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-defense"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}