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Here's a cool video, you can see the HUD quite well. That bar on the left is an Energy indicator. On the right of the vertical line is an arrow which shows the current AoA, Ideal AoA for highest sustained turn rate(the longer line towards the top) and ideal AoA for highest acceleration(the shorter line towards the bottom). on the left it shows current speed(long-ish line with vertical line to the left of it), ideal speed for highest sustained turn rate(the box), lowest speed for highest G(short-ish line) and a speed trend(that vertical line to the left of the current speed indication), all in between the 2 lines at the top and bottom of the vertical line which display that maximum and minimum speed

about the rolling: I've noticed that the Eurofighter does not roll around the fuselage but rather does some kind of barrel roll. In some paper(can't remember where) they mentioned that its because the pilot's head is quite high and rolling around the fuselage would exert latteral forces on the head of the pilot. Is that correct?

yep. if i understand the paper that i linked correctly, then the ITR is artifically limited due to unwanted rolling and yawing at high AoA. this effect is reduced by introducing different fuselage strakes(i'm not a mechanical engineer lol). the extended flaperons are unfortunately not discussed in the paper but the cited source ("Hitzel, S. M., Osterhuber, R., “Enhanced Maneuverability of a Delta-Canard Combat Aircraft by Vortex Flow Control”, Journal of Aircraft, Volume 55, Number 3, pp1090-1102, May-June 2018") should include more of that

that is correct. however, it appears to only have the wing root extensions. the newer AMK(it says kit in the name lol) has different strakes and larger flaperons.

Challenges & Needs for the Understanding of Combat Aircraft Aerodynamics here's a paper about the AMK. well, it includes the AMK, it's not necessarily the main topic

According to Diehl BGT Defence(the manufacturer of the IRIS-T), 5 out of 6 Eurofighter users use the IRIS-T so that leaves the RAF as the only Eurofighter + ASRAAM customer. Ignore this, its an old brochure Anyways, while HB/TG have stated that they're not making a specific version of the Eurofighter, they have said that they're focusing on the German version of the Eurofighter... pretty sure that all of you(including HB/TB) would agree that having only one bomb as your one and only ground ordnance is kinda sad... Maybe we'll get GBU-54 and Taurus because those have been spotted on German Eurofighters(not ones for testing like the IPA7) but thats pure speculation

the Bundeswehr lists it as one of the weapons used on the Eurofighter. its not a regular 9L though, its the L/i so its more comparable to the AIM-9M

They might limit it to weapons that Germany uses. Here's the website of the Bundeswehr... if this is all we'd get then that wouldn't be a lot(as in only the GBU-48 and GBU-54 soon™)... seems like a boring decision to me... so hopefully its more than just that. They could add the Taurus as flight testing and integration was done on the German IPA7(reg 98+07). the same aircraft has also been spotted with the Storm Shadow(just keep in mind that this is very aircraft is used for testing) AGM-88 HARM might be interesting because we did sign a contract for Eurofighter ECR just last year. Personally i think that HB/TG are going to start with weapons that are in active service with the GAF right now.

https://fb.watch/h-TG4KEs71/ here's the link its a video

the thing, that one might be inclined to call the UFC, is known as the Head Up Panel. the Pilot Display Unit is the device that controls the information displayed on the HUD and is the top row of buttons above the HUP. both the HUP and PDU are part of the HUD and show various information like fuel status, engine speed and radio stuff.

Either that or it just has no function. I have no sources proving or disproving that its like the F-15E's nav pod. On aircraft that do have the PIRATE it is of course possible to project the IR image onto the HUD.

nothing in 2023 and beyond ....

i cannot agree on the "generic term" part. if you could tell me where you get that from, that'd be great because i can't find anything suggesting that the Captor-C was/is also described as the Captor-M.

so the Eurofighter uses an active kind of MAW. There are 3 antennas around the aircraft(2 on the wings at the front close to the fuselage and one right above the drag chute door which is betwen and above the engines). These antennas are basically radars that, using the doppler shift, detect objects flying towards or away from the aircraft. These radars are said to use the Ka -band(so 26.5 - 40 GHz) which is a much higher frequency than what the CAPTOR-M is said to use(X-Band, 8-12GHz) meaning that its better at detecting smaller targets(like missiles). However, they are also capable of detecting full size targets like aircraft. Why use an active MAW? Well thats rather simple: it can detect a missile even when its motor is no longer burning and the missile has cooled down substantially. the downside is that its an emmiting radar so its possible to detect these radar waves. With this MAW the Eurofighter can tell the difference between radar guided and IR guided missiles and deploy the correct type of countermeasure.

Captor-M is an M-scan radar btw, not PESA or AESA. and another sidenote(not necessarily related), the CAPTOR-D is the CAPTOR-M. the -D was renamed to -M

do we know anything more about that rail except that it exists? like a name, company, etc etc we know that the regular rails are made by https://acma-missionmanagement.de/ but they do not mention double rails anywhere acma is a subsidiary of https://aerea.it/ and airbus

German IPA7 with inert Taurus KEPD 350 flight tests started in 2014 Airbus Defence and Space here's another one with inert Taurus missiles... but in grey! (the blue ring indicates an inert weapon) The registration on this one (30-32) seems to suggest that its a regular production unit(and not an Instrumented Production Unit or IPA) as its part of the Jagdgeschwader 74. so maybe the integration is already done? Here it is again. On this one you can see that its carrying 2 extra IRIS-T rails. I have yet to find any info about those containing chaff/flare launchers as well. Johann Watz https://www.flugzeug-bild.de/bild/militaerflugzeuge~eurofighter~typhoon/8546/taxing-eurofighter-typhoon-3032jg74-etsnneuburggermany.html this is the closest thing to a rear aspect picture that i could find but the resolution is way too low for me to tell. the rail does seem a little short though Johann Watz Take-Off, Eurofighter Typhoon 30+32/JG74/ ETSN,Neuburg,Germany - Flugzeug-bild.de Kurt Greul Germany Air Force, 30+75, Eurofighter, EF-2000 Typhoon, 25.05.2021, ETSN, Neuburg, Germany - Flugzeug-bild.de

Couldn't care more about it

Vapours on this aircraft are exceptionally good looking. (and i will probably end up posting something that was posted before) Ian Ramsbottom Award-Winning Picture of Eurofighter Typhoon (businessinsider.com) Stuart Robertson Reynolds Eurofighter Typhoon F2 | An RAF Eurofighter Typhoon F2 at th… | Flickr Neil Jackson Eurofighter Typhoon HDR | Neil Jackson | Flickr and here's a picture with Drakens Aircraft9 | poter.simon | Flickr

given HB and TG's stance on which "version" they'll introduce, chances are incredibly high that we'll get a full DASS suite. the airframes that lack this rear sensor are probably either training, testing or just old airframes. personally i think it'd be ridiculous to leave it out....

the modeling was, if i understand it correctly, done by someone at TrueGrit so maybe Miltech did the texturing for the cockpit... its odd because Miltech's website doesnt mention the Eurofighter and that one post also seems to be the only one.

is it a new post?

the laser warning system was only installed on the British and(i think) Saudi ones... dont see why the german one should lack a rear MAW as it clearly has the antenna for it

... and arguably less complex or at least with more publically available information

hmm they might try to implement some of the EJ2x0's improvements but without the thrust vectoring... actually maybe not - that thing is a whole different beast Eurofighter Technology and Performance : Propulsion (archive.org) here's an article about the EJ200 and its development with regards to the J2x0.... predicted thrust of 120kN with reheat. jeez