Also a waste of money, space and a big maintenance hassle. The ship's only going to have mabey 30 fixed wing strike aircraft. It wouldn't be worth the great cost of adapting the Typhoon only to buy perhaps 40 of them. I very much doubt the tail hook can take a carrier landing, those on USAF aircraft sure can't.Dirty Harry wrote:Does anyone know if were going to get a navalised version of the Eurofighter Typoon? If the carrier could operate both this and the F-35, that would be pretty sweet.
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Eh? Why would USAF aircraft have hooks?Sea Skimmer wrote:Also a waste of money, space and a big maintenance hassle. The ship's only going to have mabey 30 fixed wing strike aircraft. It wouldn't be worth the great cost of adapting the Typhoon only to buy perhaps 40 of them. I very much doubt the tail hook can take a carrier landing, those on USAF aircraft sure can't.Dirty Harry wrote:Does anyone know if were going to get a navalised version of the Eurofighter Typoon? If the carrier could operate both this and the F-35, that would be pretty sweet.
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To slow them down faster, and to allow short field landings....kheegan wrote: Eh? Why would USAF aircraft have hooks?
(mind you, not as SHORT as that of a carrier flight deck....more
like several hundred feet of concrete, rather than 40 feet of carrier
deck....)
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Yeah, got to remember that carrier aircraft are extremely rugged, these things have to accelerate and decelerate at many gees and often on very weak points of a normal aircraft.MKSheppard wrote:To slow them down faster, and to allow short field landings....kheegan wrote: Eh? Why would USAF aircraft have hooks?
(mind you, not as SHORT as that of a carrier flight deck....more
like several hundred feet of concrete, rather than 40 feet of carrier
deck....)
Though a naval EFA would be cool if impractical for the above reasons of cost etc. Mind you, the Russians managed to get the MiG-29 and Su-37 flying off the Kuznetsov and that was a glorified cruiser they say.
Actually, the Typhoon was in the running against the JSF.Sea Skimmer wrote:Also a waste of money, space and a big maintenance hassle. The ship's only going to have mabey 30 fixed wing strike aircraft. It wouldn't be worth the great cost of adapting the Typhoon only to buy perhaps 40 of them. I very much doubt the tail hook can take a carrier landing, those on USAF aircraft sure can't.Dirty Harry wrote:Does anyone know if were going to get a navalised version of the Eurofighter Typoon? If the carrier could operate both this and the F-35, that would be pretty sweet.
It wouldn't've been much hassle to make a complete navlized variant with folding wings and better 'hook.
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