I am wondering is the Typhoon a British jet And that its made in spain , german and Italy under lisence? after all it did come from this british jet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_EAP which I think makes it british and we are building Typhoons for Saudi Arabia unlike the Germans who just gave Austria air force some of there old ones. And BAe Systerm have been at the Dubai Airshow to show of the Typhoon
Plus we have the largest order for typhoons
Austria 15
Germany 180
Italy 121
Saudi Arabia 72
Spain 87
United Kingdom 232
So is it British or is just the british doing more with the Typhoon or is it me being STUPID ?
And to thye best of my knowledge, the Typhoons that Saudi is getting are the ones the RAF were supposed to be getting before the governement reduced the funding... :@
XR219 wrote:And to thye best of my knowledge, the Typhoons that Saudi is getting are the ones the RAF were supposed to be getting before the governement reduced the funding... :@
Certainly the Saudi order got the next RAF slots on the "production line" (loose term seeing as the components come from all four countries) AFAIK. I still think the RAF is down for the full 232 jets...
...Brown's lot and our part time Defence Minister Brown-e just haven't had the balls to formerly announce the total eventual cut from 232 yet... :roll:
As I understand it we currently have to take the full 232 jet order to fulfil our obligations under all the contracts we signed as part of the program. Shifting some on to the Saudis doesn't fulfil this obligation, we (as in the UK not me personally) still have to receive 232 airframes. I've heard it'd be cheaper to get the airframes and then put them in storage than cancel part of the order. What happens after we've received them all is I suspect entirely up to us but as that's several years in the future we can't hope that prospective customers will be willing to wait that long.
Was we ment to have an order of 250 typhoons the Germans 230 italys 200 I think and spain 170? but all have dropped there orders it looks like the UK are not the only ones doing cuts in there force's :think:
jab wrote:Was we ment to have an order of 250 typhoons the Germans 230 italys 200 I think and spain 170? but all have dropped there orders it looks like the UK are not the only ones doing cuts in there force's :think:
jab wrote:Was we ment to have an order of 250 typhoons the Germans 230 italys 200 I think and spain 170? but all have dropped there orders it looks like the UK are not the only ones doing cuts in there force's :think:
James
Been 232 as long as I can remember.
Im sure it was 250 but they cancelled it to 232? :think:
The MoD has been trying to get out of it's full commitment but it still stand at 232 the original figure.
No mention of it being 250
The article I just read said that (at that time) the RAF had 144 delivered and despite the MoD's best efforts to cut the commitment they still had to take another 88
So if you do the maths :think:
Just as well they can't wriggle out as they are needed more now than when they were ordered.
Garry
Garry
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Yeah I just tried to look for the 250 but I cant see it anywhere but what did catch my eyes is this which im confused about
while Saudi Arabia ordered 72 Typhoons in September 2007 to be delivered in 2008. These will be assembled at BAE Systems' Warton plant in the UK and in Saudi Arabia, and will be some of the aircraft that were originally destined for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as part of its tranche two order
Whats Tranche two this a updated verison of the Typhoon? :think:
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