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Leonardo to study Typhoon friend-or-foe capability under U.K. program
 by Geoff Ziezulewicz
 Farnborough, England (UPI) Jul 13, 2016


BAE, U.K. reach $2.7 billion deal to support Typhoon fighter
London (UPI) Jul 13, 2016 - BAE Systems announced a 10-year partnership Wednesday with the U.K. Ministry of Defense to support the Typhoon fleet.

The deal is expected to be worth $2.7 billion and signed soon.

Working with the Royal Air Force and Leonardo-Finmeccanica, the partnership will seek ways to further reduce fleet operating costs by more than a third at RAFs Coningsby and Lossiemouth, BAE said in a statement.

BAE said the deal could see savings of more than $658 million that would be reinvested to develop new aircraft capabilities.

The deal will combine supplier contracts from across Europe into a single program, BAE said.

Combining support arrangements into one program will help increase reliability and availability of the fleet, while making support more affordable, BAE said.

Leonardo-Finmeccanica is working on a new technology demonstrator program with the U.K. Ministry of Defense regarding the Eurofighter Typhoon's identification friend-or-foe, or IFF, system, the company announced Tuesday.

The program will study the benefits Typhoon would gain from a new electronically scanning IFF system that also meets the latest and most secure standards, Leonardo said in a statement.

It will also prepare the jet for future technology insertion.

Leonardo already provides such systems for platforms such as the Saab Gripen E.

An IFF system allows pilots to recognize other friendly vehicles and identify potential threats.

An electronically scanning IFF system would be able to interact with the E-Scan 'Captor-E' radar currently under development, Leonardo said. The IFF's arrays would be able to look in a different direction to the Typhoon's radar, allowing the pilot to use the radar to queue-up targets for subsequent identification.

The current Typhoon system is due for upgrades to meet new civilian air traffic regulations in 2017 and new military regulations in 2019.

The initial phase of the MOD program will prepare the Typhoon to meet these needs.


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