'Eurofighter Typhoon:The lethal weapon'

Eurofighter typhoon- one of the world's best 4/4.5 gen multi-role combat aircraft best known for its greater agility.The genesis of Typhoons dates backs to early 70's - to replace Jaguars and Harriers in service.Typhoon is designed and manufactured by a consortium of three companies under  Future European Fighter Aircraft programme-a multi-national collaborative effort between UK,Germany,France, Italy , and Spain.One of the early participant nation -France left the consortium and independently developed Dassault Rafale. Aerodynamically typhoons are unstable so it uses quadruply redundent digital flight control system to provide care-free handling .The typhoon employs a combined delta wing and canard structure( for better handling even at slow speed) with a wing area and fuel capacity similar to that of F-15 Eagle.The generous use of carbon fibre composites in the wings and fuselage, Titanium canards,Aluminium-Lithium alloy leading edges helps to reduce the weight of the aircraft and at the same time achieved high structural strength.The airframe rated to +9/-3 G at undisclosed combat weight.One of the best thing in typhoon is its state of the art glass cockpit incoporates a holographic HUD,3 color MFDs, HOTAS Control,Direct voice input system (the first production DVI system utilised in a military cockpit).The strength of typhoon is its most modern avionic pakage include Captor M radar (will be replaced by Captor E AESA )especially that in the RAF variants and excellent handling capability.Typhoon's first combat deployment was in libya 2011 both recon and Ground strike.For BVR combat typhoon's primary weapon will be Meteor and for close in combat typhoon will be armed with AIM-132.For ground strike operations typhoon's primary standoff weapon will be storm shadow cruise missile.currently typhoons are operated by 7 airforces world wide.