Eurofighter Typhoon fighters in Tranche 1 version are decommissioned ahead of schedule by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain

The UK has decided to decommission all Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 1 fighters ahead of schedule. Jane's reported.

RAF begins to decommission its obsolete combat fleet aviation... The first to be reduced are the Eurofighter Typhoon fighters in the Tranche 1 version. Today, the British Air Force has 30 aircraft of this version, 20 of which are in flight condition, and another 10 are in reserve.

All 30 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 1s will be decommissioned by 2025, although initially the Air Force wanted to operate them until 2040, since this allows the aircraft's flight resource. Reportedly, by 2025, fighters will be decommissioned with approximately 60% remaining. According to the estimates of the British military, by the time of decommissioning, the average flight time of fighters will be 2 flight hours out of 544 planned.

Regardless, all Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 1s will be decommissioned. The thing is that they already have outdated versions of computers and avionics, and in terms of their characteristics they are significantly inferior to more modern versions of the aircraft. Modernization of aircraft to the modern level was recognized as inexpedient due to the high cost.

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a 4th generation twin-engine multirole fighter with a canard design and a delta wing. Later modifications of this fighter belong to the 4+ or 4 ++ generation. It is produced in four versions: one for each country included in the consortium (Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain). The Typhoon first flew in 1994, and began mass production in 2003. It is in service with almost a dozen countries.

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[BABAY22]

Well, here's an option for a 404.

[Tonpengof]

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They dream about the F35 and look at the SuperTucano.

[Nexcom]

Quote: BABAY22

Well, here's an option for a 404.

nope, not an option. the Britons won't give it up for nothing, and the Sumerians have nothing to buy.
unless they beg the US for funds.

[Nafanya from the sofa]

All the money was spent on the fight against Petrov & Bashirov. There was nothing to keep the airplanes.

[OgnennyiKotik]

They have more than enough money. There are simply no threats against which the EF will be needed. Our VKS are weakening from year to year, we cannot deploy against China. Therefore, it is wiser to spend money on the fleet, expeditionary forces and the F-35B. Moreover, they are developing the 6th generation, which is not far off.
There is also the problem of the first versions of aircraft, they are always damp and with a lot of sores. We need a trial operation for fine-tuning. The next versions can be very different, and the price of the first to the latest version is comparable to the new aircraft.

[hrych]

Quote: OgnennyiKotik

Our videoconferencing is getting weaker from year to year

Those. a hundred new Su-35s, 130 new Su-34s and almost 120 new Su-30s, not to mention more than a hundred training, but also combat Yak-130s, speak in your sick imagination about the weakening of the Aerospace Forces? Well, there are also prototypes of the Su-57 and completed from scratch the Tu-22M3, Tu-160 and the new Il-76 in detail. This is approaching half a thousand brand new cars like that. And helicopters don't count? The modernization of aircraft equipment in the Russian Federation is also massive. So who's the slack here?

[Normann]

Some people get weak in their heads, they do not notice the obvious (

[venik]

Be healthy Dimitri!
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Quote: hrych

Our videoconferencing is getting weaker from year to year,

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Well, of course they are weakening ..... In the minds of the "ukropatriots" and the home-grown "liberal-shitcrats" ......
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Quote: hrych

The modernization of aircraft equipment in the Russian Federation is also massive. So who's the slack here?

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Everything is true! Only is it worth "throwing beads in front of the swee ..." Sorry! Front:

Well them! Let them remain in "blissful ignorance" !!!
And we will gradually re-arm ourselves ...

[hrych]

Hello Voldemar! In addition to airplanes, it would be nice to count missiles. So our layered air defense is a tough nut to crack. It is also not bad to dig into doctrines. Their aviation is the basis, and we have, of course, all kinds of missiles. We are going to work with the same aviation without entering the enemy's air defense zone, and preferably not leaving our own. Our RCs, BRs, etc. should enter this zone.

Quote: venik

Only is it worth "throwing beads in front of the ...

Enlightenment is sacred

[Yaroslav Zhigulin]

It's a shame
At comparable costs
The Russian Federation has a full-fledged nuclear triad
The ground forces and the Aerospace Forces and the fleet which is in no way inferior to the small British.

[Kushka]

SHAME is a good word in some Slavic languages.
Indicates ATTENTION!
For example a poster by the road:
A SHAME
POLICE STEEP.
those. Attention, the police are watching (monitoring)

[Ros 56]

Oh, how, I thought cats are more specialists in mice, but here we are even talking about weapons.

[Normann]

Of course the sixth, why not the seventh? When the air defense of a potential enemy is not a bow and arrow.

[TermNachTer]

I absolutely agree with you))) why Britons need "typhoons"?)))) Wright brothers' airplanes are perfect))) if they write off cars whose resource is not developed by 60%, then there are good reasons for that, just outsiders will not sound them ...

[alch3mist]

The Typhoon first flew in 1994

Either the skis do not go, or I ...
I remember back in the 70s in the magazine "Aerospace International" there was such an advertisement for this typhoon, such beautiful pictures ... That is, it was riveted for so long then? And have you advertised for at least 20 years?
Yes, the Su-75 is just precocious!

[Tsoy]

That is, it was riveted for so long then? And have you advertised for at least 20 years?

The ATF program from which the F-22 was born started in the 80s, the appearance of the prototypes was presented in the early 90s. The raptor went into series only in 2005-6.
The F-35 was designed in the 90s, flew in the mid-XNUMXs and only now has been in series for several years. And then in the shallow.
Airplanes get more complex with each generation, so 20 years of development is already the norm.

[Alf]

Quote: Choi

in the series. And then in the shallow.

Well, 690 boards are somehow not very small.

[Tsoy]

Well, 690 boards are somehow not very small.

12-14 new planes are rolled out of the factory every month

Compared to what is planned at the start of full-scale production, this is really just the beginning.

[voyaka uh]

"The F-35 was designed in the 90s, flew in the mid-XNUMXs and only now for several years as in the series. And then in small" ///
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Small, small ...
Every month 12-14 new aircraft are rolled out of the factory.

[tralflot1832]

It looks like this Typhoon in the photo "makes us nervous", followed by the Romanian Mig 21. Airbase in Romania. So Eurofighter has already flown over Ukraine, that's enough. He died and died.

[Ros 56]

Do they really want to make an adjustment to Ukrainians. Even so, what's the point, well, they'll be enough for 15-20 minutes and ...... ???

[Antokha]

Modernization of aircraft to the modern level was recognized as inexpedient due to the high cost.

It does not fit in my head how it should be designed so that later it will not be able to modernize. Maybe we have more corruption of specific individuals who have stuck to the state, but in the collective West, there is clearly more corrupt monopoly dictatorship of producers. In a normal scenario, modernization is incorporated into the product life cycle, its parameters are taken into account in the design. In short, the notorious modernization potential.

[OgnennyiKotik]

Confusing concepts. They write about the high cost, not the impossibility. The new F-35A costs $ 78 million (£ 56 million), the F-35B $ 101,3 million (£ 74,3 million). Accordingly, if the cost of modernization is somehow comparable to a new aircraft, why upgrade? And Tranche 1 is 1998, Tranche 4 is 2020, the difference between them is enormous. You need to change almost everything except the fuselage.

Quote: Anton

Maybe we have more corruption of specific individuals who have stuck to the state

And we write off all the junk in the same way. The "first" and even the "second" MiG-29/31 and Su-27 were cut on needles back in the 30s. Su-27 (Su-2010UB) began to be delivered only in XNUMX and are already going for modernization.

[Alf]

Quote: OgnennyiKotik

The "first" and even the "second" MiG-29/31 and Su-27 were cut on needles back in the XNUMXs.

Then they cut not from old age, but from stupidity.

Quote: OgnennyiKotik

Su-30 (Su-27UB) began to be delivered only in 2010 and are already going for modernization.

10 years normal cycle, it's time for modernization.

[Kushka]

An American correspondent in the USSR, seeing the crowd on the corner, asked the translator,
what is there. "The shoes were thrown out" was the answer. I went and looked - "We also throw this out"

[Alf]

Quote: Anton

It does not fit in my head how it should be designed so that later it will not be able to modernize.

But this is you in vain. I'll tell you a short story.
In the early 60s, Britain adopted the supersonic interceptor LHC Lightning. The car was new and sophisticated enough. The first batch of 19 vehicles entered service with the RAF, but differed in that this batch did not have a single vehicle with the same components, all were different. Pilot batch. After 10 years, all 19 boards were written off precisely because they were piece goods and the price of standardization-modernization was found unacceptable.

[Alf]

Quote: Alf

In the early 60s, the supersonic interceptor LHC Lightning was adopted in Britain.

[Kushka]

Shaw, like ours - on the Muscovites, the piston is bored for the last repair and the Zhiguli
Checkpoint put? Or will the Rover be thrown into a landfill in 4-5 years?

[Normann]

Ukraine is not wasting time, the wunderwaffe will be selling here ...

[Irek]

They will write off and sell to Skotomazepia at the price of a new one.