The manufacturer "Typhoon" confirmed the presence of aircraft manufacturing defects

The manufacturing company Eurofighter Typhoon confirmed the presence of a defect in their products after one of the fighters at an airfield in Estonia fell off an external fuel tank, transfers RIA News message "France Press".

The incident with the fuel tank occurred at the base of Emari near Tallinn on Friday. As reported, "the aircraft was taxiing on the runway and the external fuel tank fell off." According to the representative of the German Air Force Roman Ladenko, "the aircraft was stopped, and the necessary checks are currently underway."

And on Wednesday, at the head office of the manufacturer, located in Germany, confirmed the "discrepancy between the four holes in the back of the fuselage." At the same time, company spokesman Theodore Benyen said that this "does not affect the safety of aircraft sent to our customers."

According to the German press, the German Air Force abandoned the use of external tanks. This circumstance, according to Ladenko, “is a problem, because without external tanks our fighters have insufficient flight range to fly over the Baltic Sea.” Because of this, "the operation of tanks will continue with the aircraft that protect the airspace of the Baltic countries," he added.

Comments

[Penetrator]

..this "does not affect the safety of aircraft sent to our customers."

It doesn’t affect aircraft safety, yes. But for civilians, the prospect of getting a suspended tank on the head is a dubious pleasure ..

[Baikonur]

Cool! What? Now, like the automakers will begin to recall their vehicles ?!

In general, it’s funny to me: once upon a time Toyota started demonstratively, massively recalling its cars with a discovered manufacturing defect. It would seem, in Russian, there should be a distrust of the company!
But! These spanked marketers turned things around like a company cares about its customers, it loves them!

And - it began! There is almost no carmaker not showing such concern!

Quite frankly - Marriage of production is a concern for customer safety !!!

That's really, truly - through the looking glass! (A. Pimanov ave. "Man and the Law")

[Good me]

Quote: Baikonur

Cool! What? Now, like the automakers will begin to recall their vehicles ?!

Yeah, right now, the Americans will find in them, some fraud with the on-board computer, for the consumption of kerosene

[DarthVedro]

Western recalls, Range Rover, for example, received a "bugfix"

[Good me]

Quote: Penetrator

It doesn’t affect aircraft safety, yes. But for civilians, the prospect of getting a suspended tank on the head is a dubious pleasure ..

Long indignant civilians of the countries included in the axis of NATO? I have not heard of such ...

More precisely, there were some attempts to bind, at the Bulgarians, when brave American pilots dropped PTB over their fields ...

But not for long ...

[tongilguk]

And it is one thing when the fuel tank crashes, and another when there is a bomb suspended instead of a fuel tank.

[bocsman]

Quote: Penetrator

..this "does not affect the safety of aircraft sent to our customers."

It doesn’t affect aircraft safety, yes. But for civilians, the prospect of getting a suspended tank on the head is a dubious pleasure ..

Or maybe these very peaceful citizens will start after such a fall the head to include who they are and what they are protecting from!
And I would like to receive clarifications from the manufacturer. Is this aircraft not suitable for tanks or tanks for aircraft? And then referred to some four holes and cho ?!

[your1970]

How can a falling off fuel tank not influence ???? From 1,5 tons of kerosene ???? At a speed of 200-300-400 km / h (did not find the takeoff speed) on the tarmac of the airfield ?? This is not even a prerequisite, this is the purest " Flight accident ". Usually flights on this type are stopped until they are eliminated on ALL planes, but here it is like "Guys, a trifle, don't pay attention, fly on." And the representative of the German Air Force-Ukrainian.
I wouldn’t be in the place of the Balts in such situations, it’s not like flying — I would be afraid to come closer to him 500 m, ideally in the field, roll higher and let them stand ...

"The fuel is placed in the fuselage, keel and wing in protected tanks. On the central and a pair of underwing external suspension units there are outboard fuel tanks with a capacity of 1500 liters and 1000 liters, respectively. The fighter also has a system for refueling in flight."

[A-Sim]

Selling a template for 4 holes. Inexpensive!

[jjj]

Probably better to say - a conductor for 4 holes. And so, as we see, the Germans are also able to light

[Good me]

Quote: A-Sim

Selling a template for 4 holes. Inexpensive!

Quote: jjj

Probably better to say - a conductor for 4 holes

Still, the "template break" looks more presentable than the "conductor break"

[Mikhail m]

Standard technical information. Deficiencies will eliminate and continue to operate.

[Good me]

Quote: Mikhail M

Standard technical information. Deficiencies will eliminate and continue to operate.

Yes, of course it would be nothing if Eurofighter was a novelty, just adopted.

But he flies for a long time ...

[Engineer]

mismatch of four holes in the rear of the fuselage

And what have the tanks to do with it? She is hung under the wing?

[Alexander 3]

Let them fly on a clothesline around the airfield.

[Wedmak]

Damn, how so? ))) European quality? In general, no matter how you look at NATO aircraft, everyone flies with tanks. Are there really so few internal volumes?

[Sivan]

And you look at ours in Syria - they also fly with PTB.

[Lt. Air Force stock]

Quote: SIvan

And you look at ours in Syria - they also fly with PTB.

Our aircraft do not have conformal fuel tanks, which is why they fly with outboard ones. And all sorts of F-15 and F-16 past the conformal fuel tanks (which were invented in order to unload the suspension points for armaments), as a rule, have two more outboard ones.

[Sivan]

And why? It turns out that Western aviation flies long distances on average?

[vovanpain]

So these are not our problems, and it is not for us to eliminate them.

[Turbo rabbit]

Did the Estas think they would get new cars? Get stuff that even your pilots won't fly. And the problems with this stuff are already yours. This is US policy. Three or four months ago, the Italians were yelling that they were being given 20 cars, whose resources were about to run out. And about the "Baltic Tigers", in general, you can keep silent, who really where are they headed?

[DIVAN SOLDIER]

There was still not enough to the mayor of Tallinn to drop the tank on his head.

[queen]

According to the representative of the German Air Force Roman Ladenko
And there they are.

[evil partisan]

confirmed the "mismatch of the four holes in the rear of the fuselage"

And how then at the plant bolts were screwed into these holes?
Is it really a sledgehammer ??

[Chills]

Lol For the Germans, this is a shame.

[Frigate]

According to German Air Force spokesman Roman Ladenko, “The aircraft has been stopped and the necessary checks are being carried out.”


So why be surprised.
The representative of the German Air Force seems like a crest.

[V.ic]

Quote: Frigate

The representative of the German Air Force seems like a crest.

Mabut garni lad on dill public relations?

[Frigate]

Quote: V.ic

Mabut garni lad on dill public relations?

Probably Benya put him there.

[Uncle lee]

Do you think the holes do not match the holes?

[leo3972]

We stole and forgot to modify the file

[Flinky]

European quality, cho.

[ivan bogomolov]

Mercedes, FolstvagOny, Audi, also recalled, but it is not a fact that the cars are bad, I would like to discuss a serious topic.

[roskot]

Granny had no concern. I bought a Typhoon. Now, if the Typhoon flies, the granny hides in the cellar.

[Pacifist]

Interesting name is the representative of the German air force
And the fact that Vandervafly has problems is only better for us. The radius is smaller, scary to maneuver.
Less will interfere in the sky.

[Bator]

Guys! Fell off, duck fell off. My father told me that when he served as a carrier at the airport near Rostov-on-Don (in the year 60), the pilots themselves dumped tanks with the remnants of fuel not reaching the airfield (and preferably in one place) by agreement with the local population. And Dad went to pick up the moonshine.

[roskot]

And how then at the plant bolts were screwed into these holes? sad
Is it really a sledgehammer ??

We collected tractors like that, and why they can’t ???

[Reptiloid]

P-rrrrrrrr-Ibalts got what they need.

[Oberon 1]

Well, someone wrote that it was our planes made with an ax ... but vice versa !!

[gukoyan]

It's amazing how they still fly and don't fall apart?

[kizhe]

Let the condoms be poured. They are of high quality among the Germans.

[pavelty]

Everything ... Estonia is in danger, out of 4 units, one is under repair, and the other has hanging tanks falling off, there are only two left ... panic

[Angara]

Set up, damn it, Pepelats without gravitsap!

[pvv113]

German Air Force abandoned the use of external tanks

The Germans knew about this shortcoming and therefore sent planes to Estonia

[pvv113]

And on the same topic from another source

[marder4]

PPC, otherwise you can’t say ... what will begin to fall off on them further?

[Hikar]

it is necessary to express the MID * concern * junk flying near our borders

[Gormenghast]

It would be nice if this tank hit any Russophobe on the head.

mismatch of four holes in the back

Oh love the Caucasians holes in the back.

[region 23]

Not for nothing that the Estonian authorities recently called on their citizens to be extremely attentive during the training of NATO aircraft in the country.

[sergeyzzz]

The presence of defective aircraft from our "partners" is very pleasing, with massive use of combat losses will begin right at the airfield

[inpu]

Yes, this is not Lada.

[seregatara1969]

reminiscent of the adventure movie "big races"