EADS has conducted the first test flight of a Eurofighter carrying an active electronically-scanned array (AESA) front end for the aircraft’s Euroradar consortium Captor sensor; a potential key element of further enhancements to the Typhoon during its latter Tranche 2 and Tranche 3 production phases.
EADS’s DA5 development aircraft conducted its first in a series of successful test flights with the Caesar antenna from EADS’s Manching site near Munich on 8 May.
“Completion of this successful flight programme is the culmination of four years cooperative work between the major European radar suppliers and Eurofighter,” says Euroradar partner Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
