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cent, and Germany the remainder. The aircraft's fly-by-wire, computerised innards have cost £65 million, funded 65 per cent by Britain, about 30 per cent by Germany, and 5 per cent by Italy. At present the aircraft is not equipped with a radar or weapon systems, but the integration of both during flight trials is a possibility. The EAP is not a prototype for the four- nation Eurofighter planned by Britain, Italy, Spain, and West Germany, BAe stressed last week. But it is hoped that the lessons learnt through EAP, Britain's first pure fighter for nearly 30 years, will be more than a little relevant to Eurofighter. But Mr. Younger's confidence that the four-nation EFA programme was on schedule is not shared by all representa tives of Eurofighter GmbH, the company now established to build the aircraft. One spokesman says that a delay of up to nine months is now a distinct possi bility, with funding unlikely to clear the Bundestag until after the West German Federal elections in January. But a mockup of Eurofighter will be on show at the Hanover Air Show in early June. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 26 April 1986 11
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