The carbon fiber has infinite fatigue life, but the resin does not. The high stiffness of the carbon fiber takes a lot of the stresses, so that the resin is a lot less loaded and can last nearly forever.
@@gbornitz yes this is true but when you are designing aircraft the trivialities between a fatigue life of a billion cycles and two billion cycles means that they are considered to have an infinite fatigue life as long as there is no mechanical damage to the structure. So we never did fatigue because it is not a required assessment for certification.
@@FG42 maybe true in an oversimplified, strongly controlled and well funded engineering environment - compared to classical aircraft industry alloys, might not be that much of an issue. But have a look into sailing magazines - a lot of well known yacht builders have been failing with multiple designs based on composites.
@@alexdunphy3716 Indeed. Fiberglass alone is what is used for bulletproofing many public offices, such as banks, along with the protective glass windows.
Different kind of composite, the term composite in composite armour simply means that it is comprised of various different materials like ceramics and different metals, rather than just one solid steel plate
@@yukionna1649 not different actually. Fiberglass is a type of "composite material" in the same sense that M7* is referring to AS WELL AS one of the materials that make up "composite armor arrays".
@@yukionna1649 No, actually it's both. Layered armor can be considered composite, as it behaves as one in certain conditions. Minor point, but also true that the latest armor uses composites directly as one or more of the layers.
Great video. New developments from Su-57 and stealth technology. I think it still deserves more videos despite how much you've spent on it. The haters still can't handle that you're just reporting on information but the majority of us appreciate what you're doing being accurate and informative. Thank you!
An additional advantage of composite material is that they do not reflect radar waves like aluminium does.... I thought it was worth mentioning. Overall a great presentation of one of the most beautiful fighter jets currently in production, in my humble opinion! ;-)
That can actually be a disadvantage as for something like a wing leading edge rather than reflecting off an oblique surface for aluminium skin, it'll pass straight through a composite skin and reflect off of the flat faced if the wing span instead giving a much higher return
Bravo,well worth the wait, Im looking forward to the next installment, I have a few pictures of the EAP flying, it's original proportions didn't look as satisfying as the eventual Eurofighter but it's nice to know that it was a pioneer in proving "plastic" structures. In theory a future non leaky SR-71 equivalent could be designed in appropriate epoxy composites.
not really possible, the temperatures at Mach 3.6 of the SR-71 are too high. That thing is a really crazy design, on the soviet side the MiG-31 somewhat compareable, as it was designed to be capable of intercepting the SR-71. That was 1975, and it is still one of the most capable things in the ruzzian fleet.
I love this channel for the superb presentation of information, sometimes complex. And the humour. Well done, How about telling us a bit more about yourself and professional background?
Amazin video! I'll really like so see a video dedicated to structural design in planes in general. Is a very interesting and important topic often not discussed as aerodynamics or radar cross section, and I think this is probably the only channel that pays attention to it. You mentioned this before in other videos, as for the structural design on the S-57 regarding the stress that needs to withstand because thrust vectoring and unorthodox maneuverability, the difference with the S-27 and other planes than where not design on origin for that feature and so on. You made a point on showing things that are not showed in other places, and I can say this channel is not a complement but a must to understand all kind of things in aviation technology.
Given that one of the best fighter/bombers in WWII, the DeHaviland Mosquito, was made out of wood it is not surprising that people would be looking for various alternatives to metal in aircraft construction.
@@oddy1637 they're just about testing them right now. Spain and Germany are buying a different one from Hensoldt and those are getting delivered in 2025
I think many Cinese companies bought luxury brands in Milan to be near Italy high-tech defence contractors for non-fashion involuntary technology transfer related reasons, deduced from Milan being an early Covid cluster infection in Europe.
Many of sensitive defense technology is leaking from Italy and Germany to China and Turkey. People of europe must look into this. For eg. Italian Griffo radar has been leaked to China via Pakistan. Similarly many PGMs and electronics for Turkish drones comes from Germany and repackaged with Turkish name.
@@slmyatt I think you're waaaaaaaaaay overthinking this with a pinch of a conspiracy theory (source: i live in Milan). China just likes to enact this modern form of imperialism where it takes indirect control of.. basically most civilian production, so that we are more dependent on them.
This has left me wondering what the Tempest will be like. The EJ-20x engines are already 20% more powerful and 30% is the aim. They also use less fuel for a given amount of thrust. The Tempest is also targeted to be 10% lighter dry weight. I also heard a rumour that the service ceiling is going to be increased by 3000 meters. If that happens then some modern missiles will not be able to intercept them as the aircraft launchine will make the amount of climb needed too much.
The canard foreplane is made of pure titanium which is made in a revolutionary process. You may have been talking about the prototype but, trust me, I know I am correct. Not sure where you got your information.
I don't know exactly thermal expansion for composites is also anisotropic, but it is enough that machinists shops and assembly floors need to be temperature controlled, so that a part that was 1.250 meters long in the Italian summer can fit to a part that was 1.250 meters long in Germany in the winter.
Precision costs. The more precisely a dimension is specified, the more costly it is to produce. The overall length of the Eurofighter at any point will depend on the temperature of the materials.
Typhoon is the result of great feats of aeronautical engineering. On a side note contrary to popular belief of the general public, pilots and military people satellite navigation is not used at all for any commercial, private or military jets or helicopters in any country in the world today
Seams contribute to an aircraft's RCS, so another benefit of super-tight tolerances is reducing RCS. Ideally one would have no seams at all, but short of that the next best thing is making them as small and as consistent as possible. There is some absolutely wild work being done on materials that allow seamless control surfaces, eg. instead of flaps, the trailing edge of the wing just bends.
it is easier to move the whole control surface, see F-22. Flaps, different story, not sure how much it benefits as they are only required at low speed flight.
@@JonMartinYXD It is mixed, I just checked again. The vertical stabilizers are split, like traditionally, but the horizontal stabilizers are one piece and the complete surface deflects. I have seen it last August in Slovakia on an airshow, 50m from me :-) pilot was moving the horizontals, then slowly rolling, turning in small radius, after that afterburner takeoff and simulated run on airfield - breathtaking. The first two MiG-29 they prepared for Ukraine also had their farewell flights 👋 - I had the feeling of seeing a moment of history happening.
@@spxram4793 The all moving horizontal stabilizers are called stabilators (or sometimes tailerons if they can be moved in opposite directions to help roll the aircraft). Or at least that's what we call them today. Back in 1950 when the technology first started being used on jets (F-86E) it was called an "all-flying tail". It was actually used on early WW1 fighters but they were very twitchy so it fell out of favour until flight controls evolved past cables and pulleys, and jets got fast enough that traditional stabilizers were not effective.
Calculation of stesses in composites required transfomation matrices to the direction of the fibers. I imagine even double weave layers need to be arranged strategically. Still its amazing how carbon fiber is used in so many applications these days.
these are anyway complex composites with layers, where the fibers point in different directions. It is only cost which prevents them to replace aluminium - they're far better. Only problem is high temperatures above ~2M. That's why the MiG-31 has titanium alloys in critical places., for example.
I have worked with composites in my past job, usually stupid decoration stuff made of fiberglass and polyester but occasionally we had the chance to help these graduate students for prototyping, had the pleasure to work on notoriously self heating epoxy resin and also carbon fiber a couple of times... and I hate kevlar, it doesn't get under your skin as carbon does but it's a pain to cut to shape... overall composites are an interesting engineering subject, tho working with them is bad for your health on the long run...
The Quatari A350 have been suffering of "first version" and higher than expected amounts of heat and UV standing around in Quatar. There were design limitations between the stretching of the paint and the composites. The newer paint soves this.
hemp reinforce polymeres have their place, but certainly not for fighter jets and in aerospace in general not for load bearing structures. The thing with Cabon fibre composites is that they provide an extremly good tensile strenght to weight ratio and weight is a major factor in any aerospace application. Weight kills perfomance and efficiency of an aircraft. So your goal is to build an airframe with as little material as necessary to provide the required strength. Carbon fibre can provide that at the moment like no other material. hemp rp is ok when the leading factor to ask for is light and cheap. In a fighter aircraft you will always go for light and strong.
I am curious, is it possible to engineer composites to have diffraction gratings as an option to maintenance-free radar stealth? It works fabulously on fibre Bragg gratings for optical applications, should be the same no matter the wavelength....
Love the EF but I think it's already a bit outdated. No stealth, some electronic warfare equipment is still not included and costs are quite high in comparison to the Gripen for example. In fact it is one of the most expensive aircraft per flight hour, which is very disapointing...
A typical design of the 70ies. The F-18 variants are quite a bit better overall, the French designs from the same time are not as good. The EF designers had too much money, the Swedish had to be more cost effective, so at the end the Gripen is better for the typical role in Europe today. The original EF started out as a hypersonic bomber interceptor, which the Gripen is not.
Well. This aircraft was only part of patrol over the Baltic Sea, otherwise. no combat. So it was actually a right decision to not spend the money back then.
Thank you for your great work, for a future video, perhaps a talk about the implications for NATOs flying artillery in a ground war with a peer competitor. I have been wondering how NATO air will be able to provide support to the ground forces in a contested air environment. I am a bit worried that the ground component of long range fires has been neglected in favour of air support.
Nice! I'm looking forward on more Typhoon videos in the future. Am I correct in thinking that the latest tranche for the RAF is spearheading technologies for the joint UK-Italy-Japan fighter program?
Now-a-days top of the range bicycles are made of really good carbon fibre and they cost thousands and perform amazingly good, but then you also get very cheap carbon fibre bikes which are to be avoided.
The EF will go down in history as one of the most under rated aircraft in history. Speak to any F15 pilot. Before EF, it would take a gifted pilot to beat a regular pilot in an F15. In EF even a regular pilot can beat a gifted pilot in an F15. And before all the Yanks go, F22, F35 rarara. Consider the probable opposition of the EF.
really? I need to invest a bit into research. F-15E is not that bad .If I had anything to add 🙄, I'd equip Ukraine with F-15E. We'd have to send them love letters to prevent them from taking Murmansk and Vladivostok 🤣 Pootin would hide in a toilet.
Yes and no, If you have the tooling and trained personal in your factory it does not make any difference if they are making two left wings a week, or a left and a right one. Does it make sense to spread out production in general? Probably not from an efficiency point, but as this is a joint project, everyone want's a part of production to subsidize their aviation industry. It can also be cheaper in a weird way, every Euro that gets spend on a countries territory comes back somewhat, partly in taxes and partly by providing work for a lot of people that now don't have to rely on government aid, the paper price will be more expensive, but the bottom line for the participating countries can be slightly smaller.
@@kilianortmann9979 Yes, that's something people often forget to consider. The guys building these things also pay taxes. The company building these things pay taxes. Also, you create a highly skilled workforce, which can transfer knowledge to other companies or even other industries in your own country. It's hard to measure such things as monetary value. I would say it's more appropiate to look at it as a long term investment to vitalize certain industry branches.
A secondary purpose of the EAP was to show the UK government that we (the UK) still had the expertise to build a COMPLETE aircraft, and the fact that they had not yet succeeded in killing off the industry totally.
@@Rehunauris After 1 sec search: Cruise speed: 7,408-8,643 km/h (4,603-5,371 mph, 4,000-4,667 kn) Mach 6 to Mach 7. Why are people so bad at researching nowadays?
Why, @7:15, are you using a picture of the JAS-39 to illustrate the Eurofighter? I mean, they look kind of similar, but when talking about details of the construction, it's kinda confusing to see a completely different plane?!
Because he compares the traditional main spar connecting both wings, like in the Gripen, with the Eurofighters construction of radiating spars and not interconnected wings.
structurally the eurofighter progressed further in the learning curve then what was done with the f35. the only significant advancement with the f35 was its method of combining fused sensor data. the exterior panels on the f35 used data gathered by the eurofigher/other known engineered solutions to gain structural integrity. apparently learning structure and kinematic performance is cheaper than updating software capability. does anyone wonder why LM is so dead set against allowing IP transfer of software?...right to repair/update is greatly effected by lack of IP transfer.
10% reduction in structural weight is a result of very conservative designs chosen to deal with poor analysis methods available in the 90's. In practice those composite structures are much stronger than the aluminum ones. On bicycles and cars, the lightest CFRP frames can be made about 50% lighter than the lightest Aluminum.
No, it's expensive because it's produced in relative small numbers but has expensive high end components integrated. The IRST sensor you can see for example on the british typhoons was way ahead of its time. US fighters just now got something comparable with the legion pod.
@@shi01 but only british typhoons have AESA radar,spanish,german and italian ones are with electromechanical,also cockpit and engine,avionics are made in UK,but as i ve seen its usually man made,robots make wings and airframe in spain,italy and germany.BTW currently typhoon is most expensive fighter
The nuances here are fascinating…regarding the titanic submersible that imploded after several dives, it was constructed of carbon fiber and steel - how do the forces of say a loaded wing compare with the crushing pressure of the deep. They made it maybe 12,000 feet. I’m sure longitudinal force, or parallel v perpendicular force is irrelevant here. It seems this submersible’s designers didn’t account for basic physics, or else their pleas were ignored. I’m trying to decide if typhoon is very underrated, highly overrated. I’m sure this is the place to to evaluate it.
He has at least one video on Tejas and it was quite positive in assessment. But there are no Tejas derivatives in service yet to provide an accurate analysis of them. Perhaps when Tejas Mk1A are delivered it would be worth revisiting it with another video.
@@stupidburp I know, mate, There is now a Naval LCA, which IN might take up as carrier trainers, ditching the Mig-29Ks and Mk1A and MkII in pipeline with AMCA. With CDR done for MkII, it will be great if we can get much more in - detail review and analysis.
These short unrelated clips inbetween are annoying. High quality, but for example why showing someone rubbing the shoulder while talking of stiffness of an aircraft?
I will never un-see the F-16 hidden inside the Eurofighter. Don't get me wrong, the Eurofighter and F-16 do very different missions arnd are bery different aircraft. I just think the Eurofighter looks just like dad
They're just from about the same decade. There is lots of comms about design & experience within NATO. Only the French have to build something different 🤣
Yes I have, done the coatings, and coatings crack. . . There should be a separate boneyard for plastic jets. More stuff to recycle. PS: sing to me the song of Alenia’s Precision. 🤣
My understanding from when I did work on this sort of stuff was that composites were considered to have infinite fatigue life.
Yes, almost. Albeit at the time they weren't sure
The carbon fiber has infinite fatigue life, but the resin does not. The high stiffness of the carbon fiber takes a lot of the stresses, so that the resin is a lot less loaded and can last nearly forever.
@@gbornitz yes this is true but when you are designing aircraft the trivialities between a fatigue life of a billion cycles and two billion cycles means that they are considered to have an infinite fatigue life as long as there is no mechanical damage to the structure. So we never did fatigue because it is not a required assessment for certification.
@@FG42 maybe true in an oversimplified, strongly controlled and well funded engineering environment - compared to classical aircraft industry alloys, might not be that much of an issue. But have a look into sailing magazines - a lot of well known yacht builders have been failing with multiple designs based on composites.
this depends a lot on details. UD cfrp loaded longitudinally at 0 does.
Even the armor on some of the latest US tanks uses composites. Fascinating stuff.
Tanks have used composites for 50 years or so. Some of the earliest composite armor was basically fiberglass plates
@@alexdunphy3716 Indeed. Fiberglass alone is what is used for bulletproofing many public offices, such as banks, along with the protective glass windows.
Different kind of composite, the term composite in composite armour simply means that it is comprised of various different materials like ceramics and different metals, rather than just one solid steel plate
@@yukionna1649 not different actually. Fiberglass is a type of "composite material" in the same sense that M7* is referring to AS WELL AS one of the materials that make up "composite armor arrays".
@@yukionna1649 No, actually it's both. Layered armor can be considered composite, as it behaves as one in certain conditions. Minor point, but also true that the latest armor uses composites directly as one or more of the layers.
It's good to see you healthy and animated, professor!
Great video. New developments from Su-57 and stealth technology. I think it still deserves more videos despite how much you've spent on it. The haters still can't handle that you're just reporting on information but the majority of us appreciate what you're doing being accurate and informative. Thank you!
Another spot on video on a modern combat jet. The structure analysis is very interesting, very well presented and like anything available on youtube
An additional advantage of composite material is that they do not reflect radar waves like aluminium does.... I thought it was worth mentioning.
Overall a great presentation of one of the most beautiful fighter jets currently in production, in my humble opinion! ;-)
depends on the composite type, carbon fiber also reflects radar
That can actually be a disadvantage as for something like a wing leading edge rather than reflecting off an oblique surface for aluminium skin, it'll pass straight through a composite skin and reflect off of the flat faced if the wing span instead giving a much higher return
do composite materials reduce the ability of planes to weather lightning storms?
@@ozan1234561 Not as much as metalls.
It will still reflect electromagnetic radiation but not to the same degree as metals.
Bravo,well worth the wait, Im looking forward to the next installment, I have a few pictures of the EAP flying, it's original proportions didn't look as satisfying as the eventual Eurofighter but it's nice to know that it was a pioneer in proving "plastic" structures. In theory a future non leaky SR-71 equivalent could be designed in appropriate epoxy composites.
NO
not really possible, the temperatures at Mach 3.6 of the SR-71 are too high. That thing is a really crazy design, on the soviet side the MiG-31 somewhat compareable, as it was designed to be capable of intercepting the SR-71. That was 1975, and it is still one of the most capable things in the ruzzian fleet.
I love this channel for the superb presentation of information, sometimes complex.
And the humour.
Well done,
How about telling us a bit more about yourself and professional background?
“Rule of Thumb” girl was very nice - thanks! 😂
I could feel your relief at the end when you finally measured precisely.
Amazin video!
I'll really like so see a video dedicated to structural design in planes in general. Is a very interesting and important topic often not discussed as aerodynamics or radar cross section, and I think this is probably the only channel that pays attention to it.
You mentioned this before in other videos, as for the structural design on the S-57 regarding the stress that needs to withstand because thrust vectoring and unorthodox maneuverability, the difference with the S-27 and other planes than where not design on origin for that feature and so on.
You made a point on showing things that are not showed in other places, and I can say this channel is not a complement but a must to understand all kind of things in aviation technology.
Given that one of the best fighter/bombers in WWII, the DeHaviland Mosquito, was made out of wood it is not surprising that people would be looking for various alternatives to metal in aircraft construction.
Carbon fibre had been used for in major fighter aircraft structures well before this. The Harrier AV8B had carbon fibre prepreg wings.
Britain is getting new AESA for eurofighter from leonardo
Still didn't get those?
@@oddy1637 they're just about testing them right now. Spain and Germany are buying a different one from Hensoldt and those are getting delivered in 2025
I think many Cinese companies bought luxury brands in Milan to be near Italy high-tech defence contractors for non-fashion involuntary technology transfer related reasons, deduced from Milan being an early Covid cluster infection in Europe.
Many of sensitive defense technology is leaking from Italy and Germany to China and Turkey.
People of europe must look into this.
For eg. Italian Griffo radar has been leaked to China via Pakistan.
Similarly many PGMs and electronics for Turkish drones comes from Germany and repackaged with Turkish name.
@@slmyatt I think you're waaaaaaaaaay overthinking this with a pinch of a conspiracy theory (source: i live in Milan). China just likes to enact this modern form of imperialism where it takes indirect control of.. basically most civilian production, so that we are more dependent on them.
Tejas is composite as well
Conclusion from this video? Otis will soon put a Eurofighter in the garden because there is enough space.🙂
This has left me wondering what the Tempest will be like. The EJ-20x engines are already 20% more powerful and 30% is the aim. They also use less fuel for a given amount of thrust. The Tempest is also targeted to be 10% lighter dry weight. I also heard a rumour that the service ceiling is going to be increased by 3000 meters. If that happens then some modern missiles will not be able to intercept them as the aircraft launchine will make the amount of climb needed too much.
The canard foreplane is made of pure titanium which is made in a revolutionary process. You may have been talking about the prototype but, trust me, I know I am correct. Not sure where you got your information.
Interesting video. Thank you.
You look more elegant. Did you loose same takeoff weight?
How much does the length vary with temperature?
I don't know exactly thermal expansion for composites is also anisotropic, but it is enough that machinists shops and assembly floors need to be temperature controlled, so that a part that was 1.250 meters long in the Italian summer can fit to a part that was 1.250 meters long in Germany in the winter.
Precision costs. The more precisely a dimension is specified, the more costly it is to produce. The overall length of the Eurofighter at any point will depend on the temperature of the materials.
Typhoon is the result of great feats of aeronautical engineering. On a side note contrary to popular belief of the general public, pilots and military people satellite navigation is not used at all for any commercial, private or military jets or helicopters in any country in the world today
Seams contribute to an aircraft's RCS, so another benefit of super-tight tolerances is reducing RCS. Ideally one would have no seams at all, but short of that the next best thing is making them as small and as consistent as possible. There is some absolutely wild work being done on materials that allow seamless control surfaces, eg. instead of flaps, the trailing edge of the wing just bends.
it is easier to move the whole control surface, see F-22. Flaps, different story, not sure how much it benefits as they are only required at low speed flight.
@@spxram4793 I'm not sure what you mean. The F-22 has standard fighter jet control surfaces.
@@JonMartinYXD It is mixed, I just checked again. The vertical stabilizers are split, like traditionally, but the horizontal stabilizers are one piece and the complete surface deflects.
I have seen it last August in Slovakia on an airshow, 50m from me :-) pilot was moving the horizontals, then slowly rolling, turning in small radius, after that afterburner takeoff and simulated run on airfield - breathtaking.
The first two MiG-29 they prepared for Ukraine also had their farewell flights 👋 - I had the feeling of seeing a moment of history happening.
@@spxram4793 The all moving horizontal stabilizers are called stabilators (or sometimes tailerons if they can be moved in opposite directions to help roll the aircraft). Or at least that's what we call them today. Back in 1950 when the technology first started being used on jets (F-86E) it was called an "all-flying tail". It was actually used on early WW1 fighters but they were very twitchy so it fell out of favour until flight controls evolved past cables and pulleys, and jets got fast enough that traditional stabilizers were not effective.
Calculation of stesses in composites required transfomation matrices to the direction of the fibers. I imagine even double weave layers need to be arranged strategically. Still its amazing how carbon fiber is used in so many applications these days.
these are anyway complex composites with layers, where the fibers point in different directions. It is only cost which prevents them to replace aluminium - they're far better. Only problem is high temperatures above ~2M. That's why the MiG-31 has titanium alloys in critical places., for example.
thx for the video! may be a dedicated one to the Typhoon ECR? would it make sense to replace the Tornado ECR?
Now how do you add conformal fuel tanks.
I have worked with composites in my past job, usually stupid decoration stuff made of fiberglass and polyester but occasionally we had the chance to help these graduate students for prototyping, had the pleasure to work on notoriously self heating epoxy resin and also carbon fiber a couple of times... and I hate kevlar, it doesn't get under your skin as carbon does but it's a pain to cut to shape... overall composites are an interesting engineering subject, tho working with them is bad for your health on the long run...
With the paint on composite issue with A350, just wondering did they solve the paint on composites issue on this fighter?
sure. No paint 🤣
The Quatari A350 have been suffering of "first version" and higher than expected amounts of heat and UV standing around in Quatar.
There were design limitations between the stretching of the paint and the composites. The newer paint soves this.
interesting video ---- certainly robo could measure your backyard within .01 mm.
What do you think about using hemp alloys for fighter jets and generally aerospace?Henry Ford used that on model T prooved durable than metal
Great for cannabis growers
hemp reinforce polymeres have their place, but certainly not for fighter jets and in aerospace in general not for load bearing structures. The thing with Cabon fibre composites is that they provide an extremly good tensile strenght to weight ratio and weight is a major factor in any aerospace application. Weight kills perfomance and efficiency of an aircraft. So your goal is to build an airframe with as little material as necessary to provide the required strength. Carbon fibre can provide that at the moment like no other material. hemp rp is ok when the leading factor to ask for is light and cheap. In a fighter aircraft you will always go for light and strong.
I am curious, is it possible to engineer composites to have diffraction gratings as an option to maintenance-free radar stealth?
It works fabulously on fibre Bragg gratings for optical applications, should be the same no matter the wavelength....
as long as you don't expect it to also be structural, I would expect that's pretty close to what the F-35 has.
Best one yet👍.
Eurofighter Typhoon is made of Typhoon winds
Another excellent video.
Love the EF but I think it's already a bit outdated. No stealth, some electronic warfare equipment is still not included and costs are quite high in comparison to the Gripen for example. In fact it is one of the most expensive aircraft per flight hour, which is very disapointing...
A typical design of the 70ies. The F-18 variants are quite a bit better overall, the French designs from the same time are not as good. The EF designers had too much money, the Swedish had to be more cost effective, so at the end the Gripen is better for the typical role in Europe today. The original EF started out as a hypersonic bomber interceptor, which the Gripen is not.
Yet another informative video.
The fact that the eurofighter is just now getting an aesa is suprising and some what disappointing.
Well. This aircraft was only part of patrol over the Baltic Sea, otherwise. no combat. So it was actually a right decision to not spend the money back then.
So is the F 18 and super 18 .
A 1mm tolerance is easy if you have the right measuring equipment
yeah. Now add in temperature as a factor ...
Those Bosch laser measure has a error tolerance of 2 to 3mm. So we still don't know if the garden challenge was completed correctly or otherwise 😂
Ssssh! That was supposed to be a secret!
Thank you for your great work, for a future video, perhaps a talk about the implications for NATOs flying artillery in a ground war with a peer competitor. I have been wondering how NATO air will be able to provide support to the ground forces in a contested air environment. I am a bit worried that the ground component of long range fires has been neglected in favour of air support.
I'd say that this capability is with terrain following cruise missiles and things like Reaper MQ-9.
Bring back that ending music!
Nice! I'm looking forward on more Typhoon videos in the future. Am I correct in thinking that the latest tranche for the RAF is spearheading technologies for the joint UK-Italy-Japan fighter program?
Plastic ? air... plane ? 😮😮 ... 😵
How do composite materials fare againts radar ? :)
Sweden build stealth ships out of carbon fiber materials, so pretty good.
-Visby Class Corvettes
A tape measure is way more accurate than a laser distance gauge
Adding to the Algorithm!😊
4:37 wow😳
British Aerospace used to be such a big aircraft manufacturer.
yes. But lately, not successful.
Now-a-days top of the range bicycles are made of really good carbon fibre and they cost thousands and perform amazingly good, but then you also get very cheap carbon fibre bikes which are to be avoided.
they need to have a proper multi-layer design with the fibers pointing in different directions. The El Cheapos don't look after that.
do you think that carbon is a good material for bikes?
it is, but not from cheap manufacturers.
The EF will go down in history as one of the most under rated aircraft in history. Speak to any F15 pilot. Before EF, it would take a gifted pilot to beat a regular pilot in an F15. In EF even a regular pilot can beat a gifted pilot in an F15. And before all the Yanks go, F22, F35 rarara. Consider the probable opposition of the EF.
Spanish German and British pilots had demonstrated that the EF is a beast of a fighter
really? I need to invest a bit into research. F-15E is not that bad .If I had anything to add 🙄, I'd equip Ukraine with F-15E. We'd have to send them love letters to prevent them from taking Murmansk and Vladivostok 🤣 Pootin would hide in a toilet.
ok one wing in one country and other wing in other... i mean... does it make sense?
Yes and no, If you have the tooling and trained personal in your factory it does not make any difference if they are making two left wings a week, or a left and a right one.
Does it make sense to spread out production in general? Probably not from an efficiency point, but as this is a joint project, everyone want's a part of production to subsidize their aviation industry.
It can also be cheaper in a weird way, every Euro that gets spend on a countries territory comes back somewhat, partly in taxes and partly by providing work for a lot of people that now don't have to rely on government aid, the paper price will be more expensive, but the bottom line for the participating countries can be slightly smaller.
@@kilianortmann9979 Yes, that's something people often forget to consider. The guys building these things also pay taxes. The company building these things pay taxes. Also, you create a highly skilled workforce, which can transfer knowledge to other companies or even other industries in your own country. It's hard to measure such things as monetary value. I would say it's more appropiate to look at it as a long term investment to vitalize certain industry branches.
A secondary purpose of the EAP was to show the UK government that we (the UK) still had the expertise to build a COMPLETE aircraft, and the fact that they had not yet succeeded in killing off the industry totally.
Is there any company other than BAE that the Brits can give contract to?
Hey there Millennium! Just a quick recommendation for you to watch:
Leaked Chinese Hypersonic Drone Will Change Naval Warfare: WZ-8
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Cruise speed: 7,408-8,643 km/h (4,603-5,371 mph, 4,000-4,667 kn) Mach 6 to Mach 7.
Why are people so bad at researching nowadays?
Why, @7:15, are you using a picture of the JAS-39 to illustrate the Eurofighter? I mean, they look kind of similar, but when talking about details of the construction, it's kinda confusing to see a completely different plane?!
Because he compares the traditional main spar connecting both wings, like in the Gripen, with the Eurofighters construction of radiating spars and not interconnected wings.
I don't understand why u did not ask Ottis to measure the distance, IT would have done a better job.....
structurally the eurofighter progressed further in the learning curve then what was done with the f35. the only significant advancement with the f35 was its method of combining fused sensor data.
the exterior panels on the f35 used data gathered by the eurofigher/other known engineered solutions to gain structural integrity. apparently learning structure and kinematic performance is cheaper than updating software capability.
does anyone wonder why LM is so dead set against allowing IP transfer of software?...right to repair/update is greatly effected by lack of IP transfer.
They called it the Typhoon because "Tupperjaeger" wasn't butch enough.
10% reduction in structural weight is a result of very conservative designs chosen to deal with poor analysis methods available in the 90's. In practice those composite structures are much stronger than the aluminum ones. On bicycles and cars, the lightest CFRP frames can be made about 50% lighter than the lightest Aluminum.
ET's are made of these
Who am I to disagree?
Flying the world and the seven seas
Everybody's patrolling for something
Some of them want to fly you
Some of them want to get flown by you
Some of them want to shoot you
Some of them want to get shot by you!
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Hey is typhoon expensive because most parts are man made,not by machines,such as cockpit and engine
No, it's expensive because it's produced in relative small numbers but has expensive high end components integrated.
The IRST sensor you can see for example on the british typhoons was way ahead of its time. US fighters just now got something comparable with the legion pod.
@@shi01 but only british typhoons have AESA radar,spanish,german and italian ones are with electromechanical,also cockpit and engine,avionics are made in UK,but as i ve seen its usually man made,robots make wings and airframe in spain,italy and germany.BTW currently typhoon is most expensive fighter
1:1 plastic model. can fly and fire missile.
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The nuances here are fascinating…regarding the titanic submersible that imploded after several dives, it was constructed of carbon fiber and steel - how do the forces of say a loaded wing compare with the crushing pressure of the deep. They made it maybe 12,000 feet. I’m sure longitudinal force, or parallel v perpendicular force is irrelevant here. It seems this submersible’s designers didn’t account for basic physics, or else their pleas were ignored. I’m trying to decide if typhoon is very underrated, highly overrated. I’m sure this is the place to to evaluate it.
Hope to see videos soon on LCA Tajes and its variants with new things happening on the platform, if so, that will be spectacular.
He has at least one video on Tejas and it was quite positive in assessment. But there are no Tejas derivatives in service yet to provide an accurate analysis of them. Perhaps when Tejas Mk1A are delivered it would be worth revisiting it with another video.
@@stupidburp I know, mate, There is now a Naval LCA, which IN might take up as carrier trainers, ditching the Mig-29Ks and Mk1A and MkII in pipeline with AMCA.
With CDR done for MkII, it will be great if we can get much more in - detail review and analysis.
These short unrelated clips inbetween are annoying. High quality, but for example why showing someone rubbing the shoulder while talking of stiffness of an aircraft?
I like them - it add a bit of fun to the content
I will never un-see the F-16 hidden inside the Eurofighter. Don't get me wrong, the Eurofighter and F-16 do very different missions arnd are bery different aircraft. I just think the Eurofighter looks just like dad
They're just from about the same decade. There is lots of comms about design & experience within NATO. Only the French have to build something different 🤣
Achilles Heel of CFRP: Carbon fiber’s ability to wick fluids, and oh, hydraulic fluid melts the stuff. . .
You can coat the resins with materials making them both fluid tight and oil impervious.
Don't forget sunlight.
Yes I have, done the coatings, and coatings crack. . . There should be a separate boneyard for plastic jets. More stuff to recycle. PS: sing to me the song of Alenia’s Precision. 🤣
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Simplify and add lightness
Nah, not as simple as that.
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Just don't make a deeeeeeep sea submersible out of CF. Maybe now is a good time to make a video on CF submersibles.
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Um gripen com 2 motores!
i did not like this one as much as your normal videos
Ahhhhhh high tech composites have nothing to do with ordinary plastic
lmao but I thought PET is 9G ready!