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Spain will receive in May and July the last two Eurofighters
The Ministry of Defense and Airbus Defence & Space Update the situation of the Eurofighter program
09/04/2019 | Getafe (Madrid)
Airbus will deliver the last two Eurofighter combat fighters for the Air Force in May and July of this year.
Spain, as a partner of the European program,
contracted the acquisition of a lot of 73 units that have been assembled at the European Group's factory in Getafe.
Once The order has been completed, the activity will continue in the Madrid plant with the retrofit process of 17 Eurofighter of the Tranche 1 in service in the Air Force.
The first device has already gone through these facilities and is currently facing a testing campaign with the Logistics and Experimentation Center (CLAEX).
The modernization will introduce in the aerial platforms of the Tranche 1 new equipment of the Tranche 2 and 3
like the Computer Symbol Generator, Digital Video and Voice Recorder, Laser Designator POD or Maintenance Data Panel.
The Head of the Airbus Eurofighter program in Spain, Fernando Fishes,
explained this Monday in a meeting with journalists that the tasks of updating the capacities will continue until the beginning of 2023.
This project will allow to maintain the work in the Final Assembly Line (FAL) of the European hunting in Spain
until the beginning of the integration of the electronic scanning radar or E-scan Radar in the Spanish Eurofighters starting from 2022,
which will imply improvements in
the Detection, attack and identification; SAR modes; Image transmission; Electromagnetic measurements; and integration of intelligent armament.
Fishes explained that the E-scan Radar is a binational program-Spain and Germany
-for the increase of processing and electronic warfare capabilities, which includes the development of national capacities.
New Contract in Spain
In The Spanish case, Airbus also relies on the signing of a new contract for the production of a second lot of Eurofighter.
The Ministry of Defence studies the replacement of its fleet of F-18 from the next decade and, both the Air Force and the department,
have publicly expressed on different occasions that the European plane is the main candidate
for the renewal of the American operative fighters in Gando (Canary Islands), Zaragoza and Madrid.
Defense estimates that the withdrawal of the equipment from the Canary Islands base will take place between 2024 and 2025,
while the end of the services of the F-18 that Actuán in the peninsular bases will arrive on the horizon of 2030.
The Airbus Executive further noted that the Eurofighter will evolve beyond 2025 within the Long Term Evolution (LTE) programme to meet the needs of future operations.
In this case, the company is betting on walking to an aircraft that effectively responds to the threats that are to come and
that is interoperable with other platforms such as the Future Air Combat System (FCAS), whose design is already underway.
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