Selex Deal Will Put AESA Radars on RAF Typhoons

The Royal Air Force could be test flying an active electronically scanned array radar on a Typhoon fighter within three years following a deal between the British Ministry of Defence and Selex Galileo to develop and build the key new sensor as part of a technology demonstrator program.

Selex Galileo, an arm of Italian-based Finmeccanica, has signed a 19 million pound ($29.8 million) contract with the MoD to lead a demonstrator program likely to run for up to five years as the British look to de-risk the technology ahead of a likely fielding on Eurofighter-built Typhoons, said an MoD source.

The Brits, who are looking beyond the Eurofighter program, want to use the knowledge gained from the demonstrator to to feed technical insertions beyond the next decade.

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