The Euroradar consortium is hoping its Captor-E active electron- ically scanned array radar (CAESAR) could fly aboard a Eurofighter Typhoon for the first time late this year, depending on aircraft availability. Discussions are under way with Eurofighter International on potential timings, says Dr Elmar Compans, senior vice-president sensors and product support at EADS Defence Electronics.
"The date is not yet fixed," he says, but trials are likely to use one of the existing Typhoon test aircraft based at EADS’s Manching facility near Munich. "The discussion is all about getting slots."
The proposed Eurofighter trials would follow an initial flight test programme of a three-quarter-scale Captor-E prototype using a modified BAC One-Eleven in the UK earlier this year. This involved 50 radar runs conducted across seven sorties. "The antenna and the whole radar operated successfully for over 20h with no failure, which is remarkable for a prototype," says Compans. The trials included two dedicated co-operative targets and commercial aircraft in adjacent airspace.
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