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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Eurofighter Typhoon to get advanced radar contract by year-end

Airborne Solutions E-CAPTOR Eurofighter E-Scan RadarA contract to develop an advanced form of radar for the four nation-backed Eurofighter Typhoon jet should be signed later this year, Eurofighter’s CEO said, raising hopes that the fighter could secure further orders.

Radar issues contributed to the Eurofighter consortium losing out on a $20 billion deal to sell 126 jets to India in 2012 and experts have said that equipping the new radar system to the fighters would help sell more of them.

The consortium of Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain, have funded the initial development of the advanced radar, called E-scan, but a new contract is needed to ready the product so it can start to be fitted onto the fighter jets.

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