The Eurofighter Typhoon is much more of a 5th-Generation fighter than the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning-II. That's the refrain of an article in the latest edition of Eurofighter's magazine Eurofighter World. Suggesting that the "generation sequence and headings used by Lockheed-Martin for fighters are generally shared by the defence community", the piece goes on to point out that "these classifications are truly too rigid and schematic to have any credibility, in the sense that a fighter such as the Eurofighter Typhoon exhibits all the qualities of a 5th generation fighter with the exception of full spectrum stealthiness (VLO) but is well above the legacy 4th generation platforms in all other measures of performance." Eurofighter says the US "uses and sometimes abuses" the generations issue.
By: Brant
The JSF can easily become the worlds largest distributer of Eurofighter parts. Although the Typhoon is more agile, a F-35 with AIM-9X and JHMC does not need to move to get a shot. All that must move is the pilot's head. The Euros are have put a great deal of misplaced faith into a toy from the 1980s. Even the SU-30 MKI would be almost no contest, as the MKI possess superior BVR missiles and radar. It would be wiser for the Euros to adopt either the F-35, or develop a gen 5 fighter of there own.
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