quoting you, you lying disgrace;

 

all with the sportive Section. No military or Op drops. Classic Aerazur TAP 65-20 circular canopy. Anything i can tell you about that might interest you?

Is there a possilbe stealth version of the EF coming out in the future, something like the silent eagle.  If the eagle can do it at 35 years old, the EF should be able to improve even more.

 

HOw would this change the equation?

 

Excellent thread.

Its possible. You would need to find some way to redesign the tail completely (tailless delta with flapperons for example) and you would need to signal return emission manage the fore-planes and the engine intake, but it is possible. I would wonder why, though, as that is not the way its designed to fly or fight. You would need internal weapon stowage to make the LO effort actually worth it.  

Is it worth it?

Is there a possilbe stealth version of the EF coming out in the future, something like the silent eagle.  If the eagle can do it at 35 years old, the EF should be able to improve even more.

 

HOw would this change the equation?

 

Excellent thread.

Double post somehow..

"is it worth it" - that is an interesting question.  I wonder if the designers have made these design proposals yet. EF is from what i've researched here the closest to F22 for air superiority...  with a new intake, tail design, fore-planes it would get closer, but the huge new belly may slow it right back down.

 

 

"is it worth it" - that is an interesting question.  I wonder if the designers have made these design proposals yet. EF is from what i've researched here the closest to F22 for air superiority...  with a new intake, tail design, fore-planes it would get closer, but the huge new belly may slow it right back down."

 

You are on the right track here.

 

You could redesign the Eurofighter to get rid of its current tail.  You could also give it new intakes, additional RAM and various other upgrades.  The problem is that once you are done with all of that... you will still have an aircraft that while stealthier, is far less stealthy than an F-35. 

 

The only way to come close to an F-35's level of stealth would be to carry all weapons and fuel internally.  That would mean the EF would need to be enlarged quite a bit.

 

By the time you have enlarged a Typhoon to carry weapons and fuel internally... you are going to be dealing with a far larger and heavier aircraft.  Its performance will suffer.  That doesn't mean that they won't try to produce such an aircraft, but there are a lot of trade-offs. 

 

The F-22 and F-35 were designed from the start to carry their fuel and weapons internally and were thus able to be optimized better for that arrangement.