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Eurofighter Tranche 4 Offers New Tech and Retrofit Capabilities

The quest for Eurofighter relevance until the European next-gen fighter programs enter production keeps partners busy upgrading systems for retrofit.

Eurofighter — Upgrades to the electronics of the latest-model Eurofighter will help ensure its continued utility into the second half of this century.(Photo: UK MOD Crown)

By Reuben F. Johnson

June 16, 2023

In an effort to maintain the Eurofighter’s relevance to the air combat environment until the German-French FCAS and the Italy-Japan-UK GCAP/Tempest enter production, program partners have kept busy upgrading onboard systems for retrofit. The upgrades, which will come as part of the configuration for new-build aircraft for Germany, will first appear on existing aircraft in the UK and among the other partners.

Last year, the original Eurofighter partner nations laid plans to upgrade some of the Tranche 3 aircraft in their collective inventories and—in the case of Germany and Spain—procure a new, Tranche 4 batch of aircraft. The Royal Air Force (RAF) upgrades of its current aircraft call for an almost $3 billion replacement of the older-generation electronic systems with state-of-the-art hardware.

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