The F was developed due to a requirement for a new air superiority fighter by the US Air force, but was also later ordered as a replacement for the f eagle. A single F Raptor was destroyed in one of its early trials by an in flight hydraulic failure at a cost of over 1billion US dollars. Nevertheless, it is currently the only viable air superiority fighter and interceptor in service with the US Air force. Some of the similarities between the Eurofighter Typhoon and F Raptor are that both are stealth aircraft and can achieve super cruise up to mach 1.
The Eurofighter Typhoon has an integrated avionics systems for better situational awareness, and the Eurofighter Typhoon is twin engine while F Raptor has single engine. The Typhoon and F have comparable radar signature. Both aircraft also have in common that they both serve as multi-role fighters. The Eurofighter Typhoon can haul more fuel, which increases its range and combat radius. This is especially advantageous because the Eurofighter Typhoon has a twin engine, while the F is single engine.
The Typhoon is an agile and super maneuverable aircraft. Many have claimed that many Typhoons will be necessary to take down an F Raptor based on combat simulations, but Typhoon is currently out of production and has been cancelled for a long time if not permanently. They were expected to be retired then and replaced by the F Lightning II. Several of the Australian Hornets have had refits applied to extend their service lives until the planned retirement date of Noise abatement regulations halted supersonic flight by civil aircraft over U.
Sonic booms due to large supersonic aircraft can be particularly loud and startling, tend to awaken people, and may cause minor damage to some structures. They led to prohibition of routine supersonic flight over land. Numerous pressure waves combine together to form a single shock wave. They have the ability to move faster than the speed of sound.
The constant expansion and contraction of air can cause a shock wave that sounds like a loud clap to human ears. This is why a sonic boom can be so loud. Eventually it would all depend on, where these two wold meet. If 1 on 1 in neutral airspace. The typhoon has its fighting chance. If a whole flight of Raptors meets a flight of Typhoons, the Raptors will eat their advisories for breakfast.
RCS of typhoon from all angles but frontal is so high, that the raptors would have launched missiles, before the typhoons even know, the raptors are around. If typhoons have to penetrate F22 airspace, the outcome is even worse for the typhoons.
If the raptors receive enemy location and targeting information from awacs or ground radar, Typhoon is lost. To maintain just the stealth of the raptor alone, is so costly and time consuming, that the typhoon is the better plane after all.
It is an awesome a2a fighter with good low observability and sophisticated a2g capabilities. It is expensive though cheap compared to the raptor , but maintainable, if an Air Force sees the need an is willing to pay for and maintain it. While the raptor is hardly maintainable, even for the USAF.
And only through sacrificing numbers and pilot training to such an extend, that it is questionable how valuable the F22 fleet would be, in a real future conflict. America is becoming overly dependent on advanced electronic warefare. China and Russia will develop directed energy weapons to use against our flying computers that will render them utterly helpless. Our aircraft will be made to simply fall from the sky or flail uncontrollably until easily picked off.
Sometimes simplicity will dominate complexity. Our leadership is overly confident on technology.
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