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The Typhoon DVI system utilises a Speech Recognition Module (SRM), developed by Smiths Aerospace (now GE Aviation Systems) and the then Computing Devices (now General Dynamics UK). It was the first production DVI system utilised in a military cockpit. DVI provides the pilot with an additional natural mode of command and control over approximately 26 non-critical cockpit functions, to reduce pilot workload, improve aircraft safety, and expand mission capabilities.
What are some of these non-critical critical cockpit functions?
The Typhoon DVI system utilises a Speech Recognition Module (SRM), developed by Smiths Aerospace (now GE Aviation Systems) and the then Computing Devices (now General Dynamics UK). It was the first production DVI system utilised in a military cockpit. DVI provides the pilot with an additional natural mode of command and control over approximately 26 non-critical cockpit functions, to reduce pilot workload, improve aircraft safety, and expand mission capabilities.
What are some of these non-critical critical cockpit functions?
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Having searched hard, for abot 2 seconds, and come up with:
Eurofighter Typhoon - Direct Voice Input (DVI)
We find that:
Eurofighter Typhoon - Direct Voice Input (DVI)
We find that:
DVI allows the pilot to activate non-safety critical moding and data entry functions as an alternative to using manual methods.
Options include:
Options include:
- Manual data entry
- Multi-Function Head Down Display (MHDD) selection and manipulation
- Radio selection and navigation route manipulation
- Target selection
- Target allocation to formation members
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Without giving away anything - DVI provides an intuitive interface with the aircraft. As you correctly point out it takes away most of the knob twiddling and button pushing. I did the flight test on it back in 2003ish. It's analogous to using voice commands on my cell phone or in the car.
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Very good idea this DVI business...Telling the Typhoon to kill something, at least it won't hesitate.
"Target allocation to formation members".
That'd come in pretty handy too.
Do any other aircraft have this system? I guess the F22 does....Does it not?
"Target allocation to formation members".
That'd come in pretty handy too.
Do any other aircraft have this system? I guess the F22 does....Does it not?
It does not.
Lockheed looked hard at the EF DVI for F-22 but the USAF would not fund it.
Nor does the F-22 have a helmet, an IRST, or a decent HOBS missile, and it will be some time before it can share its sensor picture with anything but another F-22, since it lacks a decent datalink.
Lockheed looked hard at the EF DVI for F-22 but the USAF would not fund it.
Nor does the F-22 have a helmet, an IRST, or a decent HOBS missile, and it will be some time before it can share its sensor picture with anything but another F-22, since it lacks a decent datalink.
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Lockheed looked hard at the EF DVI for F-22 but the USAF would not fund it.
Nor does the F-22 have a helmet, an IRST, or a decent HOBS missile, and it will be some time before it can share its sensor picture with anything but another F-22, since it lacks a decent datalink.
Nor does the F-22 have a helmet, an IRST, or a decent HOBS missile, and it will be some time before it can share its sensor picture with anything but another F-22, since it lacks a decent datalink.
Could it be that Typhoon, rather being than the expensive white elephant that we've all been told it is, IS in fact on the cutting edge of capability?
And in fact, quite a decent bit of kit.
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Jackonicko, helmet mounted sights you mean?
I knew the F22 didn't have IRST HOBS missile etc.....I'd thought it'd have DVI at least!!! Can't think why they wouldn't want to fund it.....It's a canny system. Makes work for the pilot alot easier.
Would've thought the F22 had those little gizmos, especialy when they seem to think it's the jack of all trades at a silly high price.
Ah well....Tiffy has them, thats good enough for me.
I knew the F22 didn't have IRST HOBS missile etc.....I'd thought it'd have DVI at least!!! Can't think why they wouldn't want to fund it.....It's a canny system. Makes work for the pilot alot easier.
Would've thought the F22 had those little gizmos, especialy when they seem to think it's the jack of all trades at a silly high price.
Ah well....Tiffy has them, thats good enough for me.
Typhoon helmet is due any time. Partz and his chums have been flying it for some time.
Lockheed say that the F-22 helmet is indefinitely delayed, because they "can't map the cockpit."
So yes, the Typhoon does have some toys that the F-22 doesn't.
But the F-22 has all aspect Stealth. Thrust vectoring. Better supercruise. AESA.
Lockheed say that the F-22 helmet is indefinitely delayed, because they "can't map the cockpit."
So yes, the Typhoon does have some toys that the F-22 doesn't.
But the F-22 has all aspect Stealth. Thrust vectoring. Better supercruise. AESA.
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Why is everyone always surprised at the capability of the Typhoon? Ask anyone who's flown it (in any role) and they won't have a bad word to say about it. There's lots of criticism / lack of knowledge / interest in the ac from within the RAF making us by far our harshest critics/cynics....maybe this is healthy.....maybe this makes us our own worst enemy.
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Upon power up it says....
" Welcome to Eurofighter Typhoon, I am your state of the art ride for today and I am RAF Production number 20 of our planned force of 250...err 249...err 232..."
"Weapons check now in progress, please standby....whilst i try to locate if I have a gun fitted......"
Or in the best Catch 22 moment....
Pilot " Aircraft.... Guns Guns Guns"
Aircraft "Congratualtions you have just been awarded 4 shares in M & M enterprises"
" Welcome to Eurofighter Typhoon, I am your state of the art ride for today and I am RAF Production number 20 of our planned force of 250...err 249...err 232..."
"Weapons check now in progress, please standby....whilst i try to locate if I have a gun fitted......"
Or in the best Catch 22 moment....
Pilot " Aircraft.... Guns Guns Guns"
Aircraft "Congratualtions you have just been awarded 4 shares in M & M enterprises"
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I'm not surprised the Typhoon has these gizmos, I'm just surprised that the F-22 doesn't. Yes the F-22 has "Stealth", thrust vectoring, AESA, but the Typhoon will get AESA too, along with Meteor which will make Typhoon more potent that it is now. Stealth? Not really needed if you have stand off weapons, Storm Shadow, Meteor etc. Not sure about thrust vectoring though? I think that'd be one of, if not, the last things Typhoon gets as a upgrade, I'd like to see that happen at some point, but the consortium seem more interested in getting AESA, Meteor, A/G & something else I may have missed than TV right now, have to wait & see.
I've never read, heard or whatever any pilot thats flown the Typhoon say anything bad about it, they've always been mightily impressed by it. People that criticize it are just critics that know nothing about aviation or fan-boys that moan about it, call it a "fraud" because it waxed their favourite aeroplane....They call it a "fraud" but they never say why. At the end of the day, pilots that fly it know better than anyone else.
Personally I think it's a great piece of kit =)
I've never read, heard or whatever any pilot thats flown the Typhoon say anything bad about it, they've always been mightily impressed by it. People that criticize it are just critics that know nothing about aviation or fan-boys that moan about it, call it a "fraud" because it waxed their favourite aeroplane....They call it a "fraud" but they never say why. At the end of the day, pilots that fly it know better than anyone else.
Personally I think it's a great piece of kit =)
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I seem to remember that there are at least a couple of TV EJ200's floating around the test empire somewhere.
Stealth - adds a huge amount of complexity. Now both the Raptor and the Typhoon are first look, first shoot, first kill aircraft which means they need to have some degree of stealthy ability but generally only in the head-on aspect. Once you're into the knife fight in a phonebox, stealth doesn't offer any advantage.
Stealth - adds a huge amount of complexity. Now both the Raptor and the Typhoon are first look, first shoot, first kill aircraft which means they need to have some degree of stealthy ability but generally only in the head-on aspect. Once you're into the knife fight in a phonebox, stealth doesn't offer any advantage.
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Yeah I remember that too. I remember reading in a 'Air Force Monthly' magazine that the Spanish are interested in TV for their Typhoons, that was some years ago now though, Italians, don't really seem fussed about TV, I guess they're more than happy with what they've got, Germans, heard also that they're interested in TV, I read that some time ago too, British......Only heard about a BAE (Or was it a RAF pilot?) say it's nice for airshows....Thats pretty much it......Of what I've heard/read about anyway.
Time will tell......Kind of hoping they add TV to Typhoon.
"Stealth" is good for some things, but like you say, once you're in a knife fight in a phonebox stealth doesn't offer any advantage. It's as good as useless really. You may be stealthy going into a country but you sure as hell wont be stealthy coming out of it......But it depends on the situation I guess....
And, being close to a target while in "Stealth mode" & not being seen (supposedly) is jolly nice...But being far away from a target with a stand off weapon is better....I believe it is anyway.
Just my opinion, not knocking anything.
Time will tell......Kind of hoping they add TV to Typhoon.
"Stealth" is good for some things, but like you say, once you're in a knife fight in a phonebox stealth doesn't offer any advantage. It's as good as useless really. You may be stealthy going into a country but you sure as hell wont be stealthy coming out of it......But it depends on the situation I guess....
And, being close to a target while in "Stealth mode" & not being seen (supposedly) is jolly nice...But being far away from a target with a stand off weapon is better....I believe it is anyway.
Just my opinion, not knocking anything.
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I think that the whole point about next gen aircraft (and Typhoon 
-only kidding) is that they have enough SA and decent enough weapons to not need TV. This is doubly true if you have stealth and a LPI radar. Its actually far more useful to be in high block 4 doing M1.6 and then be able to pull 4g than it is to be able to do super-duper turns at the merge.
Of course aircraft requirements are written by ex-fighter pilots who remember the old days and younger ones who enjoy BFM far more than that boring BVR stuff. And looking good at airshows is actually a good selling point.
Just wondering why you can't be stealthy on the egress? Agree about the stand-off weapons, though.
-only kidding) is that they have enough SA and decent enough weapons to not need TV. This is doubly true if you have stealth and a LPI radar. Its actually far more useful to be in high block 4 doing M1.6 and then be able to pull 4g than it is to be able to do super-duper turns at the merge.Of course aircraft requirements are written by ex-fighter pilots who remember the old days and younger ones who enjoy BFM far more than that boring BVR stuff. And looking good at airshows is actually a good selling point.
Just wondering why you can't be stealthy on the egress? Agree about the stand-off weapons, though.
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Backwards PLT said;
'Just wondering why you can't be stealthy on the egress?'
Not trying to be smart but i thought about that question too until i thought a bit about it, if, after dropping all my explosive bits onto someone else's gear and breaking it, i think i would want to get out of there quickly = Afterburners! or parts there of.
Happy to be corrected though.
'Just wondering why you can't be stealthy on the egress?'
Not trying to be smart but i thought about that question too until i thought a bit about it, if, after dropping all my explosive bits onto someone else's gear and breaking it, i think i would want to get out of there quickly = Afterburners! or parts there of.
Happy to be corrected though.