Towed Radar Decoy On The Typhoon.

[Pure Pursuit]

Quite right.

I'll ask them to leave the chaff & flares at home too.

[LowObservable]

Not sure that this mob assault on the original poster is justified. After all, we all know that there's a big gap between what you'll find in the obvious places (MoD or BAE websites) and what is actually classified, so if anyone could point the guy in the general direction of some unclass information...

I will say that I was at a conference not long ago where it was observed (a little smugly) by an EF guy that they had at least put the TRD in the right place, an observation confirmed by a Super Hornet guy who was clearly wondering which Sparky had decided to put the Rhino TRD cable next to the jet exhausts.

[FlightTester]

I will say that I was at a conference not long ago where it was observed (a little smugly) by an EF guy that they had at least put the TRD in the right place, an observation confirmed by a Super Hornet guy who was clearly wondering which Sparky had decided to put the Rhino TRD cable next to the jet exhausts.

Well you can sort of see where they were going by putting the cable along the aircraft xcg (F18), rather than putting it way out on the ycg (EF) - 100m cable, big mass weight on the end, rolling scissors, etc. But, no in hindsight extending a kevlar cable out behind the exhausts probably isn't going to work very well!

[barnstormer1968]

Tiffy, I'll help you, even if no-one else will

Basically the idea of a towed radar decoy looks good on paper, but in a combat situation it cannot be operated on any British aircraft in the UK.

You seem to be aware of many of the Typhoons capabilities, and thus I'm sure you will be well aware of it's stall speed. Now if we compare the Typhoons minimum airspeed before departure (stalling) to that of the maximum towing speed in the UK (60mph), you will instantly see a serious flaw!

The method I think we will actually employ is very similar to the concept the Americans will use (for decoying) with JSF. We will just sell a lower spec version of Typhoon to some of our allies and let them soak up any incoming missiles first.

Barnstormer1968

OK OK it's only banter, but to be serious, it's great to see that you actually have real pride in British equipment and want to find out as much as you can about what we use/will use. BUT, as you have already realised, even if each reply even gave one word of truth about TRD's then some nasty fellow somewhere would just sit and read until he had all the info he needed to destroy any advantage we may have..

[BEagle]

From what I recall from the excellent EWO course I did 15 years ago, fitting a TRD to every FW military air platform which might venture close to sausage-side is a Very Good Thing if the opposition have anything more modern than sharpened guava halves with which to threaten!

I'm not sure whether it would feasible on a RW platform and am not going to ask!

[chris_tivver]

It's a long piece of of tinsel with fairy lights on.

Thanks God you didn't say what colour the fairy lights are. Can't go giving the frequency info away

As to original OP, I can provide you with all the info you are looking for by e-mail.

However I will need to confirm that you are authorised to receive all this information first. Essentially I need to confirm you are a Brit, so just so that I can confirm this over the internet: Please PM me with your

passport number
Number of an account held at a British bank
Number of a UK credit card
Company employing you
Salary and pay-day

Oh and as a final check, the PIN number for all your credit and debit cards.

Thanks

[VinRouge]

He doesnt have to; all you have to do is buy a second hand computer off ebay and get millions of uk citizens details free with the computer