Overview:[]
The Euro-Fighter-2000 Naval Edition Hurricane II is a modified naval version of the EF-2000 Typhoon. The Euro-Fighter would operate from carriers on a Short Take-Off but Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) basis, using a 'ski jump' ramp for aircraft launch and arresting gear for conventional landing.
The modifications required for the EF-2000NE to do this are a new, stronger landing gear, a modified arrestor hook, localized strengthening on some fuselage sections near the landing gear and the introduction of a thrust-vectored variant of the Eurojet EJ200 engine.
General Characteristics:[]
- Crew: 1
- Length: 15.96 m
- Wingspan: 10.95 m
- Height: 5.28 m
- Wing area: 51.2 m2
- Empty weight: 11,650 kg
- Loaded weight: 16,500 kg
- Max takeoff weight: 23,000 kg
- Powerplant: 2 × Eurojet EJ200TVN afterburning turbofan with thrust vectoring nozzles
- Dry thrust: 60 kN each
- Thrust with afterburner: 90 kN each
- Fuel capacity: 4,000 kg internal
Performance:[]
- Maximum speed: Mach 2.1
- At sea level: Mach 1.2
- Supercruise: Mach 1.1–1.5
- Range: 2,900 km
- Ground attack, lo-lo-lo: 601 km
- Ground attack, hi-lo-hi: 1,389 km
- Air defence with 3-hr combat air patrol: 185 km
- Air defence with 10-min. loiter: 1,389 km
- Ferry range: 3,790 km
- Service ceiling: 19,810 m
- Rate of climb: >315 m/s
- Wing loading: 312 kg/m2
- Thrust/weight: 1.15
- g-limits: +10 g
Armament:[]
- Guns: 1 × 27 mm Mauser BK-27 Revolver cannon with 150 rounds
- Hardpoints: Total of 12: 8 × under-wing; and 4 × under-fuselage pylon stations; holding up to 7,000 kg of payload.
Missiles:[]
Air-to-Air missiles:[]
- AIM-9 Sidewinder
- AIM-132 ASRAAM
- AIM-120 AMRAAM
- IRIS-T
- MBDA Meteor
Air-to-Surface missiles:[]
- AGM-65 Maverick
- AGM-88 HARM
- Storm Shadow (AKA Scalp EG)
- Brimstone
- Taurus KEPD 350
- Penguin
- AGM Armiger
Bombs:[]
- 500lb Paveway IV
- Paveway II/III/Enhanced Paveway series of laser-guided bombs (LGBs)
- Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)
- HOPE/HOSBO
Others:[]
- Flares/Infrared decoys dispenser pod
- Chaff pods
- Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) pods
- LITENING III laser targeting pod
- Up to 2 drop tanks for ferry flight or extended range/loitering time.
Avionics:[]
- Euroradar CAPTOR Radar
- Passive Infra-Red Airborne Tracking Equipment (PIRATE)