BAE Systems will continue to service and support the
Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft’s avionics for the platform’s founding nations’ air forces in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Italy, for the next five years. The agreements, worth £80 million, secure ongoing service and repairs for key avionics equipment such as displays, flight controls, and ‘Helmet Mounted Displays’, thereby ensuring that the Typhoon is ‘ready for deployment at all times’.
Jim Whittington, BAE Systems’ senior project manager at the company’s UK facility in Rochester, said: “BAE Systems’ avionics service and support team helps our customers ensure that Typhoon is ready to secure our skies and support the UK’s international allies 24/7, 365 days a year. The flexibility within these services will help increase our customers’ flying capability, whereby we can meet any additional service demands.”
Avionics service and support is a core focus for BAE Systems’ facility in Rochester. The integrated team based at RAF Coningsby is embedded into the ‘Typhoon Total Availability Enterprise’ contract, and they work closely to troubleshoot and undertake repairs, with their guaranteed turnround times allowing the customer to accurately plan aircraft operations.
Eurofighter is Europe’s largest defence programme. It secures more than 100,000 jobs in Europe and, at present, 681 Eurofighter aircraft have been sold to nine nations.