BAE secures through-life service deal for Typhoon

Posted on: Jul. 11th, 2006 || Source: flightglobal.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

BAE Systems is to establish a new national support centre for the Royal Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon strike aircraft under a £100 million ($182 million) UK Ministry of Defence contract with the four-nation Eurofighter consortium.

The company, which performs final assembly of UK Typhoons at its Warton site in Lancashire, will oversee construction of a new facility at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, where the service has three operational squadrons totaling 30 Typhoons. Building will begin later this month and conclude in late 2008.

Once completed, the new centre will provide through-life support to RAF operations of the Typhoon, with a weapons systems support rig for validation of electronic- warfare mission data, system fault analysis and development of new avionics requirements.

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