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The EUROFIGHTER weapon system is foreseeable to be a supporting pillar of the German manned fighter aircraft fleet and will be a key German contribution to the FCAS. According to the current plan, the influx of aircraft will be completed in 2018. The EUROFIGHTER weapon system is an essential capability of the Bundeswehr for securing the sovereignty of the national airspace (QRA (I)) and in the fight against the enemy air war potential in the air.
In order to be able to ensure the task of QRA (I) and the instruction and training flight operations in addition to the fulfillment of the international operational obligations, it is expedient to use tranche 1 until the end of the economically sensible usability in the context of operational needs.
With the integration of the GBU-48the EUROFIGHTER [Tranche 2 and Tranche 3A] gains an initial qualification in the fight against the opposing potential on the ground and thus has a first effector for multi-role capability.
Building on this, a further increase in the capabilities of EUROFIGHTER tranches 2 and 3A is to be provided. This increase in capabilities is primarily to be coordinated with the EUROFIGHTER partner nations and aimed at on the basis of the common configuration standard. Here is the improvement of the air / ground capability (including integration of additional effectors such as a driven short-range effector until 2020 and a medium-range effector from 2020), the improvements in command and control equipment and, in conjunction with the TORNADO weapon system, a contribution to the tasks of suppressing enemy air defense (SEAD) and surface sea warfare from the air (ASuW). An integration of specialized effectors for these roles in the EUROFIGHTER is not to be expected before 2025, the decision on this must be considered in the context of the developments towards the NextGenWS.
The EUROFIGHTER weapon system is thus to be oriented towards the expansion of multi-role capability . For this purpose, the integration of new sensors is planned (AESA radar, LDP with reconnaissance component).
To maintain the capabilities of the EUROFIGHTER in the long term, among other things for use as one of the supporting pillars in the FCAS well beyond the year 2040, a useful life of tranches 2 / 3A of more than 25 years can be assumed. To this end, over the next two years, together with the partner nations, considerations and studies on the technical implementation options of a MidLife Upgrade (MLU) or a service life extension (Life Extension Program LEP) to maintain operational capability (e.g. through obsolescence management, adaptation of the avionics to the future state of technology) ) and to employ or initiate the associated costs.The future use of the multinational NextGenWS as a complementary platform to the EUROFIGHTER in the FCAS must also be taken into account. In the short and medium term, with a view to the current EUROFIGHTER project phase, the program must be increasingly multinationalized in order to further promote the group of users for further development and operation in order to realize economies of scale and to secure technologies and industrial capacities. To this end, the BMVg will support potential partners in getting started.
With the conversion of the TORNADO weapon system to ASSTA 313, the basis for maintaining the operational capability of the weapon system has been created.With the ability to regrowth of the weapon system Eurofighter, the future focus for the weapon system Tornado will be the ability for SEAD and the use of heavy weapons (eg GBU-24 and MAW TAURUS) [ The integration of an extensive air / ground armament (such as modular distance weapon (MAW ) TAURUS) on EUROFIGHTER is therefore currently not planned. ].
According to current planning, the use of the TORNADO weapon system is set to run until the mid-twenties. In order to guarantee the necessary time for the possible development and procurement of a successor system while maintaining the qualitative range of capabilities in the context of FCAS, a longer use by extending existing flight hour resources or extending the useful life of the weapon system up to the mid-thirties is currently being investigated. The technological risks and the profitability of these options are currently being examined under the aspect of risk minimization. A decision is expected to be made in 2016.
The TORNADO is with the guided missile (LFK) AGM-88B HARM Block III A (HARM) the main carrier of the SEAD capability. Among other things, this no longer fulfills the requirements for target setting mechanisms and intelligent final phase control to improve the probability of a hit.
Depending on the decision to extend the service life of TORNADO, a decision must be made about the introduction of a successor solution that is suitable for combating ground-based LV systems under current conditions.