Jet EADS Eurofighter Typhoon (A EADS
Eurofighter Typhoon jet (Reuters/Michael Buholzer)
WANmahani - Tentera Udara Jerman telah dikesan kerosakan
pembuatan dalam badan kapal Eurofighter Typhoon jet pejuang multirole.
Kementerian Pertahanan mengarahkan jam terbang tahunan bagi setiap pesawat
dikurangkan separuh ke-rana fiuslaj mungkin menjadi tidak stabil.
Kecacatan itu tlh ditemui di bahagian belakang
badan kapal pesawat, memaksa pengumuman penghantaran digantung daripada jet
dipasang di kilang EADS di Manching Jerman, dilaporkan laman web berita Spiegel
Online.
Luftwaffe Jerman juga membuat keputusan utk
mengurangkan masa penerbangan tahunan bagi setiap jet Eurofighter daripada
3,000 kepada 1,500 jam setiap tahun.
Tentera Udara Diraja Britain adalah yg pertama
untuk mengesan kecacatan & juga memilih untuk mengurangkan separuh jam
penerbangan tahunan supaya tidak overstress jet pejuang, berita laman web dikekalkan.
Bagi Jerman, yang dilaporkan mempunyai 109 jet
Eurofighter Typhoon, dan juga untuk Great Britain, ini canggih enjin berkembar
kapal terbang perang adalah pesawat pejuang pertahanan udara utama.
Jet Eurofighter yang dibina oleh sebuah konsortium pembuat pesawat Airbus
Eropah, BAE Systems di Britain dan Itali Finmeccanica.
Sesuatu insiden yg melibatkan Eurofighter Tentera
Udara Sepanyol pd Jun menye-babkan kematian seorang juruterbang berusia 30
tahun, walaupun punca mala-petaka masih belum diumumkan.
Oleh kerana kedua-dua Berlin & London tlh
separuh perintah asal 250 jet pejuang setiap ketua bahagian pertahanan Airbus
mengumumkan bahawa jika tiada kontrak baru, pengeluaran jet Eurofighter Typhoon
boleh dihentikan pada 2018.
Luftwaffe tidak
bersedia untuk konflik bersenjata
Analisis disediakan oleh majalah Der Spiegel pd
Ogos mendedahkan bahawa Ten-tera Udara Jerman mengalami kekurangan pembiayaan
dan kekurangan bahagian, satu kajian yang telah secara konsisten dinafikan oleh
Kementerian Pertahanan.
Namun sebulan kemudian, pada lewat September, Menteri
Pertahanan Jerman Ursula von der Leyen memberitahu Bild am Sonntag bahawa media
outlet Berlin tidak akan pada masa ini dapat menunaikan janji pertahanan untuk
sekutu NATO itu.
Dalam laporan yang sama, majalah Der Spiegel
menyatakan bahawa hanya 24 daripada sejumlah 109 jet Eurofighter Jerman
bersedia untuk perkhidmatan, dan hanya 38 daripada 89 pejuang Tornado boleh
dimasukkan ke dalam udara.
EUROFIGHTER hull
hitch: GERMANY
halves fighter flying HOURS
. . .
The German Air Force has spotted a manufacturing
fault in the hull of Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighter jet. The Defense
Ministry ordered annual flying hours for each aircraft be halved due to the
fuselage possibly becoming unstable.
The defect was discovered in the rear section of the
aircraft’s hull, forcing the announcement of suspended delivery of the jets
assembled at the EADS plant in Germany’s Manching, news website Spiegel Online
reported.
Germany’s Luftwaffe also made a decision to cut annual flight time for
each Eurofighter jet from 3,000 to 1,500 hours annually.
Britain’s Royal Air Force was first to detect the
defect and also opted to halve the annual flight hours so as not to overstress
the fighter jets, the news website maintained.
For Germany, which reportedly possesses 109
Eurofighter Typhoon jets, as well as for Great Britain, this sophisticated
twin-engine warplane is the main air defense fighter aircraft.
The Eurofighter jets are built by a consortium of Europe’s aircraft maker
Airbus, Britain’s BAE Systems and Italy’s Finmeccanica.
An incident involving Spanish Air Force’s
Eurofighter in June resulted in the death of a 30-year-old pilot, although the
cause of the catastrophe has not yet been announced.
Because both Berlin and London have halved the
original order of 250 fighter jets each, the head of Airbus’s defense division
announced that in absence of new contracts, production of the Eurofighter
Typhoon jets could be stopped in 2018.
Luftwaffe not ready
for armed conflict
An analysis prepared by Der Spiegel magazine in
August revealed that the German Air Force is suffering funding shortages and a
lack of parts, a study that was consistently denied by the Ministry of Defense.
Yet a month later, in late September, Germany’s
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told Bild am Sonntag media outlet that
Berlin would not currently be able to keep its defense promises to its NATO
allies.
In a parallel report, Der Spiegel magazine maintained
that only 24 out of a total of 109 German Eurofighter jets were ready for
service, and only 38 out of 89 of Tornado fighters could be put in the air.
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