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Eurofighter Typhoon

🇪🇸 Spain ·first flew 1994· air superiority fighter with multirole capabilities

🎖️ military 2× jet ✓ still flying
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. RAF Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon F2 Lofting-1: Chris Lofting· GFDL 1.2
  2. 2. Typhoon DA: Hammersfan· CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. Typhoon IPA: Philipp Hayer· CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. 4. Aeronautica Militare Typhoon IRST (27476944291): Sam Wise· CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. 5. Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S MM7286 - 36-02 (cn IS018) Landing @ LIPI with aerobrake displaced (21467992094): Gian Marco Anzellotti from Roma, Italia· CC BY 2.0
  6. 6. Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon T1, UK - Air Force AN0616796: Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation· GFDL 1.2
  7. 7. Eurofighter EF2000 Typhoon ‘C.16-44 - 14-09’ (31480326162): Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
  8. 8. Eurofighter EFA-2000 Typhoon DA1 98+29 Intake DMFO 10June2013 (14563817746): Valder137· CC BY 2.0
  9. 9. Eurofighter Typhoon AUT: Bundesheer (Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport) / Markus Zinner· CC BY-SA 3.0
  10. 10. Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 'ZK356' (35359259191): Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Eurofighter Typhoon, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Chris Lofting· GFDL 1.2

what is it?

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH. The NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency, representing the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain, manages the project and is the prime customer. The aircraft's development began in 1983 with the Future European Fighter Aircraft programme, a multinational collaboration among the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 11 m wingspan

base stats

  • speed 2,495 km/htop speed
  • range 2,900 kmwithout refuelling
  • size 23.5 tmax take-off weight
  • built 926made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

  • First flew 32 years ago, in 1994.
  • Top speed is 19.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • Faster than sound: up to Mach 2.0 (sea-level speed of sound ≈ 1,235 km/h).
  • Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • Range of 2,900 km: 16× Amsterdam to Brussels.
  • Can fly 1.9× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight
1994-03-27
introduced
2003
status
still flying
number built
926
role
air superiority fighter with multirole capabilities
origin
🇪🇸 Spain
makers
Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH
engines
2× Eurojet EJ200
crew
1
length
16 m
wingspan
11 m
height
5.3 m
max take-off weight
23.5 t
top speed
2,495 km/h
range
2,900 km
ceiling
16,764 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q151384, Wikipedia: Eurofighter Typhoon (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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