Trumpeter Eurofighter Typhoon B. Thoughts?

[jgrease]

On 1/15/2021 at 5:33 AM, Panzerwomble said:

Tongue in cheek here , "why not the Typhoon." 

 

Because it sucks ! 

 

It is an aged mediocre design, built for an air superiority war against Russia in the late 1990's it probably could not have won.  

 

Now been "re-purposed" to carry a bomb or two as the RAF have deliberately dispensed with all the other more useful ground pounders , Tornado, Jaguar , Harrier .....which would have been far more useful in the past 10 years of sandpit wars. Yes you can flip it around the sky like a Spitfire , but the Taliban's air resources didn't require that dogfighting capability , and if it met a new Russian built aircraft (Su27/30) , it's lack of stealth will see it become toast quite quickly. At one point it was claimed as 82% as effective as an F22 apparently, wow that's confidence building . 

 

It has zero combat successes to boast of , and is only kept going politically to keep very expensive BAE jobs in the UK . 

 

And it looks like a half baked over Rafale ...it's not even a pretty aircraft .

 

To cap it all, Australia rejected buying them and stuck with F18's instead until the F35 comes on stream . Build one of them instead  

That may all be relevant to the real aircraft but the OP is about a model airplane.

[wunwinglow]

On 1/15/2021 at 11:39 AM, phantomdriver said:

Toss up between Revell and Trumpy

I don't normally say things like this about kits, but...... No contest. The Trumpeter one is dreadful. Goes together, but is mostly the product of a fevered imagination. The Revell one is trickier to put together, and has no intake trunking, but the shape is far, far better. For and example, look at the engine nozzles on the Trumpeter kit, they are a good 2/3 the proper diameter, and the rear fuselage has a weird extra taper to close it all up. The pylons are tiny, and the ordnance is all very strange....  Get the Revell one.

[Chek]

On 1/15/2021 at 11:33 AM, Panzerwomble said:

Tongue in cheek here , "why not the Typhoon." 

 

Because it sucks ! 

 

It is an aged mediocre design, built for an air superiority war against Russia in the late 1990's it probably could not have won.  

 

Now been "re-purposed" to carry a bomb or two as the RAF have deliberately dispensed with all the other more useful ground pounders , Tornado, Jaguar , Harrier .....which would have been far more useful in the past 10 years of sandpit wars. Yes you can flip it around the sky like a Spitfire , but the Taliban's air resources didn't require that dogfighting capability , and if it met a new Russian built aircraft (Su27/30) , it's lack of stealth will see it become toast quite quickly. At one point it was claimed as 82% as effective as an F22 apparently, wow that's confidence building . 

 Well you can badmouth it, but the Typhoon is likely the best super F-16 we'll see.

The next gen follow on fighters will look very different.