Kuwait Air Force To Receive Two Eurofighter Typhoon Jets In Few Weeks Time

Kuwait Air Force To Receive Two Eurofighter Typhoon Jets In Few Weeks Time
Kuwait Air Force To Receive Two Eurofighter Typhoon Jets In Few Weeks Time

Kuwait Air Force will be receiving two more Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets in few weeks time. Four jets were delivered earlier from it’s 28 orders placed on 5th April 2016. Complete delivery of fightrr jets is scheduled by 2024.

One of the two Typhoon fighter jet aircraft is currently participating  in RIAT Air Show being held at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. Annual World’s largest military air show is held over the third week-end in July.

Guido Sibona, Vice President, Leonardo’s Eurofighter Program, said. ‘I’m very proud to see Kuwaiti Air Force Eurofighter here in RIAT, one of the most important Air Show in the world. The Eurofighter Typhoons we have developed and produced for the Kuwait Air Force are the most advanced in the whole of the European program. In cooperation with the Italian Air Force we are providing the Country with an impressive air defence capability and we built state-of-the-art infrastructures in the Country to support and maintain a fleet of 28 aircraft.”

Col. Pilot Eisa AlRashidi, 7th Squadron Commander, Kuwait Air Force said that ‘ The Kuwait Air Force is  participating in the Royal International Air Tattoo for the first time since 1993, when we were flying the F/A-18C. This year, we’re very proud to be returning with the most advanced Eurofighter Typhoon in world.

The capability of this platform makes the Kuwaiti Air Force one of the best equipped Air Forces in the region. We are looking to start the OCU in Kuwait by the end of 2022 with the support of the Italian Air Force and Leonardo to build and maintain a quality pilot training Centre for Kuwait”.

This multi-role fighter aircrafts have a package of capabilities on top of the previous Typhoon’s enhancement program, such as the Captor-E (E-scan) radar and several novelties in the weapon system that are bringing the Kuwait Air Force to the front-line of fighter technology.

On 5 April 2016, a contract between the Ministry of Defence of the State of Kuwait and Leonardo (acting as Prime Contractor Organisation) was signed. It was a true success for the Eurofighter Consortium, the partners companies and of the Countries System.

/ Current Affairs

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