All Partners now operate Batch 2 Aircraft

[jwcook]

HALLBERGMOOS, Germany, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- With deployment of IS002 from
Alenia's facilities in Torino to 4th Stormo "Amadeo d'Aosta" at Grosseto,
Italy, all for partner air forces in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United
Kingdom now operate series production single seaters with Batch 2 standard.

These aircraft have PSP2 Capability (Production System Package) with Initial
Defensive Aids Subsystem (DASS), Multifunctional Information and Distribution
System (MIDS), Initial Direct Voice Input (DVI) and Sensor Fusion.

Six Batch 2 aircraft have been accepted by the customer air forces so far,
totaling the number of now delivered series production aircraft at 41
(including 5 Instrumented Production Aircraft IPA).

Most recently the operation of Eurofighter at extremely low temperatures has
been successfully evaluated and proven in Sweden. At Decimomannu, Italy, DA 3,
the gun firing clearance aircraft, is completing the final demonstration of the
Full Operational Clearance for the operation of this part of the Weapon System.

Flight test of the new Phase 4 Standard Flight Control System Software
dedicated for Block 2b has begun. Industry and government test pilots comments
are enthusiastic: "The Phase 4 software left a very good impression overall. It
was like flying a different, much more spirited and agile aircraft." Pilots
also praise the new software for air-to-air refueling, reducing workload
considerably.

Production of Tranche 1 standard aircraft is fully underway with the 100th
center fuselage and right wing section already delivered. Production for
Tranche 2 aircraft has already begun last year with first frames for the centre
fuselage produced.

Aloysius Rauen, CEO Eurofighter GmbH, commented: "Eurofighter Typhoon is the
biggest and most successful military aerospace programme in Europe. With 638
aircraft under contract to five nations Eurofighter GmbH holds the largest
order book of any next generation fighter aircraft worldwide, making
Eurofighter Typhoon the undisputed Number One in the global fighter business.

Eurofighter Typhoon has unquestioned capabilities acknowledged by the customers
and international aerospace experts. Its operational potential reaches far into
the first decade of this century, offering huge technological and industrial
advantages to new potential customers based on a large order book, reducing
customer risk. The Eurofighter Typhoon programme is characterised as a fully
open partnership with unrivalled technological and industrial return to
customers who wish to join the project."