Eurofighter Typhoon jets from the 4° Stormo in Grosseto, Italy hosted 11 F-16 jets from the Royal Danish Air Force Base in Skrydstrup in a joint exercise at Grosseto, home of the Italian Typhoons.

With the future of the Scottish RAF bases hanging in the balance due to further UK MoD cost saving measures, air force base RAF Leuchars has made a move to emphasise its importance as a strategic asset when they kicked off Quick Reaction Alert duty for the Typhoon fleet recently.

The first Spanish single-seat instrumented production aircraft (IPA), pioneers the most advanced technology within the Eurofighter programme. CASSIDIAN is the new name of EADS Defence & Security.

Premium AEROTEC's Varel plant has successfully started assembling structural components for the Eurofighter. The first 3/2b Eurofighter fuselage section produced in Varel has been delivered to the Augsburg plant, where the entire fuselage centre section will be assembled in a series of further steps. The assembly work now carried out in Varel was previously done at Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL), whose military activities were taken over by Premium AEROTEC on 1 January 2011.

Mission “DAEDALUS 11” which began on the 26th January 2011 and runsuntil the 30th, demands intensive air surveillance and security for the 41st World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. For this important mission the Austrian Typhoons have again been called upon to protect the skies during a high-profile event.

The operational fleet of Eurofighter Typhoons in service since the second half of 2003 achieved the impressive milestone of 100,000 flying hours in January 2011.

With most companies on Christmas break between Christmas and New Year, it was a welcome surprise to learn that Alenia Aeronautica was busy completing their final aircraft deliveries for the year, exceeding the total planned for 2010. These last deliveries came in the form of five Eurofighter Typhoon jets that were handed over to the Italian customer on one day.

The Eurofighter Typhoon programme, which has delivered 50 aircraft over the past year, celebrates another milestone today as the 250th aircraft is delivered to the customer. IS038 was handed over to the Italian Air Force in a small ceremony at Pratica di Mare base. The 250th aircraft will join 311 squadron as part of their current duties.

Successful UAE-UK Air Force and Navy exercises have been held at Al Dhafra Air Base in UAE between the 18th November and the 1st December 2010.

The Eurofighter IPA 7 test aircraft reached a round milestone in late November when it landed safely on the airfield in Manching after its 100th flight, carrying a new flight software version.