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Kuwait has approved the procurement of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft that was announced in September 2015, the Reuters news agency reported on 1 March.
The national parliament has passed a draft law enabling the advance payment of KWD150 million (USD499 million) for the Typhoons, with the remainder of the USD8.7 billion to be paid later.
Under the deal, 22 single-seat and six twin-seat aircraft will be delivered to Kuwait from Finmeccanica's assembly line at Caselle, Italy, from 2019. These Tranche 3 aircraft will be equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, and Kuwait also has the option for the MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missile and MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.
The deal to procure 28 Typhoons is part of a wider effort by the Kuwaiti Air Force (al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya: KAF) to augment and eventually replace the 39 Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet fighters it currently fields that were procured from the United States in the early 1990s. In January KAF commander Major General Abdullah al-Foudari confirmed that a number of Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets (reported by Reuters to be 28) will also be purchased to serve alongside the Typhoons.
Kuwait is the third Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) export customer for the Typhoon after Saudi Arabia and Oman. Deliveries of the 72 aircraft for Saudi Arabia are continuing out of BAE Systems' Warton facility in the United Kingdom, while the company has just begun assembly of the first of the 12 jets ordered by Oman. The Kuwaiti order brings to 599 the number of Typhoons that have been committed to (out of an orderbook of 719), 467 of which have so far been delivered to Austria, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
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Kuwaiti parliament approves Typhoon procurement | IHS Jane's 360
The national parliament has passed a draft law enabling the advance payment of KWD150 million (USD499 million) for the Typhoons, with the remainder of the USD8.7 billion to be paid later.
Under the deal, 22 single-seat and six twin-seat aircraft will be delivered to Kuwait from Finmeccanica's assembly line at Caselle, Italy, from 2019. These Tranche 3 aircraft will be equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, and Kuwait also has the option for the MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missile and MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.
The deal to procure 28 Typhoons is part of a wider effort by the Kuwaiti Air Force (al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya: KAF) to augment and eventually replace the 39 Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet fighters it currently fields that were procured from the United States in the early 1990s. In January KAF commander Major General Abdullah al-Foudari confirmed that a number of Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets (reported by Reuters to be 28) will also be purchased to serve alongside the Typhoons.
Kuwait is the third Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) export customer for the Typhoon after Saudi Arabia and Oman. Deliveries of the 72 aircraft for Saudi Arabia are continuing out of BAE Systems' Warton facility in the United Kingdom, while the company has just begun assembly of the first of the 12 jets ordered by Oman. The Kuwaiti order brings to 599 the number of Typhoons that have been committed to (out of an orderbook of 719), 467 of which have so far been delivered to Austria, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
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Kuwaiti parliament approves Typhoon procurement | IHS Jane's 360
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