First of all, I checked some of the latest orders for T5 Eurofighters and all of them have their deliveries starting from 2030, so, that's pretty much going according to plan. I checked the prices as well while looking at them and again, they are comparable, too.
Second, if we are going to be able to integrate our own weapons, that raises some interesting questions. This diagram seems to show the latest payload options for Eurofighter:
For me, the most important question is, how much can we play around with this?
For example, what's the load limit of hard points under the carriage? Meteor is 190 kg, 3.65 metre long and its diameter is almost 180 mm. Can it be pushed to carry a 230 kg missile with 230 mm diameter? Because if it can, that would mean our EFs can fly with 6 EF-230 ballistic missile (Ef variant of UAV-230, obviously) and that would give them a pretty good ground strike capability. If not, can we make a, say, EF-180 and use it instead, because I think people in Roketsan can do that in their sleep.
Or, can we build a pod for Eren and use it instead of Brimstone? It is lighter and thinner than Brimstone, albeit a bit longer. For the same weight, one could have 4 Eren in it, so EF could strike from 100+ km instead of 60 (with the new version of Brimstone).
It'll be fun to watch what we can do with EF.
