25 One piece rudder (aluminium honeycomb
filled, boron/epoxy/carbon)
26 Cantilevered multi-spar wing
27 Machined main spars and attachment
fittings
28 Rear spar attachment lug
29 Front and mid spar attachment lugs
30 Machined ribs
31 'Sine wave' section ribs
32 Integrally machined stringers, one-piece
skin panels (upper and lower, sealed for
tankage)
33 Inspection panels
34 Brake chute housing (towers for deploy-
ment, bydrauiicalty actuated)
Air conditioning
A1 Air duct bleed from engine HP system to
air conditioning and pressurisation bay
A2 Precooler and control valve
A3 Overboard duct
Underside view showing
carriage of typical weapons
Structure and general
1 Radome (Kevlar) is mounted on a porta-
ble dolly and pulled forward for access
2 Forward electronics bay (temperature
controlled)
3 Forward pressure bulkhead
4 Electrically actuated canopy (counterbal-
anced) hot air demisted
5 Canopy emergency ground release
6 Anti-detonation chords (ADC)
7 Fully shrouded instrument panel
8 Rear pressure bulkhead
9 Martin-Baker Mk.FIOQA zero-zero ejec-
tion seat
10 Rearward-opening panel over main
avionic bay (carbon fibre aluminium hon-
eycomb filled)
11 Semi monocoque fuselage structure
12 Fuselage intercostals and longerons
(sealed for tankage)
13 Machined main fuselage/wing attach-
ment frames (steel)
14 Area ruled and 'blended wing', all metal
fuselage
Instrument panel showing
five CRT displays
15 Bifurcated engine air-intakes (slope for-
ward)
16 Boundary air-layer ramps
17 Bi-contc air-intake cones, move parallel
to fuselage via hydraulic screwjack (gen-
erates four shock-waves at Mach 2)
18 Ventral suck-in doors (open at high an-
gles of attack)
19 Fixed intake strake
20 Fin/fuselage attachment lugs
21 Rear fuselage, covered with extruded
stringer stiffened skin panels
22 Two-spar cantilevered fin torsion
box.covered with boron/epoxy/carbonfi-
bre panels
23 Leading-edge (aluminium)
24 Detachable fin tip incorporating anti ero-
sion strip
A4 ECS bay
A5 Primary and secondary heat exchangers
(bootstrap system)
A6 Ram air "in" from NACA intakes below
aircraft via plenum chambers
A7 Overboard air touvres
A8 Mixing air units and water separators
A9 Duct to cockpit via turbocompressors
A10 Cockpit pressure relief valves (one each
side)
A11 Lox converter (5litres) behind sloping
bulkhead
Controls
C1 Control column
C2 Rudder pedals with toe-brakes
C3 Cockpit side consoles
C4 Control links to "Q" feel units (aircraft is
totally FBW controlled)
C5 Rudder hydraulic .servo actuator
C6 Full-span, two-segment leading-edge
variable-camber slat (CFRP) 17*30-
inboard section, 30°outboard section
C7 Slat actuator (hydraulic)
C8 Segmented torque drive shaft •
C9 Nut and screw drive actuators
C10 Guide rails and rollers
C11 Two section elevons (aluminium honey-
comb core, CFRP skin) -16°+25c,can be
deflected independently or differentially
C12 Hydraulic servo actuator, (all actuators
electrically signalled)
C13 Push-pull rods and bellcranks
C14 Machined hinges with glassfibre fairings
C15 Upper and lower airbrake panels
C16 Hydraulic actuator and cross-head
Electr ics and e lec t ron ics
E1 Thornson-CSE RDY look-down/shoot-
down multimode radar
E2 Head-up, eye-level and head-down dis-
play
E3 Pressure head (each side), electrically
heated
E4 Outside temperature probe
E5 High alpha transmitter
E l3
E6 Battery compartment, 28V 40Ahr ni-cad
battery (both sides)
E7 Avionic racks housing inertial navigation
and flight control computers
E8 Format ion-keeping lights
E9 Refuelling floodlight
E10 TACAN aerial
E11 IFF aerial
E12 Upper a nti -co I lis ion beacon
E13 Electronic countermeasures (ECM)
E14 Anti-radar jammers
E15 VOR-glide aerials
E16 VHF aerial
E17 Position light
E18 Chaff/flare dispenser
E19 Navigation light
E20 High-intensity landing lights
E21 Total temperature probe (TTP)
E22 UHF ariel
Fuel system
F1 Wing tanks
F2 Feeder tanks
F3- Mini feeder tanks
F4 Forward tanks
F5 External fillers (total four)
F6 Pressure refuel/defuel coupling, {total in-
ternal capacity 4,000litres (1.057US gals)
F7 Interconnecting pipes
F8 Fuel vent tine
F9 Detachable inflight refuelling probe
F10 Fuel tank capacitance probes
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Location of fuel tanks
Powerplant
P1 Engine power lever
P2 SNECMA M53-P2 tu rbo fan eng ine,
95.1kN (21,3851b with afterburning), .
FADEC controlled
P3 Afterburner variable-ejector nozzle
P4 Nozzle actuation hydraulic plumbing
P5 Main thrust trunion mounting
P6 Forward mounting ring and attachment s
links
P7 Rear mounting ring and attachment links
P8 Upper torque links
P9 Engine accessory gearbox
P10 Angle driveshaft to/from auxiliary power
unit (APU)
P11 Airframe-mounted auxiliary engine gear-
box (AMAD) both units mounted on the
aircraft centre-line in a stainless-steel
fireproof compartment
P12 Auxiliary power unit
P13 APU electric starter
P14 APU exhaust ducts
P15 Gearbox driving two 25kVA alternators
and one generator
Undercarr iage and hydraul ics
U1 Hydraulic reservoir and accumulators
(duel system mounted on both sides
U2 Rearward-retracting nose undercarriage
360mm X 136-6 tyres, steering through
90°, incorporating a single disc brake
(Messier-Hispano-Bugatti)
U3 Pre-opening and closing undercarriage
bay doors
U4 Leg door (all doors CFRP)
U5 Main undercarriage, incorporating single
wheel with anti-skid polycrystalline graph-
ite disc brakes and 750mm X 230-15 low
profile tyres (Messier-Hispano-Bugatti}
U6 Hydraulic retraction jack
U7 Hydraulic contents guage
Weapons and external s tores
W1 DEFA 30mm cannon (both sides)
W2 Muzzle blast trough
W3 Ammunition magazine
W4 Spent cartridge and link container
W5 External wing pylons (total four)
W6 Centre-line pylon
W7 MICA missiles
W8 MAGIC missiles
W9 Super 530D
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