Overview
- Unite welcomed Türkiye’s purchase of 20 Eurofighter Typhoons but urged the government to buy new aircraft for the RAF to sustain skills and final assembly capability.
- Conservative MPs pressed ministers to replace 30 retired tranche‑1 jets and to confirm production and in‑service timelines for the E‑Scan radar and the P4E electronics upgrade.
- Defence Minister Luke Pollard said spending commitments, including on Typhoon and its radar, will be set out in the forthcoming investment plan and highlighted work with allies to boost interoperability.
- The agreement, described by ministers as the largest British fighter export in nearly two decades, is valued at about £8 billion and is the first UK‑built Typhoon order since 2017.
- Government figures say the contract sustains roughly 20,000 UK jobs across 330 firms, including nearly 6,000 at BAE’s Warton and Samlesbury sites, 1,100 at Rolls‑Royce in Bristol, and over 800 at Leonardo in Edinburgh.