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"Eurofighter Radars Didn't Spot F/A-22s
Aviation Week & Space Technology
10/03/2005, page 23

Edited by David Bond
Printed headline: Eurorumor Mill

Unconfirmed reports--that is, rumors-- making the rounds in European aerospace industry circles contend that Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons, temporarily operating from Nellis AFB, Nev., were able to pick up U.S. Air Force F/A-22s on their radars, stealth notwithstanding. Similar reports appeared during the 1991 Iraq war concerning the ability of British ships, using large radar arrays, to detect the F-117 and, in later conflicts, the B-2. U.S. officials confirm that the Typhoons were at Nellis to fly with the 422nd Test & Evaluation Sqdn. However, they discount that the Typhoons had seen an F/A-22 in full-configuration stealth. First, they say, the Typhoons and F/A-22s were never in the air at the same time. Second, the F/A-22s always have an enhanced signature for positive air control, except when they go to war or when the range has been cleared for F/A-22-only operations"

And what are thy doing in the US anyway? hot weather testing? high altitude or just USAF evaluation for perhaps some exports to avoid having to buy so many F22's?

I expect they are using the US ranges to do lots of stuff they can't do over here...

Remember the tale about the B2 being picked up on a radar at Farnbrough one year?

Maybe the Typhoon did see the '22...but did it see it at a range that wouldn't have meant that there were already AIM-120s inbound?

Well about the B-2 at Farnbrough.... let's not forget how stealth technology works.