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Thrust for
Saudi Arabia
By Patrick Hoeveler
Breakthrough in the non-European market: The Eurofighter Typhoon has scored its second
export deal winning a contract from Saudi Arabia. The kingdom ordered 72 aircraft for which
the Eurojet consortium, which has Avio, ITP, MTU Aero Engines and Rolls-Royce as partners,
will deliver 144 EJ200 engines. These have considerable MTU content. Worth billions, the
contract is hoped to have a knock-on effect triggering further sales of the combat aircraft in
the global market.
“We have a lot riding on that contract, just
looking at the sales volume of the initial
order, which runs around 300 million euros,”
explains Klaus Günther, EJ200 program
director at MTU. The initial order includes
spare engines and support services. After
that, follow-on orders are expected to come
in, for instance for further replacement
engines, spare parts and repair work. MTU
shares in these according to its role in the
EJ200: Germany’s leading engine manufacturer
is responsible for 33 percent of the
EJ200’s development and 30 percent of its
production. The German company is manufacturing
the high-pressure and low-pressure
compressors and provides the digital
engine control and monitoring unit
(DECMU). At MTU, about 600 people are
working on the EJ200 program.
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