Eurofighter Targets 200-Plus More Typhoon Sales, Led by Saudi Arabia, Austria and Turkey

The Eurofighter consortium sees a potential market for more than 200 additional Typhoon fighter jets. It named Saudi Arabia, Austria and Turkey as its leading targets in a briefing at the International Fighter Conference in Munich on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, Breaking Defense reported. The figures describe potential demand, not signed orders, and no sales timeline was given.

Eurofighter chief engineering and operations officer Cristiano Montrucchio listed sales targets of 54 jets for Saudi Arabia, 36 for Austria and 24 for Turkey, according to a FlightGlobal report syndicated by Defense Presswire. The consortium of Airbus Defence and Space, BAE Systems and Leonardo is competing with U.S. and French fighters for export deals across Europe and beyond.

By the numbers: the Eurofighter export pipeline

The three named prospects add up to 114 aircraft (TBR calculation). Saudi Arabia accounts for the largest share, 47% of that total. Turkey and Saudi Arabia together make up 78 jets, Breaking Defense noted. Accounts of the rest of the pipeline differ. FlightGlobal quoted Montrucchio as putting further opportunities at “around 150 more examples,” including Bangladesh, the Philippines and Portugal. Breaking Defense said no breakdown was given for the remaining 86 or more aircraft. Either way, the total is well above the 134 potential exports the consortium cited at last year’s conference.

The program’s order book, as shown on the consortium’s slide and reported by Türkiye Today, stands at 769 aircraft ordered and 619 delivered to 10 customers. Another 61 are in production for Spain, Germany and Kuwait, and 89 were ordered recently. Delivered plus in-production plus recently ordered equals the 769 on order (TBR calculation). That leaves 150 jets, or 19.5% of the order book, still to be delivered.

Deliveries by customer, as shown on the slide: Britain 156, Germany 140, Italy 95, Spain 72, Saudi Arabia 72, Kuwait 25, Qatar 24, Austria 15, Oman 12 and industry 8. Britain and Germany alone account for 48% of all deliveries (TBR calculation). Kuwait has received 25 of its 28 jets, with the rest due “in a few months,” Montrucchio said. The slide also listed a workforce of 100,000 across the partner nations and 1 million flight hours reached in January 2026.

Saudi Arabia, Austria and Turkey

Saudi Arabia already flies 72 Typhoons and has long had a follow-on requirement, according to FlightGlobal. Austria operates 15 Tranche 1 jets and is looking for a replacement capability. Turkey signed with Britain on Oct. 27, 2025, for 20 new Tranche 4 Typhoons, in a contract worth about 5.4 billion pounds. Deliveries are scheduled at six in 2030, eight in 2031 and six in 2032, Türkiye Today reported. A further 24 would be a second batch of new-build jets.

Those 24 are separate from the used Typhoons Turkey is seeking from Qatar and Oman, Aviation Week’s Tony Osborne wrote on X, as cited by Türkiye Today. Turkey has also signed a training and support contract worth about 2.5 billion pounds, covering spares, simulators and pilot and engineer training. Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Oct. 22 that talks with Qatar continue, and that Qatar is expected to send a draft training program and sales contract.

Competition from the F-35, Rafale and Gripen

Several of the named markets are contested. In Portugal, the Typhoon is up against Lockheed Martin’s F-35, Sweden’s Gripen and France’s Rafale to replace aging F-16s. An Airbus spokesperson told Breaking Defense that its proposal “will be formally submitted by the end of this year.” Poland is weighing 32 more fighters but could buy more F-35s after securing a $4 billion U.S. Foreign Military Financing loan in September. Bangladesh signed a letter of intent with Leonardo last year but has also moved toward talks on China’s J-10CE, according to Reuters reporting cited by Breaking Defense.

On production, Montrucchio said annual capacity has risen from 14 aircraft to more than 20, with “rate 30” as the eventual goal, according to FlightGlobal. Montrucchio said the program aims to “enlarge the combat mass” of its partner nations, according to FlightGlobal. European rearmament is covered in our report on EU defense readiness despite €418 billion in spending and in NATO’s deep-strike planning. More international news is on our world page.

Sources

• Breaking Defense: Eurofighter eyes sales of 200 additional aircraft (Nov. 5, 2026)
• FlightGlobal via Defense Presswire: Eurofighter targets potential sales of more than 200 additional Typhoons (Nov. 4, 2026)
• Türkiye Today: Eurofighter eyes second batch of 24 new-build Typhoons for Türkiye (Nov. 5, 2026)
• Air & Space Forces Magazine Daily Report (Nov. 6, 2026)