Eurofighter Typhoon

The Luftwaffe was certainly on the cutting edge of technology during the Second World War, and the same holds true today. After many post war years of using primarily U.S. military aircraft designs, many built in Germany under licence, the Luftwaffe acquired the Panavia Tornado, an excellent fighter/bomber platform, produced by no less than three countries; Great Britain, Italy, and Germany. Tornado has served them well for more than thirty years, however, nothing lasts forever, and the need to sharpen their already razor edge has come. 

Enter the Eurofighter Typhoon, an aircraft also built by three different companies in as many countries; EADS in Germany, BAE Systems in Great Britain, and Alenia Aeronautica in Italy.
The Typhoon uses the most current state of the art technology for everything from flight management to weapons guidance. The plane is extremely maneuverable, and not due to thrust vectoring, as with the F-22 Raptor for instance, but the computerized "fly-by-wire' flight management system. Large area delta wings, forward canards, and two powerful Eurojet EJ200 turbofan engines, each capable of producing 13,000-20,000 pounds of thrust, combine to make an airplane so fast and maneuverable that adversaries will struggle greatly to get the edge over it in combat. The  Typhoon is also more economical to operate than most of it's contemporaries, incorporating a feature in the engine management called super cruise. This allows the Typhoon to cruise at super sonic speeds without having to use it's after burners.

The weapons system of Typhoon uses GPS guidance to put a multitude of different ordinance accurately on the target, assuring that the aircraft will not have to fly over the target area more than one time, if at all. Several stand off weapons are available to the Typhoon that allow for strikes on targets many miles away from the aircraft's actual position. As a result, the target can be eliminated without the enemy ever knowing that the shot was coming.
Last, but surely not least, the Typhoon also incorporates the Mauser BK27 27mm cannon as secondary armament, used primarily in the air to air role.

The plane depicted here is a Typhoon two-seat trainer variant, belonging to Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff". at Laage-Rostok, May 2004.
It's interesting to note that the Luftwaffe to this very day still has a penchant for painting it's fighter aircraft in an overall light blue-grey color, not too dissimilar to the light blue used on WW2 era Luftwaffe planes. If it works, don't change it!
This example is void of any under wing stores, only the weapons pylons and a center mount belly tank are fitted. The Luftwaffe has stated that their two-seaters will only be used in the training role, and the single seat variants reserved for combat.
This model was built from the 1/72 scale Revell kit.