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individual airframes supply state evidence but are not separate meanings of this registry entry.", "in_scope": [ "Typhoon family identity, single-seat and two-seat configurations, and national designations", "Production tranche, block, modification and software-baseline distinctions", "Airframe, EJ200 propulsion and flight-control architecture", "Configuration-specific sensors, defensive systems and approved equipment interfaces", "Evidence needed to assess serviceability, maintenance status and military airworthiness" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual aircraft ownership, movement and maintenance-event histories as independent asset records", "The Eurofighter consortium, partner companies and procurement organisations", "Standalone models of EJ200 engines, missiles, sensors and support equipment", "Combat tactics, target selection and weapon-employment procedures", "The unrelated Hawker Typhoon aircraft", "Generic fighter-aircraft principles already owned by a broader aircraft model" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require documented Eurofighter Typhoon type identity; the word Typhoon alone also identifies the unrelated Hawker aircraft.", "Use the combined canard-delta layout, twin-engine installation and single vertical fin as a recognition check, supported by type documentation rather than silhouette alone.", "Confirm the twin EUROJET EJ200 installation when distinguishing Typhoon from superficially similar canard-delta fighters.", "Treat tranche, national designation and upgrade baseline as configurations within the family rather than independent aircraft types.", "Distinguish the aircraft family from a particular machine by requiring a serial or equivalent asset identifier before attaching individual condition claims." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Type identity and national designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Eurofighter Typhoon; documented national designation and alias", "why_it_matters": "Connects different service names to the registered family without conflating unrelated aircraft." }, { "name": "Crew configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Single-seat; 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PIRATE installation status; associated software baseline", "why_it_matters": "Sensor equipment and capability vary across Typhoon configurations." }, { "name": "Stores compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Equipment type linked to applicable aircraft baseline and approval evidence", "why_it_matters": "Physical attachment and public integration announcements do not establish operational clearance." }, { "name": "Serviceability assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Serviceable; restricted; unserviceable; unknown, with assessment scope and timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Supports bounded conclusions about an associated airframe rather than a family-wide readiness claim." }, { "name": "Life consumption", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Flight hours, cycles and authority-defined fatigue indices", "why_it_matters": "Different structural and propulsion items may use different life-accounting measures." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a designation or aircraft record to the Typhoon family and its documented configuration.", "Compare two Typhoon baselines and identify differences supported by configuration evidence.", "Check whether a claimed sensor, role or equipment compatibility applies to a specified baseline.", "Identify missing evidence needed for a serviceability or airworthiness assessment.", "Route maintenance and support questions to the applicable approved documentation and responsible organisation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "family-and-configuration", "name": "Family and configuration", "description": "Identify the registered aircraft family and the configuration distinctions needed to interpret any further claim.", "rationale": "Typhoon capabilities cannot reliably be inferred from the family name or production tranche alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "type-boundary", "name": "Type boundary", "description": "Separate family identity, national naming and individual aircraft identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "typhoon-identity", "name": "Typhoon identity", "description": "Record documentary type identity and aliases, keeping the Eurofighter family separate from the Hawker Typhoon and from individual serial-numbered assets.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which type or manufacturer record establishes that this designation refers to Eurofighter Typhoon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "typhoon-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the supplied name identify the family, a national variant or an individual airframe?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "typhoon-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "baseline-applicability", "name": "Baseline applicability", "description": "Resolve production and subsequent modification information into an applicable configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-evidence", "name": "Configuration evidence", "description": "Keep tranche, block, national standard, hardware modifications and software release distinct; record whether evidence concerns a proposal, trial installation or accepted configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which production baseline and subsequent modifications define the configuration being assessed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "configuration-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What dated acceptance or configuration record confirms that the stated equipment and software are installed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "configuration-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "airframe-propulsion-and-control", "name": "Airframe, propulsion and control", "description": "Describe the physical architecture that identifies Typhoon and constrains its operation and support.", "rationale": "Typhoon recognition and condition assessment depend on the combination of its airframe, twin-engine propulsion and controlled flight architecture.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-envelope", "name": "Physical envelope", "description": "Capture airframe geometry and configuration-qualified dimensions and masses.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-and-loading", "name": "Geometry and loading", "description": "Use canard-delta geometry as a recognition cue and record dimensions and loading limits with their measurement definitions and applicable configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented airframe features distinguish this Typhoon configuration from similar canard-delta aircraft?", "kind": "definition", "id": "geometry-and-loading-q01" }, { "text": "What dimensions and mass limits apply, and do the figures include external equipment or fuel?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-and-loading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propulsion-and-flight-control", "name": "Propulsion and flight control", "description": "Connect engine and flight-control identity to approved configuration and condition evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "ej200-and-control-baseline", "name": "EJ200 and control baseline", "description": "Typhoon uses EJ200 propulsion; record engine standards and flight-control applicability without converting promotional performance figures into operating limits. Reference: [Eurofighter aircraft features](https://world.eurofighter.com/the-aircraft/features).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which EJ200 build standards and flight-control software standard apply to the configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ej200-and-control-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "Which approved records establish propulsion and flight-control serviceability or restrictions?", "kind": "action", "id": "ej200-and-control-baseline-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sensors-and-electronic-systems", "name": "Sensors and electronic systems", "description": "Represent the installed sensing and defensive equipment without assuming uniform fit across the family.", "rationale": "Radar evolution and optional or nationally differentiated equipment make generic Typhoon sensor claims unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "radar-and-passive-sensing", "name": "Radar and passive sensing", "description": "Identify radar and infrared equipment and distinguish installation from capability acceptance.", "findings": [ { "id": "sensor-fit-applicability", "name": "Sensor fit applicability", "description": "Record the exact radar variant and PIRATE installation status. Eurofighter describes CAPTOR-M and evolving electronically scanned radar systems, making configuration and date essential. Reference: [Making Sense of Typhoon](https://world.eurofighter.com/news/making-sense-of-typhoon).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which radar variant and passive infrared equipment are installed on the specified baseline?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sensor-fit-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Does the supporting evidence establish a development milestone, delivered installation or accepted service capability?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sensor-fit-applicability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "defensive-system-configuration", "name": "Defensive system configuration", "description": "Record defensive equipment identity and support status at a non-tactical level.", "findings": [ { "id": "praetorian-applicability", "name": "Praetorian applicability", "description": "Eurofighter identifies Praetorian as Typhoon's defensive aids system; determine the applicable fit and modification status rather than assuming a common fleet-wide installation. Reference: [Outpacing the Threat](https://www.eurofighter.com/news/outpacing-the-threat).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which defensive aids configuration is documented for this national and aircraft baseline?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "praetorian-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Which available serviceability records establish whether that installation is supported and usable?", "kind": "action", "id": "praetorian-applicability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "roles-and-equipment-clearance", "name": "Roles and equipment clearance", "description": "Separate family-level role descriptions from approved capabilities of particular configurations.", "rationale": "Typhoon's advertised role breadth does not prove that every airframe has every integration or approval.", "layers": [ { "id": "role-applicability", "name": "Role applicability", "description": "Connect role labels to an evidenced configuration and acceptance state.", "findings": [ { "id": "swing-role-claim", "name": "Swing-role claim", "description": "Eurofighter describes Typhoon as able to perform air-to-air and air-to-surface roles within a mission; record which roles are approved for the configuration under assessment. Reference: [The Aircraft](https://world.eurofighter.com/the-aircraft).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roles are documented as approved for this aircraft baseline?", "kind": "definition", "id": "swing-role-claim-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates a family-level advertised role from an accepted capability of this configuration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "swing-role-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "external-equipment-interfaces", "name": "External equipment interfaces", "description": "Represent equipment compatibility through applicable integration and approval records.", "findings": [ { "id": "clearance-dependencies", "name": "Clearance dependencies", "description": "Record approved compatibility for external tanks, pods and stores as a relationship to aircraft hardware, software and national clearance; keep equipment design and employment procedures in neighbouring models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which approval establishes compatibility between the named equipment and this Typhoon baseline?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "clearance-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Which configuration dependencies must be satisfied before the agent can report that compatibility as established?", "kind": "action", "id": "clearance-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sustainment-and-airworthiness", "name": "Sustainment and airworthiness", "description": "Define the evidence required to assess an associated Typhoon airframe's supportability and authorised condition.", "rationale": "An installed capability is usable only within the aircraft's maintenance, life and airworthiness constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "maintenance-and-life", "name": "Maintenance and life", "description": "Connect Typhoon airframe and EJ200 maintenance applicability to life usage and unresolved defects.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-and-maintenance-evidence", "name": "Life and maintenance evidence", "description": "Require applicable maintenance references, structural life accounting, engine life records and defect dispositions; do not infer inspection intervals or common failure rates from the draft.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which approved maintenance programme and life-accounting methods apply to the airframe and its EJ200 installations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "life-and-maintenance-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What recorded hours, cycles, fatigue measures and outstanding maintenance affect the requested assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "life-and-maintenance-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "release-and-ground-safety", "name": "Release and ground safety", "description": "Locate authority and approved precautions for flight release and ground activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-status", "name": "Authorised status", "description": "Record the responsible military airworthiness authority, applicable release evidence and approved ground-safety documentation for hazards such as ejection systems and installed stores; a generic certification label is insufficient.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority and dated release documents establish the aircraft's authorised status and restrictions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authorised-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which approved Typhoon instructions and qualified personnel are required for the proposed ground or maintenance activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Eurofighter Typhoon sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Eurofighter Typhoon from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Eurofighter Typhoon is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a Eurofighter Typhoon is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Eurofighter Typhoon is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Eurofighter Typhoon is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Eurofighter Typhoon is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Eurofighter Typhoon is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Eurofighter Typhoon passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Eurofighter Typhoon between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Eurofighter Typhoon, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Eurofighter Typhoon is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a Eurofighter Typhoon and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a Eurofighter Typhoon is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a Eurofighter Typhoon performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a Eurofighter Typhoon.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a Eurofighter Typhoon at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Eurofighter Typhoon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 13, "findings": 15, "questions": 45 } } } }