Originally Posted by
tartare
But 7 years?
I think 7 years is just to get all the liver transplants completed as jaundice will have set in in the EF community with Germany's reluctance to progress anything on Typhoon, especially for anything with a hint of air-to-ground about it. After years of dragging their feet and the 'air defence only' and 'not paying for that' mantra they now want to turn it into a fully-fledged strike/attack platform.
If Germany had been onboard from the beginning the UK Typhoon programme would have been years ahead of where it is now.