Yey, it’s the ‘fleet of Hunters’ argument yet again.
12 minutes to 45000’ sounds awesome. Could any Hunter, no matter how upgraded, do that with a Radar, 8 decent missiles, a targeting pod and maybe with room to spare for a bomb or two? Oh and some fuel. And the ability to do it all supersonic.
I know people on here love the notion of ‘quantity has a quality of it’s own’ but good luck finding volunteers to fly your 1950’s wonderjets into a 5th gen war.
As I have said previously, a single Typhoon Sqn has more offensive capability than the entire Jaguar Wing had in its day. It would take an awful lot of Hunters to make a similar claim.
BV