Originally Posted by
Fly Aiprt
....like it or not, agility is not the strong point of the Tyhphoon.
As to calling it "underperforming", I would be very careful. ;-)
No offence or uncivility meant,
You're talking bollocks, Fly Aiprt.
No-one with an atom of sense would claim that Typhoon is anything other than agile.
Rafale may (
may!) have slightly more agility in certain regimes, and it certainly has much less in others.
Rafale does enjoy very good agility at airshow speeds and heights (though any superiority over Typhoon even here is so marginal as to be a matter of debate, and not of incontravertible fact).
But even were we to accept that Rafale was a better air show aeroplane, that does not translate to any relevant operational edge.
Any more than its greater agility made the Gloster Gauntlet a better fighter than the Supermarine Spitfire.