FO Max Stout,
I'm not entirely sure that cancelling tranch 3 of the Tyhpus virus will save us loadsa money. Some, for sure, but I understand the multinational aspects of the contract are such that if we reduce and the other nations don't then we pay a disproportionate amount of their R&D costs - in effect we discount their buy.
Believe this is an area where no one wants to blink first and all four nations must blink together - of course they may have already done that and I'm behind the curve: haven't been able to get too worked up about FCA/Eurofighter 2000/Eurofighter/Typhoon for some years now!