Many many pages ago a question was asked regarding Typhoon's export chances.
Perhaps we should put all the Star Trek EMP worries to one side and consider what's really going wrong with the programme, right here and now. In other words, Tranche Two - and EF production sustainment.
Without agreement on Tranche Two there is precisely ZERO chance of any Eurofighter exports. The failure to agree T2 is already threatening to squash the deal with Austria and will make any Singaporean order a non-starter.
Eurofighter now admits that it's touch-and-go as to whether is can meet its contractual obligations to deliver on time to Austria (May 2007). In fact, the situation is worse than that and the two sides are discussing penalty clauses and compensation for a timetable that was already unrealistic before Eurofighter's optimism on T2 was blown away.
If there is no T2 agreement then we can't even give Singapore a price, never mind an outline level of capability - and bear in mind too that Singapore is going to want EOC levels of capability that are so far away right now as to be almost invisible.
The same caveats apply to the Greek deal and everything else Eurofighter has on its books right now.
If the UK does not get its act together and sign an agreement REALLY REALLY SOON this programme is going to plunge into depths of delay and cost overruns that can hardly be imagined. There is no indication that any movement is being made on HMG's side whatsoever - Eurofighter officials say the process is out of control.
The other thing to be concerned about is that all talk of Tranche Three has now disappeared off the radar. One can say, 'well, let's get T2 in the bag first' - and that's just fine, but there is almost no real discussion, planning or even movement (particularly within the UK) to indicate that there's is any ambition for 232 jets.