"Typhoon has an internal cannon installation. As a last minute cost-saving measure the RAF decided that it didn't want or need the weapon"
Exactly my point. I wonder if the RAF will later come to regret that decision or will they be able to support it it a later time?
I can see the first conflict the plane returns from, fresh out of missiles. Down below an enemy helo. I hope they can put an external tank if carried through the rotor arc.