So exciuse my civilianised brain and clearly incorrect thinking and judgement - I mean I'm only an uneducated civvy, but if we dont need to / want to fight in a close range environment, why have we spent so much money on an agile fighter aircraft, when all we needed to do was build a platform to carry 20 AMRAAM / Meteor?
Surely shoving AMRAAM and ASRAAM on an F3 would have fulfilled the requirement they seem to be stating with the "no gun" arguement, and been a damn sight more cost effective?
They try to argue that other aircraft that have a gun are older - errr F22, Sukhois, Rafale, etc?? What??? And the F35 not having a gun - whos requirement was that??