No external ASRAAM carriage. Lock before launch will be fun.....
No internal Storm Shadow - the UK's primary 'Day One' stand off weapon.
No Paveway III - a 2,000-lb weapon when Cdre Henley says: "The requirement for the UK, if I could just clarify is actually one 1,000 lb bomb either side. The original requirement for the UK was just that. There was never a requirement for the UK aircraft (and the requirement document laid it out) that we would have a 1,000 lb weapon either side so we could carry two 1,000 lb bombs. At one stage in the programme we believed that we had enough spare capacity in the STOVL aircraft to move towards a common weapons bay with the other variants, which has a 2,000 lb capacity weapon bay. That is not the same as saying you can fit two 1,000 lb bombs. It means you can fit a single 2,000 lb class weapon. The UK does not have any 2,000 lb class weapons in its inventory, which is why a 1,000 lb class weapon was being deemed suitable."
And an overweight, under-stealthy jet whose programme unit cost (according to the US GAO) has already reached $100 m. The equivalent Typhoon cost is similar - at c.£61 m (for the 232 jets on order, additional aircraft would come in at a unit cost of c. £42 m).
And a programme which the US GAO wants to delay (to de-risk) because key production decisions are presently scheduled to be taken long before supporting R&D, test and demonstration work has been completed.
Great.....