Ah yes. JSF.
No internal PWIII.
No external ASRAAM.
No Brimstone.
No ALARM.
No external tanks.
No Storm Shadow for years.
No ITAR waiver, so no STFs, SEMs, and little chance of UORs. Doubt as to the viability of autonomous repair/support.
Downgraded LO characteristics and capabilities.
A programme that the US GAO believe to be a huge risk, which is being flown before key technologies are mature or in place.
Unit price for the USAF already more than $100 m.
Not a hope of getting the aircraft into frontline squadron service before 2017. (Think GR7A/9/9A can last that long without new back ends?)
Yet Typhoon is the aircraft you choose to kick......
