Originally Posted by bongof4
Looks like PPruNe is about to be treated to a nice long thread fuelled by people without a clue what they are talking about!
I hope Lone Kestrel gets a decent response.
Over to you A2QFI.
What an odd thread. Everyone seems to be replying to something that someone else didn't say.
Seems Dutch, but who talked about Typhoon performance or not wanting Typhoon?
From a military perspective the machine is available now for a limited operational capability but no immediate operational requirement. We have Jaguar etc to cover while the FOC is delivered. In the short term therefore we do not need the full complement of aircraft. At the risk of repeating the inter-war rolling 'no war for 5 years' approach, it is better to have aircraft coming into service than in-service and costing.
Should push be required then I am sure we would re-appropriate the SA order much as we did with the Turkish battleship at the outbreak of WWI (mind you probably pissed the Turks off big time).