I'm just saying we have bought too many.
If I want to cook Mrs Wokka pasta, I nip down the shops buy a bag of penne and a tin of chopped tomatoes, I don't by 200 odd tins of tomatoes and find I've got no money for the pasta.
Same with the Typhoon. UK Air PLC does not take ground, we just support those that do. When regiments are being axed, and the elements that support them the most are being stretched to the limit, it makes little sense to blow the budeget buying an inordinate amount of air cover for these troops remaining.
QRA - Yeah good job, and Typhoon can only be an improvement on the F3, but 200 odd aircraft ???????????????