C'mon, vecvec, why is Typhoon a folly?
Hastings thinks it's a 'high altitude interceptor' akin to something like the
F-104A as originally designed (or perhaps the Lightning) and totally unable to contribute to the land battle. He says it's being 'modified' to do a job for which it was designed for.
What would you have bought in place? I don't mean more airlift (which we need), or more SH (which we need) but to replace the Jag and F3 so that the UK has an up-to-date multi-role capable aircraft. What would you have bought? Hastings never answers this question, so it would be nice to hear the credible alternatives - all of which are more of a 'Cold War dinosaur' than the Typhoon, or less capable, or more expensive or all three.