Valid points orca, but your post and AA's above it seem to suffer from the mistaken assumption, popular amongst Typhoon critics, that Typhoon was only ever intended as an A/A platform and a couple of years ago someone decided to stick a bomb on it. This just isn't true.
It was designed to be A/A capable first to replace F3 (about now), under the assumption that Harrier and GR4 could cover the A/G side, then the A/G capability could be brought on - but it was always intended to be multi-role. In fact I remember the argument years (10+) ago about whether it would be multi-role or swing-role.
The current reality of 2 wars and the continual salami slicing of A/G sqns has meant that the A/G capability is now needed ASAP.