The Royal Air Force, which had ordered 144 Eurofighters in two earlier contracts, is committed to buying another 88 as part of its membership of the Eurofighter consortium with Germany, Italy and Spain.
I am being naive I guess. But if we stand to lose (say) 2 or 3 a year and not even considering combat losses or replacing tired aeroplanes.. in a little over a decade or so won't we be down to stupidly low levels with hardly any reserves?