Wrath,
From my lowly position the choices are:
Fight today's war with today's kit and hope that there is time to prepare for tomorrow's war.
or
fight today's war with minimal kit and focus on getting th enew kit for tomorrow's war.
Torpy is quite clearly focussed on getting tranche 3 of the Typhoon come what may.
Now it might be argued that this is at the expense of dark blue naval air aspirations today and possibly even tomorrow if, as an airman, he believes that the best interests of the nation will be served by a flexible air force that can be deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in the world.
There are obviously many counter-arguments but those are my thoughts on where he might be coming from.