I am still convinced that we should sack the typhoon...
Penalty clause?
...take the cash and buy ac out of the desert in the US of A and do a proper job
What aircraft? A10's that aren't for sale as the air force of the US of A is currently christmas treeing all those it can't coax back into the air to keep those it can supported?
Something else in the desert? Something old and expensive to support?
Something even older and not even used by the US anymore so even more expensive to support, if you can get it supported?
I'm all for giving the troops the best support they can but canceling the Typhoons and having to pay as much as it'd cost to accept them in penalties, then having to scrape money from somewhere else in the defence budget to try and buy aircraft that aren't available to us, or buy something that is available but will cost a shed load to support to do the job that the Typhoons would have been able to is the kind of light-headed nonsense you can often read on Arrse.