When they proposed the idea, they kinda forgot it needed air-to-air weapons. Due to some backwards bueracracy, they decided using American AMRAAMs wasn't a good idea, so they've been waiting all this time for a new medium-range air to air missile to be developed.
By the time the thing ever gets deployed, it will be superceeded. What use is it being the best at BFM (I understand this is its main selling point) when it is being shot down at 50 miles by an electronically superior system?
I was reading a while ago that its RCS is not what they hoped for, either.
Sounds like the typical screw-up.
Scrap it now, and buy the F-22.
ECAM Actions.