I do find some comments strange ; I'm with the camp that says how about we make sure we can win the fight we're in and protect as many lives as possible ,before looking at capability to fight any others, shortsighted it may be but how many more troops have to be blown up by IEDs due to lack of SH?
I'm also confused as to why the first variant of Typhoon had to be the AD variant and not the GR ,considering the amount of live CAS sorties flown compared to confirmed RAF air-to-air kills over the last 25 yrs.
As a layman are to two variants that different that a change couldn't have been introduced into the production line when it was fairly obvious that the only wars we can afford to fight were going to be counter insurgency?