And what complaints will there be if there is no CAS aircraft to support the troops dropped of by the Helicopters?
If you want an airforce that can drop troops into trouble but do little or nothing but watch them die from the edge of threat envelope fine bin the typhoon order and order shed fulls of chinooks etc but when the troops on the ground are in contact and need something bigger than a minigun to support them they need a something with a little bit of punch. Typhoon is being procured to replace the Jaguar as well as the Tonka F3 remember Jaguar.....single seat ground attack aircraft used to live in coltishall used to be wheeled out periodically to drop bombs on people. Was gapped to save money!!