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Old 27th Dec 2010, 13:45
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Navaleye
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I agree with Jacko that we should get maximum value out of the kit we have. Binning T1s at such an early stage is madness given huge sums the tax payer has already forked out.

The reality is what the country needs now is exports. What it doesn't need is more cold war jets. The more Typhoons we sell the more we can backfill with newer better and more flexible F35s downstream. There is no air threat to the UK and the risk in manageable.
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