dead pan,
We shouldn't be too scathing, at least the Typhoon's won't need to do an expensive heavy weapons det to Davis Monthan. And think of all those Guillemots on Garvie that won't be pestered by the crack of HE.
Smart move. Get a first combat tick doing air defence where there are no opposing aircraft and air to ground where you have a whole host of hulks parked up to plink at.
Might just help offset the HoC Defence Select Committee article on Typhoon in the BBC news today.
£125million a pop with a total programme cost of £20billion. Gulp.
Makes other oft criticised programmes look cheap.