Just think about this scenario boys and girls: T2 is going to be the LIFT for Typhoon (RAF and KSA). Will also be used to prep the KSA F-15 crews. Add a little imagination and you'll see T2s being developed as LIFT for F35 (don't forget Aus are looking at an MLU which gets them a simliar cockpit via a different route).. and to be very very inventive, if pride could be swallowed, Indian Hawks to be developed as LIFT for the Rafale (with a later variant built under licence by Dassault back in the land of the Frog to replace aging Alpha Jets). This would leave a T-X decision much more open than one might expect. There's life in the old bird yet!