When it was planned to replace the Tornado with the Typhoon, a lot of diplomatic effort was made to explain this was a like for like exchange. This cunning ruse was exploded - inadvertently - at a Waddington when then AOC 1 Gp enthusiastically described the greatly enhanced capabilities of thje Typhoon to an open audience - which happened to include the ARG Naval Attache. A diplomat demarche ensued, which could have been avoided if a VSO had employed a degree of political discretion.