The point has already been made-13 prods seems way over the top. I would expect about 7 brackets over the 4 legs. All trails to the U.S. are via Lajes but even for the Typhoon the max level for deployments in that airspace is F280 (ie non-RVSM). I originally thought the article in the DM was just ****e reporting, it seems the source documents were crap also.