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Old 28th Jul 2015, 12:54
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Jackonicko
 
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Tourist,

The point has been made perfectly by others:

“There are those that know and then there are those that talk out of their hoop.”

You demonstrably do have something “against the Typhoon,” as is evident from your posts on this thread and elsewhere.

You say that: “Lobbing bombs from above in a near zero threat environment is not combat.”

You should perhaps tell that to those mourning the losses of the Jordanian and Moroccan pilots in recent ops, or indeed to the Saudi F-15 crew who were luckier when they ejected from their aircraft.

The Typhoon has always been intended to be multi-role for the RAF (look back at AST403 or 409) and especially for the Saudis. Thus it’s not accurate to claim that: the “Primary role of Typhoon is to shoot down other aircraft.”

You’re equally inaccurate when claiming that: “even the bomb lobbing had helpers.” Typhoons in the Libyan do did sometimes take advantage of third party laser designation by Tornados, but they also spiked for themselves and for Tornado.

Since then, of course, the Saudis have used PWII and PWIV (self-designated using Damocles) and strafe in combat.

I’d call that pretty ‘proven’
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