Originally Posted by
Tourist
Courtney
Do you honestly think that is true?
This is not a dig at the basic airframe of the Typhoon, but the simple fact is that the toys have not really performed (yet).
The Tornado is still required to do the jobs that the Typhoon should be capable of doing by now.
Ironic that the Tornado which is a truly awful basic airframe has good toys, and the Typhoon really doesn't.
As I understand it, there are an awful lot of things ready to go on Typhoon; we're just counting down to the expirey date of a certain development sharing contract. I think there's a strong desire to keep the good stuff for ourselves/why should we let the others free-ride off us.