Originally Posted by
Rhino power
That's a pretty poor analogy, the Scorpion would be useless for QRA duties, 450 kts max speed? It couldn't catch a cold!
-RP
Fair one - it was a poor choice of bird. However, the analogy, primarily aimed at demonstrating that we didn't need to spend north of £16BN to essentially service QRA, when we could have had something much simpler. F5, Flagon, etc remains valid.
In actual fact I wasn't trying to knock Typhoon either. It appears to be an excellent frame and will eventually end up with most or all of the capabilities required. As hopefully will QEC and F35. It's just that one has cost much more than the other, somehow without attracting the same opprobrium...