Yes, Kitbag, I think you have a point there. In the days when spending on projects was taken "at risk" (meaning they didn't have the funding for a particular part of a project, but hoped that it may eventually come through) the thinking you suggest did happen. At the time, Typhoon was soaking up massive amounts of the Defence Budget. But so were a number of new programmes, JSF included. And that is where the silly old git Sharkey is aiming his ill-informed rabid rants. He might be better placed aiming at the politics behind the programmes than at the arms that operate them.