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Old 11th Dec 2016, 22:15
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Originally Posted by typerated
Fair enough LJ,

But if we had brought 15s they would most likely still be in service!

I suspect then Typhoon would have been a none starter though
The Typhoon orginally was a Jaguar/Phantom replacement - remember the idea was for the F4 to serve into the early 2000s alongside the Tornado ADV. At the time, no-one really envisaged the Typhoon replacing the F3 as actually happened.
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