Originally Posted by
The Range
Not a 7 yr. kid nor a Russian troll either. I just wanted to know how good is the Typhoon.
I am really surprised that there are not masses of responses to this post.
On the positive side the aircraft seems to do everything that it was designed to do, that primarily being air to air. It has big wings and two very powerful (as well as being highly reliable engines). It has also sold reasonably well given its high price. While there are some obvious benefits in multi national programmes there are some key drawbacks. It has taken far too long to be a true multi role fighter with the 4 nations having differing requirements and that has adversely affected sales prospects.
The primary difficulty is that it is not a 5th generation jet at the time that this is the current flavour of the month.
Having worked on the engine during the development programme I too am interested in comments on how good it really is...