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Originally Posted by VarSity
Im starting to dislike the Typhoon. I seem to hear almost constant negatives. Wasnt it designed to combat these Russian built fighters? Shouldnt it be doing some damage?!
Oi George, let us have some F22;s?
Thanks George!
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the only people slagging Typhhon
as an aircraft are, unsurprisingly, those who just happen to be flogging a competitor to it...
you can make an arguement that 270-odd Mach 2+ fighters aren't quite what the RAF needs when it's AT, CAS and SH fleets are operating at full-tilt and are falling apart, but that has very little to do with Typhoons capabilities as a high-end fighter/swing-role aircraft.
the USAF appears to think that the only aircraft that Typhoon won't remove from the sky in large numbers is the F-22, and as they are the one power that isn't flogging a Typhoon competitor i'm reasonably happy with their impartiality.
you might also - particularly given the USAF's assesment of Typhoons A2A capabilities - ask yourself about the likelyhood of RAF landbased aircraft being involved in major air combat without the USAF's F-22's in close attendance at any stage in the next 40 years. of course should you wish to piss away the defence budget on $200m a pop A/C that are utterly surplus to our needs purely so that we can look 'cool' then go ahead...