Originally Posted by dave angel

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.