Eurofighter?? Oh thats so weak.
Well, it's not as if the Austrians are going to convert them into F-35 orders.
She's a SUWEEET plane, but at $100 MILLION per copy? Centre-left, centre-right, doesn't matter. The plane is NOT worth the money, and should be cancelled. The JSF or the F-22 is far better bang for the buck.
Boy, those French aeroplane builders ain't doing so well of late, huh? Eurofighter orders being cancelled, AirbusT 380 orders being cancelled due to contract violations, it must really SUCK to be European if you're in the aircraft building business.
Just out of curiosity? How are the major threats to European stability and how likely are they to attack?
The Spaniards fly those...I was deployed last year to their airbase in Moron, and they flew the Eurofighters.
One thing that baffled me is, they flew their practice patterns with the landing gear down 100% of the time, almost as if they had no confidence on the hydraulic system's ability to extend the gear once it was retracted...
Bah. Manned fighters, with sole exception of the F-22, are already outdated.
We're flying 1,000 UAV's and UCAV's per day in Iraq alone right now.
A few ancient Eurofighters aren't going to stop a swarm of 1,000 UCAV's from Iran or China or Russia or Turkey, much less multiple swarms of multiple thousands of UCAV's attacking from multiple directions.