Typhoon ad : fair comment or darned cheek ?

There is a cheeky asserssion always repeated in all the Eurofighter publication or press releases dealing with the Typhoon :

Eurofighter Typhoon, the world’s most advanced swing-role combat aircraft

I had to chuckle. It’s pithy and pointed, and even funny. But is it fair?

I thought it was conceived with an accessory a/g capability, later developped adding more than 1.5 ton to the airframe because British wanted to replace Tornado (which was not a target objective at the begining).
I thought it was rejected in the Korean competition, were it has shown itself unable to technicaly defeat the brandnew F15.
I also thought Dutch were not evaluating it as good as the Rafale by a fair margin.

I thought that most of the clever stuff wouldn’t happen unless and until they got an export customer who would help pay for it, after evaluating it seriously (with same generation aircraft, not like in Austria) ?

Ok, That’s a game, I just reverted the situation. I hope it shows you another point of view… 🙂