The Typhoon “has alarm” since when?

Since, well, “never”.
And unless the proverbial Martians declares war tomorrow to UK PLC, the probability of that particular weapon being integrated in the Phoon is very dim. The useful life of the missiles is ending and the production line is closed for quite some time.

Cheers

I think JDRADM is a really clever idea, and hope there will be a Meteor II with the same dual role.

Completely agree with that one, wrote the same thing a few weeks ago in the thread about Anglo French cooperation.

You may want to recheck your facts on how well JASSM performs. The bugs it had, have been fixed, and….it has a longer range than Storm Shadow.

1º Swerve mentioned that the JASSM has not to this day demonstrated the reliability of the Storm Shadow in 2003, and AFAIK thats a fact. In its entire tests runs, the JASSM has never achieved the equivalent of 25 hits and one miss that the MBDA weapon demonstrated in combat operations in 2003. To my knowledge, the best test run was in October 2009, Eglin where it achieved a very decent 15 sucesses for one miss, before that it was a disaster, by the begging of 2009 its hit rate was slightly below 60%. That confirms that the latest batche(s) of the JASSM is indeed fine and dandy has you have asserted, but i wouldnt put my hand over fire for the hundreds and hundreds of rounds produced while they were solving the “bugs”.

2º The vanilla versions of the JASSM and Storm Shadow have roughly equivalent ranges, the JASSM ER and the Naval Scalp also have roughly equivalent ranges. If the British in the future lay a requirement for a longer range CASOM, MBDA will be more than happy to pick the Naval Scalp, drop the ejectable booster and “presto” a one thousand km air launched version of the Storm Shadow.

Are the Europeans comfortable with this?

Yes. There´s no requirement for an air superiority fighter in the entire region that its not confortably met or exceed by the actual generation of fighters, and this for the next decade and a half (at least). The only theoretical “threat”, Russia, in the last year and a half has slashed 40% of their Fast Jet combat fleet, 1/4 of their state budget is direct revenues of gas and oil sales to western Europe, the economical agreements between the Russians and European Union countries (specialy Germany) pile up at quite a fast speed, so…
There´s no foreseable direct conventional threat to Western Europe.
In terms of production lines and technology, the last home orders for the twin Eurocanards will be ending of this decade, beggining of the next, whatever cames of the UCAV programs will begin deliveries right after those last fighters got delivered, after that its almost impossible to foresee the specifications for the anti air mission, it might be anything, from a manned fighter, to a UCAV, to a satelite with a solid state laser, to…

That’s an interesting interpretation of events to stay polite.

Thats exactly what happened.

The Royal Air Police.
What a fall!

If this “six sqn” thingy goes ahead, the RAF will (roughly) have the same number of fast jets that the RAAF or the Spanish Air Force.
With a bigger budget than the other two combined…
Gosh

Who would you rather believe in this matter. Dassault who has two deals worth nearly 20 billion at stake or the US Embassy who has no reason to lie to the USG in a classified cable.

Obviously in Dassault. Or do you really believe that a massive 800 thousand pages RFP answer would be based on propaganda?

That the French Rafale uses american components its not exactly a secret, that the core equipments of that fighter are french its not a secret either.
The exact same can be said of the two American designs, hell, if Boeing wins the MMRCA, in theory the British might very well deny the salle of the ejection seat, and the Germans could simply stop the delivery of the blisks for the F-414 (MTU produces almost 1/4 of the entire F414 and its not exactly the metal bending part)!

Just a couple of observations, but with these fleet rationalisations, maybe some of the capabilities and numbers wouldn’t be lost

With these “fleet rationalisations” (!!!) the RAF would lose 60% of its fast jet fleet, would lose the AWACS capability not to mention two thirds of its helicopter fleet…
Thank god that there is still some good sense in the British MOD