The biggest problem Britain has is that it tries to punch above its weight. Vast somes of money are spent keeping troops and equipment in warzones all over the world so that Tony Blair can cayy on thinking he is the most important person in the world. Yet at the same time he refuses to cough up the money to do this.
Britain is faced with a stark choice, either scale back operations or increase spending.

There seems to be a belief (and I tend to agree) that India has reached a Geopolitical position whereby it would be unlikely for it to have sanctions imposed upon it if a foreighn power launched an unprovoked attack.
Another Issue I have been told about is a budgetery one, the IAF and Indian government in general are keen on keeping this programme on within budget, thus they would like to avoid the introduction of large numbers of new systems, and the Mig offers greater commonality with the flanker force.
Although it has not been suggested to me ,I wonder whether the offer of advanced F16s to pakistan has refocused India on a air-air role, and although the Migs superiority over the Mirage in this arena is questionable, it can carry more AAM’s and with the possible future addition of an Irbis 29 it would be greatly enhanced.
Obviously this could all change and the Mirage could be procured, we all know how fluid defence procurement can be.

So Rick, would you like to enlighten us as to what these problems are? Seeing as you seem to know everything about one of the most secretive military projects in china if not the world.

Which just shows that there will never be an operational flatpack, just bits of it in other aircraft.

here, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45013

I think the biggest disadvantage the Typhoon has when it comes to marketing at the moment, is that alot of the features that are suggested for the future (TVC, AMSAR, CFT’s etc) is that they have yet to be fully intergrated and excepted for the aircrfaft, and many of the governments involed in the project have a habit of cuttin defence spending, with duch projects being a prime target. Knowbody wants to be stuck with an aircraft for which they have to pay all the development cost in order to get the full potential.