Typhoon Tranche 3B is already a thing of the past in the eyes of the MOD. There will be talks on the subject between industry and the partner nations however there will be no further orders. Industry seem to have realised that if all four countries refuse to order the aircraft then they have no hope of pushing the deal through, especially in the current economic climate.

The decision to acquire the F-35 has essentially been made. They probably need to decide on numbers of aircraft for the F-35 programme before 2015 and a contract is likely to be in place for the initial aircraft. They may split the purchase into two batches which would allow them to delay a firm decision on the total size of the F-35 fleet until the 2015 SDSR.

Other aircraft related decisions are required on the future of carrier AEW which will probably invlove moving the current mission systems from the Sea King fleet to the Merlins rather than the purchase of a new platform. Industry are still proposing plenty of different solutions for this but funding will dictate the solution I think.

A decision on what to do with the Sentinel fleet will also be needed and the various elements of MFTS will need to be firmed up (although this to an extent is an issue for Ascent rather than the MOD).

They also need to marinise the RAF Merlin fleet before it transitions to the Navy.

I’d imagine these will be old barely servicable MiG-29s. The Russian’s are making an effort to keep Israel onside at the moment and providing them with SMTs would not be the way to go about it. Plus the Russians are ploughing all the money they can get there hands on into modernising their own armed forces and I can’t see them paying MiG for SMTs for Lebanon when they still haven’t agreed to the upgrade for the own fleet.