The Typhoon wasn’t designed to fight F/A-22s, so the stealthy F/A-22 is obviously superior. Compared to all the other fighters available, the Typhoon is better or at least as good.

It’s going to be very good, but it’s not perfect. It will be the best fighter the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain have ever operated and the pilots will love it 🙂

If you enter Eurofighter or Typhoon in the search tool you will see all the previous threads on it.

Dispersal of forces is a good passive defence. I think all the current base closures are a very bad idea in light of the increasing cruise missile threat, I can see a Pearl Harbour situation happening where someone looses a lot of equipment in a cruise missile sneak attack.

Armed barrage balloons might be a good defence system with a bunch of missiles and sensors hanging from them.

The problem with European involvement in the JSF program is that each country is acting as a individual customer. If they had acted as one and joined at the same time, they might have found themselves in a better position.

In my opinion the JSF situation is more evidence that the EU isn’t going to work.

why is the RN very insistent on the JSF , compared to the Rafale which is equivalent to the Typhoon (RAFs future main fighter), already exists and can easily operate from the 60,000t carriers RN is planning. wont the french give them a sweet offset deal , being close buddies an all 😀 ?

The ASTOVL capability of the JSF is the only reason the UK needed to be in the program.

The RN didn’t know it might get carriers big enough to operate a CTOL airgroup so the STOVL JSF was the best option at the time. If the STOVL JSF gets cancelled the RN could buy the CV JSF, Rafale or Super Hornet but they only need about 60 so they might as well just buy the most cost effective solution.

Without STOVL JSF the RAF could buy more Typhoons to replace the Harriers, but this would probably be unnecessary due to defence cuts.

UK JSF website http://www.jsf.org.uk/

The FB-22s proposed bulged weapon bay doors for 2000lb bomb carriage and SDB carriage in the intake bays could relatively easily be applied to the F/A-22.

I can see the current F/A-22s becoming a formidable strike force 🙂