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Alex Walton wrote:

Seems you've been missing the point throughout this whole debate. No
one, including Paul, has claimed that Typhoon is equal to or better
than F-22 on a plane to plane basis.

The claim is that on a fleet wide basis the same amount of money's
worth of Typhoons will make a greater contribution against expected
threats than Raptors. Obviously this will not be equal numbers as the
Raptor (as a weapon system) is significantly more expensive than
Typhoon.

Your obsession with stealth is ignoring many other operational
aspects.

The two big advantages the Eurofighter will have is that it's cheaper
and easier to maintain. Secondary advantage is that it can haul more
weapons for ground attack roles, if you strap them onto external pylons.

Being able to carry a bunch of weapons isn't that much of an advantage,
if the other side can see you coming from twice or four times as far
away.

In every other aspect of warfare, being able to see and shoot at the
other side well before they can see you is a huge advantage. Why is
that suddenly different for one or two types of arircraft?

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