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Originally Posted by Mohoender
I have no real idea about the Typhoon (I would like to know, however, why you said it is such a failure? Despite the fact it is quite expensive)
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First it was made by commitee, the Tornado program was organised, streamlined and each nation had clear deadlines for submitting changes and inprovements. With the Typhoon the nations involved kept submitting new ideas and changes with no structure, forcing the design to be constantly re-evaluated. The result is an aircraft with no clear function, designed to do everything well while suffering from the same problems as most JOAT (jack of all trades) aircraft. The range is too low, the payload is too small and it's too damn expensive for what it is.