British Air Power in T2K

[perardua]

Also, why call the Eurofighter a Spitfire rather than Typhoon (i.e. it's actual name)?

[RN7]

Originally Posted by perardua

Also, why call the Eurofighter a Spitfire rather than Typhoon (i.e. it's actual name)?

Because the Eurofighter was only named the Typhoon on the 2nd September 1998 at a naming ceremony at Farnborough. The name Typhoon was actualy resisted by Germany because of the RAF Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber of WW2 which chewed up the German army in Western Europe and North Africa, but Britain, Italy and Spain were in favour of it. Before that the British had pushed for the name Spitfire II which the Luftwaffe for obvious reasons wasn't to happy with either.

In T2K Italy joins the Commy block, and Spain who I'm not to sure who's side it was on, pulled out of the Eurofighter as well, leaving Britain and Germany to develop it. The British named their Eurofighters the Spitfire, while the Germans probably named their ones something more agreable to them.