In message , Chad Irby
writes
In article ,
(Michael Petukhov) wrote:
But the first Eurofighters, which are now being delivered
considerably behind schedule, are virtually useless.

But... but... people here keep telling me that the Eurofighter is really
inexpensive, nearly perfect, and everyone in Europe is going to buy them
all!

Read some US GAO reports. According to them, the F/A-22 shakes itself to
pieces when it flies, fails every fifteen minutes, is escalating hugely
in cost, misses most of its performance requirements, has avionics that
simply don't work because of repeated unsolved software crashes, and is
inferior to the F-15 it's meant to replace.

Do you believe that? Or is there a core of truth in each claim that is
being wildly exaggerated and distorted to suit an agenda?


Not that journalists (or even analysts) will _ever_ write the story
their audience want to hear rather than honestly reporting the truth...

--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk