The EF would have been an awesome plane - if it was out in the 90s...
Let's sum it up:
- it's over 10 years late
- has no stealth capabilities
- way too expensive
- it's 2011, yet there's still no thrust vectoring
This plane is friggin joke. On the other hand, it's the perfect weapon to scare the crap out of some 3rd world countries...
Too bad the "Allied" didn't lose any over Libya.
Rumor has it it came out as the favorite of the swiss airforce, they evaluated the EF, Rafale and Grippen.
Should that prove to be true, for the time in my life I'll join the lefties and vote it down.