- Establish the requirements for the programme.

It’s that the pistol is held sideways that increases the badassery!

I remember that story well Odin, but it was bunk... Pressed hard by the likes of Tyler & David Axe to hammer home their agenda.

Posting a link to a 100-page PDF over & over again is not a counter argument.

Originally it should have been more agile and capable than every alternative out there

Yeah, the Typhoon seems to be a bit stuck.

The wiki article for the F35 says as such....

Much is..... but not all by any stretch.

Those specs seem to be changing time and again as well.

The numbers you are using are not in any way based on reality or flyaway cost.

They didn’t compete in the competition.

Everything you wrote was wrong.

What matters is not having to tell people: “We’re closing this hospital and these schools. Oh, btw, we’re buying a plethora of cutting edge, grotesquely expensive attack fighters, too.”

The unit price of the Gripen is about the same as the F35...

The Danes have only 30 operable F-16s at this point... so it is practically like for like.

In terms of weapons though, I’m not sure the US will hold the edge.

Good question.

they are a member of NATO which makes buying american sort of mandatory

There is money involved

They spent several years and around €20m coming to this decision.