Re: @ wolfetone
>Sigh<
No.
The Eurofighter / Typhoon was designed to meet a number of requirements, including replacing the Jaguar ground attack aircraft in RAF service.
As I and others have said before it was always designed to have an air-to-ground capability.
It was not an expensive 'fudge' upgrade; it was a sequential development of planned capability, which is still on-going.
In fact, the UK were arguably the drivers for the current capabilities of Typhoon - the Germans in particular were reluctant to continue with the development of the aircraft as agreed, after 1990, and for a while pushed hard for a less capable (=cheaper) option.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
