US airforce finally admitted that they have worse planes.

[viper]

Actually the original designation for the F/A-22 is the F-22A... just like the Eurofighter Typhoon, an air to ground capability has been added after the aircraft has been optimised for air combat.... the F-22 is actually the most agile air combat aircraft in the west (the Mig 1-42 is more agile in the east) with the Typhoon as second best.

Some interesting events....
- In the mid 90\'s 5 Su-27\'s deployed to america and played war games with the USAF and USN, the Flankers won every engagement.
- In the summer of 2004, 2 USAFE F-15\'s jumped a pair of Typhoon T1\'s (the less capable TRAINER version) in the low level loops of North Wales.... they jumped the Typhoons from the rear and a dogfight started, within 15 seconds the Typhoons had got on the F-15\'s tails and scored 2 kills.
- During last year, the Singapore air force held a competition for their next fighter (to replace their ageing Skyhawks), the final runners were the F-15F, Typhoon and Rafale. Each aircraft was put through its paces in a series of tests and combat engagements against the Singapore Air Forces state of the art F-16s. The Typhoon was the only one to successfully complete ALL the tests, inculding a single Typhoon engaging 3 F-16s in a dogfight at once... and it won! However, Singapore are expected to order the F-15 because as per usual, the US government have threatened Singapore \"buy our aircraft or we give you sanctions\" as they do with all defence export contracts and one of the main reasons they win them.

Vips

p.s. It must also be noted that a 3D thrust vectoring system is in development for the Typhoon. If this is installed onto the Typhoon aswell as a proposed uprated engine, it will make it more manouverable than the F-22 with its 2D thrust vectoring and the F-35 (which apparently will not be more manouverable than the current Harrier).