Born in the 70s, when Europe was a cauldron of failed high end fighter designs and industry consortia that dissolved into the void, and for some time held alive only by the stubbornness of an industry which refused to die, the Typhoon has developed into a mature design and a most capable fighter. It certainly looks as avant-garde today, even among F22s and Rafales and Gripens and latest-generation F16s as the original EFA looked in the 80s, among Phantoms and Tornadoes.
