These aircraft have guarded our skies for 25 years or so. We are still using the attack version of this aircraft but these dedicated fighters are no more. They still had a large number of hours left on the airframe and would have made a good dedicated electronic attack machine, unfortunately the bean-counters thought otherwise and along with the Harrier and Nimrod have been scrapped. About five years earlier, these same bean-counters got rid of the Jaguar attack aircraft, having just spent millions on their upgrades. Governments don't have any money of their own, they have ours, what we pay in taxes. I beg the question, if the money DID come out of their wallets, would they be as wasteful with it?
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