Why did the RAF choose the Typhoon and not the F18?
Many, many reasons, but here’s the absolute three most important.
- Typhoon sounds a lot cooler than F18
Even if we use both aircrafts’ NATO reporting names, let’s face it, a typhoon wins hands down. A typhoon is mean, threatening, a real danger to life. It’s ominous, it’s dangerous, it’s announcing your impending doom. Whereas the hornet? Yeah, it’s a small insect that might do you some harm, if it stung you. And as for the Super-Hornet? well, it sounds like something out of a marvel film, not a top-drawer fighter plane.
They really aren’t in the same ball park, are they?
2. The F 18’s got wonky wings
So, yeah, have you ever had an Airfix model, and glued something in place and it drifted to one side or the other because you’d been distracted by your mum offering you a bowl of Angel Delight? That kinda looks like what happened here. Sloppy workmanship or what! You’ve got to wonder what else is lop-sided in that kite. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t let union lads and lasses onto the workforce and give them decent workers’ rights.
Jerry-built, mate.
3. No one ever builds a pub near an F18 base.
What’s that all about? This is an absolutely crucial component of national security. If the aircrew can’t woop it up in the Officer’s Mess, and if the ground crew can’t go out on the lash in the local town and mix it with the civvies, then the British military fabric will simply dissolve. I cannot over-emphasise how crucial this is to the defence of the realm, and in this, the F18 just hasn’t got what it takes.
So there you have it, the three most important reasons why the jolly old RAF chose the Typhoon over the Hornet, cogently argued with sublime logic. Who can argue with that?
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