Poorly Eurofighter.

[Sparky191]

It was from our point of view supposed to be a high level inteceptor like the Tomcat, except at altitude it was slow and it's manouverability was again poor at altitude. They were finding that the jets we were using at the time were faster and far more manouverable at altitude, which is fine when engaging from range but as soon as anything got close to them they were not good enough, in a time where it was designed to take on a half descent airforce with Migs and backfire bombers it was weak, A Tornado would struggle to deal with Mig 29's, as an interceptor it's abilities were somewhat limited, it couldn't perform in any way as a fighter jet, as it was too slow and cumbersome.

However as a plane that the germans wanted they got someting that was simply stunning, arguably only the F-15e could be considered better.

"High level" what that suppose to mean? Where are you getting your facts from? Its not a dogfighter, never was intended for use for dogfighting against other fighters but BVR combat and long loiter times for CAP. F14's the same, its also a long range BVR interceptor, also dire at dogfighting. Never intended to go up against MIGs. Just bombers and missiles, and BVR. Its was designed as a multirole Aircraft. Basically a bomber for deep penetration in all weather. Britain later added air defence version requirement.

Problem with pure air defence fighters like a F15A/C or the F22 is that they have a very limited role in todays conflicts. Fighters which are multirole like the F16/Harrier/F15E are much more useful.

 

[Sparky191]

....We should have saved all the money, time and political wrangling and bought a shed load of F22s instead.

Just buy an export version in few years time. Thats what most countries do with the F16/F15.