Luftwaffe Tornado replacement
On January 31, the German defence ministry announced it had eliminated the F-35 from the list of options for its Tornado replacement programme, leaving just the F/A-18E/F and the Eurofighter in contention. This came as a shock to most observers, who had assumed the contest had become a twohorse race between the F-35 and the Eurofighter. Jon Lake takes a look behind the headlines.
