LAAGE - The chief of staff of the US Air Force, General John P. Jumper, was quoted Wednesday as praising the Eurofighter Typhoon after a test flight on the much-maligned jet, which has been in service just 11 weeks with the German Air Force.
"I've flown all the air force jets. None was as good as the Eurofighter," he said, according to an account by the German Air Force of his Tuesday try-out of one of the two-seater jets based at Laage Air Force Base near the Baltic coast city of Rostock.
The general praised the jet fighter for its agility, manoeuvrability, acceleration and precise navigation.
Critics have claimed over the years that the expensive plane, first conceived in 1983, would be obsolete before it finally went into service. A prototype first flew in 1994. The Germans' first planes were commissioned 30 April.
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http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=9711 Why would he say such a thing? Diplomacy? Trying to get Europe to invest more into defense? :shrug: 
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