Euro fighter was designed to intercept mig29's in the cold war that never turned hot(thankfully!)It is massively late and enormously over budget!The UK will probably sell some of the massive surplus they have ordered to the Saudi's as they often buy our old rubbish-think Tornado air defence variant!!
Typhoon is yesterdays aeroplane and the sooner the UK can get hold of some JSF the better it will be for the country.
Rapier is a short range sam and I know of no rapier batteries permanently established in Wales.
NAT tracks move every 12 hours due to forecast wind conditions-minimum time routes.
Civil aircaft frequently fly up to 207 minutes from a suitable airport-it is called ETOPS(engines turning or passengers swimming)
US stealth aircraft are now over a decade old and this technology has been superceded
