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€70 billion order to be delivered, 15 years late.
 The RAF could this week receive its first delivery of Eurofighter aeroplanes, only fifteen years later than planned.
The fighter plane, conceived during the height of the cold war, designed to excel in air-to air combat, particularly against Soviet forces, and built by Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy (France dropped out) has taken 30 years and €70 billion to complete.
"There is already a considerable buzz around frontline squadrons," the head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Squire, crisply told the press three weeks ago. "We've been waiting for this a long time... We were pretty terrified that we'd be involved in a major combat with the Kremlin while we were waiting for delivery, and over the last thirty years there have been a lot of our guys nervously peering out of the window waiting for the delivery guy to call..."
"Now the planes are finally to be delivered we all feel much safer. The Eurofighter is just the thing to keep those soviets at bay."
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