Great profiles Robert! The Nigerian one looks particularly good. :)
If you fancy doing any more, how about the Netherlands or Belgium? they were both in the programme originally (see below).
I can really see the Canadian's getting Tornados.
A request: A Chilien one? - as 'payback' for assistance in the Falklands War...
We were actually part of the original MRCA project back in the beginning, along with France. I think we bailed first.
Second shot was the early 80s as part of the NFA program that led to us adopting the F-18.
Love the profiles!
Alvis 3.1
France was never in MRCA, because MRCA emerged from the wreckage of AFVG which died when the French left it. The original MRCA nations were Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands. Belgium left first, probably because it couldn't have afforded an expensive aircraft in realistic quantities. Canada was next to leave, not because of any particular arguments, but because the structure and missions of it's future armed forces were completely up in the air at the time, and they didn't want to commit to an expensive programme before they knew they'd need it or not. The Netherlands was the last to go, citing complexity, cost and development time as the reasons.
You might imagine an alternative scenario in which Belgium, the Netherlands and possibly Canada were persuaded to stay by the promise of some kind of multi-national "NATO Tornado fleet" arrangement with an efficient common logistics system, from which partners could draw aircraft without having to commit in advance to buying a fixed number.