More money than sense? Qatar’s shopping spree for new fighters continues unabated

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Qatar’s signing for 36 Boeing F-15QA Advanced Eagle combat aircraft on the 22nd of December was the latest in series of fighter procurements that appear to fly in the face of operational logic, as the Gulf state looks set to replace just 12 ageing Dassault Mirage 2000s with upwards of 96 of the latest multirole combat aircraft spread across three different but highly similar types.