Sorry to split hairs here Sooty. The aircraft as designed, may have had the potential for an air to ground role but, as first built, did not have the capability. It did not drop a bomb of any sort until it had been in service for some years and, even now, is not deployed on any task requiring the dropping of bombs.
See also this.
Early RAF Typhoons to be retired
The Royal Air Force is to lose up to 55 of its early ‘Tranche 1’ Eurofighter Typhoons.
Gary Parsons - 13-Jan-2011
Early Typhoons could be retired as early as 2015. Key – Gary Parsons
January 13: The Guardian newspaper reports that the Royal Air Force is to lose up to 55 of its early ‘Tranche 1’ Eurofighter Typhoons by 2015 in further cost-cutting measures.
Introduced in 2005, the early aircraft will be retired as it will be “too expensive” to upgrade them to the latest Tranche 3 standard, says the report.
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