Typhoon vs. Rafale

This article is less interesting for its conclusions (that the Typhoon and Rafale are pretty similar fighters), than for the metrics of evaluation.  If you know anything useful about military aviation, you invariably cringe at articles that begin “The F-35 can’t out dogfight a MiG-21!” or some such nonsense.  Modern fighter aircraft vary on several different axes, and these axes combine in complex ways.  A seemingly minor metric such as “Are the cockpit controls easy for the pilot to understand?” can differentiate a decent fighter from a great one, in ways that are hard to explain to lay audiences.