...BAES was the reason for inflating the price of the modification of the carriers. This would be because BAES wanted to keep us in the market for the B model...
Courtney
Spot on as usual. They have just spent £150m on expanding a new factory to build JSF and also RR have investment in the lift fan tech - so I get more than a sniff of a whiff of corporate skullduggery. There is certainly no love lost between the coalition and the defence companies after MRA4. I believe there are just 2000 jobs at risk for JSF which is peanuts - give them each a £200k severence and that would soak up just £400m that we have supposedly wasted and we could have what we need in 2020ish. This has to be protectionism at the expense of defence capability (again!); and as usual the losers are those that have to do the best they can with the uber-expensive crap tools that our defence companies have sold us...
Grrrr
LJ