Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Nutloose,
That bit part player the British aircraft industry that you are knocking just happens to be the second largest aerospace industry on the planet.
Give the tired old cliches and stereotypical nonsense a rest eh?
They might well be but unless the RAF wants a set of wings without a fuselage to hang them on, an engine without an aircraft, a missile that's launched from the ground, a set of undercarriage legs with nothing to support, then the UK Aerospace industry is totally pointless and a bit player..
Name a current modern military aircraft we produce in house, name an airliner we produce in house.. We might be the second biggest, but we have become a parts supplier, nothing more, nothing less, and it's going to get worse, when we buy in the all singing all dancing F35 from abroad, remember that, the aircraft we are a prime development financier of, but down the pecking order and below the likes of Israel when it comes to receiving them. Ohhh and before I forget, we might then have the all singing all dancing F-35 but we will be reliant on the most unstable unreliable country in NATO who are cosying up to our main threat to provide and maintain the engines for the fleet, namely Turkey.
And you think we are still the all singing all dancing 2nd aerospace country in the world.... Long since gone and reliance on the products of the likes of the USA simply drives a stake through both our capability and our independence.
If you want to look at a country that has the capability and foresight to still knock out there own military fighters I suggest you learn Swedish.
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