Originally Posted by
Melchett01
As I mentioned previously, we could do worse than have a look at France and Sweden who seem to be more capable of building an end-to-end capability than we do with either similar or lower capacity.
Isnt Saab's military aircraft division a wholly owned BAE subsidiary? I'm sure they had something to do with the Gripen....
But what you're saying about "if you dont have the desire and the technological ability together, you dont have an end to end industry" - yep, I agree, logically that is very hard to disagree with.