Originally Posted by
unmanned_droid
No one cares that they employ UK companies to teach their aerospace firms how to build better products. Why should they care about this? Being a better pilot doesn't really mean much in a crap aircraft as far as tactics are concerned.
The more important questions are, as it's been going on for some time (I remember a rumour here about french aircrew working for the Chinese - as well as Israel cooperation) why now, and who did it? First I saw was Deborah Haynes thread on Twitter late last night.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, this does appear to be a story that the MoD has fed to the big nationals, with them all quoting the same sources. As to why they have chosen today to drawn the line in the sand, I can only suppose that earlier more discreet efforts to get the pilots to change their ways have not been successful, and so now the MoD has now decided to go nuclear.