"It is a sad indictment of the British aerospace industry - BAe - that they cannot design and build the new advanced jet trainer."
I'm sure they could - but who will buy it? The market already has a number of new-ish trainers and they're not exactly ovverun with orders. You'd spend a few Billion of tax payers money and buy a couple of squadrons for the RAF - doesn't make economic sense. Perhaps if they'd developed a Hawk replacement 15 years ago things might be different .