BEagle,
BWos IS Airbus! Airbus UK is BWos!
Boss raptor,
I see the point you are making now, thanks for the clarification. My global point of view still applies though, the change is an industry wide thing, after the F-35 and F/A-22 the US is in exactly the same position.
We only have the one company capable of producing what we loosely call a fighter, the US only has two, after F-35 there will probably only be one.
Sytems are now the in thing, we still have 2 global players in this area who can compete with the world and lead it in many areas, final assembly is low tech and doesen't really add any value, in the Airbus scheme of things it doesen't even add that many jobs.