Too many howlers for my liking, the worst (given the ISD of Foxhunter) being;
“Part of the problem was lack of experience in fighter radars in Britain”
The previous 10-15 years had seen Ferranti’s Fire Control and Surveillance Radar Division, Edinburgh develop and produce Blue Fox (FRS1), Blue Vixen (FRS2), ECR90 (Typhoon) and Blue Kestrel (Merlin 1). OK, the last is not for a fighter, but contains some of the juicy bits of the others. Then add Sea Spray (RN Lynx), some commercial variants of the above and a multitude of overseas customers. And their work on AI23, AWG 10/11/12 and Blue Parrot.
Then;
“with Ferranti supplying some components”
As I recall, Ferranti supplied most of the clever but their LRUs sat on the shelf for years waiting for the prime contractor’s output.
Looks like the article was written post-2000 so the lack of understanding as to Ferranti’s capability is perhaps understandable – they lost many an MoD contract because of similar ignorance in MoD.