From the point of view of my BAE shares - great news on the Lockheed Martin win (even if my dad thought it was Martin Baker - poor old soul). Also, can't help but agree on the Boeing ugly bug - yuk! It always looked to me like the short, fat, green, slimey ghost in "Ghostbusters" so no way to take it seriously.
Also, with no major German participation we should avoid all the equivocation that came with Eurofighter - "will we buy it? won't we buy it? will we use it to invade Poland again?" etc. etc. etc. Of course it will be late and over budget - but these things always are.
Thankfully the programme didn't get sh*tcanned - but what's the betting that it would have but for 11th sept?