I find it hard to believe that so many posters here are so critical of one of the few successful manufacturing companies left in the UK. Nobody says they are perfect and they have had to admit to resorting to using money in a dodgy way to support the Saudi contract. But that was, and is, a contract that has created a great deal of wealth for the UK and a considerable influence in the industries of Saudi.
I hope most of the critical posts are from the French and the Americans because they are the people we had to compete with and they are the only ones to gain from BAE Systems discomfort. I hope we don't have too many Brits here determined to score own goals.