This will be my last post on here, but just to respond to the following statement:
"BAES cared about profit and not product."
Quite rightly so. BAES are a PLC and are primarily there to satisfy their shareholders. The profit they make as a result (largely from overseas trade) allow them to pay huge taxes which in turn help to pay the wages of the RAF/MoD personnel.
But don't confuse the primary motivation of the company with the primary motivation of the company employees. In many cases, the engineers at BAES care an awful lot more about the product than many of the RAF/MoD personnel. After all, they design and build the product - so they feel ownership (even though the taxpayer pays for it ultimately). As the MoD/RAF are simply users of the product (not too dissimilar to bus drivers really), why would they care more about it? They haven't designed it - they haven't built it - they haven't paid for it. How could they possibly care more about it than the engineers at BAES?
Over.
Ciao.
Last edited by mra4eng; 7th Jan 2011 at 17:26.