James
I believe that Dassault are in the same dire straits as BAe - no orders. Therefore, they are likely to take the tech and give a gaulic shrug and then try and save themselves. That said, an order for 10-20 aircraft is going to save neither. They've missed the boat and the market is already flooded with fully working MALE unmanned systems. Even the export controlled countries are now on the horizon with IAI selling Heron to Tanzania or Kenya and General Atomics selling Predator XP to the UAE.
BAe would do better to concentrate on Taranis (although the UK cancelled the DPOC requirement it was aiming for in SDSR) as at least they are only 2 years behind the US. Not 10-15 years as they are with Mantis/Telemos. But I suspect that high end vehicles like Taranis are going to be more export constrained and likely to be too expensive for mass exports.
We would be better of turning Warton into the next Mini production plant - now wouldn't that be a turn up when BAe sold the rights to Mini (under MGRover) many moons ago. At least that way we would actually be producing something for export.
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