Originally Posted by Eclectic
the European Fighter Aircraft would "be a major project, costing the United Kingdom about £7 billion"
In 2011 the National Audit Office estimated the UK's "total programme cost [would] eventually hit £37 billion", for less aircraft.
Assuming you mean fewer aircraft rather than less
of an aircraft (as we nearly achieved both), are you allowing for the Germans buggering about with the RADAR fit, our lot sodding about with the gun fit, everyone sodding about with the final buy number and corresponding work-share and our lot sodding about again with the buy number and the production and delivery timetable?
t43562; you make a fair point. It reminds me of the "rationalisation" of the aircraft and missile industry in the late '50s. At least then, HSA could compete with BAC (and dear old Fred HP tried to compete with everybody) and nobody was daft enough to lump shipbuilders in with the deal.