Personally I'm thinking the next government if labour will definitely throw GCAP under the buss and try and hash a french plane , personally if I was BAE, I would turn around to the next government and say,we have a perfectly good plane and team up in gcap and if you want to throw it all under the ...

Who is this “we “ he’s referring to?

If he means Europe well most of it has gone for the F35

Given the potential volume of drones would it be possible / advisable to embark a couple of Starstreak teams? Just to give that extra layer.

Start a recruiting office in Aberdeen there'll be no shortage of resource these days

Boeing are in a serious pickle. Buying.Spirit means reversing the strategy of the last 2 decades.And they bring the liability back onto their books - no one else to blame now.

Luckily they still have a few dumb customers like us prepared to pay twice the USAF price for a P8 LOL

UK Research and Innovation, part of BIS, has a 25 billion GBP budget over the next 3 years.

Surely some of that could be tipped into productionising UN sovereign defence technologies, or at least making up some of the cost deta

Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're...

Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're...

Heretical thought here - should we be buying ANY non-marinised helicopters from here on in? Given the pretty clear tilt to an expeditionary CONOPs. Where exactly is an Army-only helicopter going to be used? BAOR doesn't exist anymore. The USMC don't operate Blackhawk. Or Chinook. Or Apache. I'd put ...

Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're ...

I'dhave thought composites

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1966306/business-economy

SW1 wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 17:09 They’ll be falling over themselves to buy the Boeing T7 red hawk knowing them.

"Proven low cost off the shelf option" LOL

It's interesting. Aeralis are confirmed subsonic only, ie going for "everything below T7 / M346 / T-50". Which is quite a huge market, but not a LIFT for a 5th/6th gen fighter. But for sure there'll be synergies. For one thing Aeralis are now half owned by the Qatar sovereign wealth find, ...

Interesting. I don't see how the Aeralis concept could be applicable to the LIFT part - it would surely need to be supersonic.

Maybe some kind spin out of GCAP using M346 as a base

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/k ... 024-01-29/

Wow that's a nice little earner - put 6 million in, and cash out with 49% of a billion dollar IPO

To be fair the current CEO has tidied it up massively UK land is tiny, basically just 40% of RBSL, which may well be sold eventually I guess they see ship repair as not within Maritime because it's not product-driven, they're not developing anything. The funny one is Air Astana - they own an airline...

Order book is 70 billion and climbing! Here's a link for those who want to nerd out https://investors.baesystems.com/~/media/Files/B/BAE-Systems-Investor/pdfs/results-and-reports/results/2024/2023-full-year-presentation-transcript.pdf I found slides 31 and 52 really interesting, for example Order ba...

The thing is though many of these issues have affected every advanced manufacturing organisation in the world - Covid, supply chain, new production sites retiring workforce.- and they deal with them

Toyota runs 10 plants in the other Carolina

Air safety is complex. If you think you’ve got it all sorted and wrapped, you’re courting disaster. It is. But even after disaster years of it and repeated assurances Boeing still hasn’t got a grasp of the basics. The Rot is right through in Boeing it would seem. Had this conversation last year wit...

I meant more an "autonomous aircraft that can be thrown into A2A combat, figure out who the enemy is and defeat them". If they cannot do that then how can they replace fighter pilots? And if they need a manned fighter to act as "Mothership" what's to say the enemy won't just igno...

My .02 EUR worth - the manned fighter has been pronounced dead a few times. I mean, has a fully autonomous (as opposed to remotely piloted) aircraft actually flown? And if so why aren't we deploying them commercially? Possibly starting with airfreight. What about rules of engagement, hacking (which ...

Here's an interesting take on it https://www.timesaerospace.aero/news/events/wds-uk-moves-in-on-new-saudi-typhoon-order "But industry and UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) insiders reported that the German block had been just one factor in halting the planned deal, and that the RSAF was ‘holding out...

IMHO if LIS means anything that platform, or an evolution of it should basically own the light and medium strands of the LMP. They wouldn't need to be delivered in one batch - could be fed in at 100-200 a year as legacy platforms are phased out. The benefits of commonality and a short supply chain f...

If BAE are smart they'll keep the culture and add capital + marketing muscle. Personally I think it's exciting, we (UK PLC) really need to scale up in UAVs

I have to say, after listening to their founder, I question whether Aeralis have been going for the right market. Is fast jet training really a commodity? I mean if you get it slightly wrong / sub optimal you could end up losing many multiples of the the cost of the training platform. If I were an a...