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BAE upgrades part production facilities at fighter jet factory

I used the term "pitiful shred of an aircraft industry" most deliberately, and would question a claim for ours as the second largest in the world. It might just be so if we took "aviation industry", but I point out that since Britain last put a major new indigenous combat aircraft into service- ie the 1960's, France, the US, Russia, China, Sweden, to name but a few have done so. Sweden has put into service three times as many indigenous supersonic combat aircraft as the UK. It is highly doubtful for many reasons, that Britain could produce a major combat aircraft on our own. We are not a part of Airbus, but make parts for them. Yes, pitiful shred seems a fair description.

4 Apr 2012

12:52 pm