An End to British Aircraft?

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Originally Posted by sidslotm

Yeah, thats right, Mountbatten was involved, along with Labour.

I worked in engineering all my life until I was 50, one of the big big problems engineering had was that people did not work hard enough. The multinational I worked for invested in new machine tools costing a million each, but the amount of time they were idle was unbelievable, combined with the incomes the people where earning. So I was not supprised to hear the machine tools were shipped to Czechoslovakia and now working out there.

I don't know much about British MI but as far as recall Britain gave up on military aviation development in favor of ballistic missiles during cold war around 60s.
The option of getting American armament contributed to this too.
The eurofighter project as ambitious as it is seems not very cost effective and possibly getting somewhat outdated.