An End to British Aircraft?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

Maybe there is need for another round of industry nationalization.

Like they did with airline business before this globalization and over free market hassle...

Not under Tory rule...they are sellers not collectors.

Something is wrong in England, it's been that way since the war ended.
I believe the rot started in the 60s, why, I don't know.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by sidslotm

Something is wrong in England, it's been that way since the war ended.
I believe the rot started in the 60s, why, I don't know.

One of the biggest crimes in modern British history that...

[MH]

Common UK you don't need big guns do you?
Make more of your great hi fi systems instead and make them cheaper.

One of the biggest crimes in modern British history that...

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.

[MH]

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The eurofighter project as ambitious as it is seems not very cost effective and possibly getting somewhat outdated.

[BossMark]

Bloody rotten lousy Tories are totally destroying our once great country, not much more I can say on the subject without getting a warning

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by MH

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.

1965, when the TSR2 was cancelled. The TSR2 filled the criteria that were eventually met by the Tornado, but the Tornado didn't appear until 1979 so the UK used Buccaneers and Phantoms to fill the gap. A(nother) really bad day for British industry.