Tuesday, January 21, 2003

The spirit of my post a few below lives on. I don't know the source (possibly the FT) but its about whether to give BAE or Thales the contract to build the new aircraft carriers (both of which will be built in the UK).

Thales is the sole competitor for the Fist contract too. "This decision fixes the industrial partner for the army for the next 30 years. If it is given to Thales then the future of the British infantry would lie with the French. So what was the point of Waterloo?" asked John Gutteridge, BAE's director of marketing in the UK.

posted by Matthew @ 1/21/2003 12:26:00 PM Comments: 0