>but there is a
>> repsonsibility to maintain our own defence industry as well for export (something that we're still
>> pretty good at by the way)
>>
That's fair enough, PU, but why does the taxpayer have to pay for all the development costs? Because that's in effect what's happening on these overruns the MOD allow... I wonder just how many of these companies would still be in existence if they were made to work to a fixed price contract and forced to deliver at that price like the real world has to...
The Government bodies (not just the MOD) have a truly awful record of price and time over-runs with stuff they buy, its about time it was stopped. If that means we buy stuff developed by others then so be it, we can still insist on construction of the stuff in this country if you want to keep jobs, which is what many countries already do (incl the US with the Harrier!)...
Last edited by: hobby on Sun 30 Jan 11 at 09:45
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