Britische Rüstungsindustrie

[Rob]

Es sieht momentan ja etwas rosiger aus als der Artikel es unten sagt, Bae kauft Alvis, Bae kauft vielleicht den GKN Teil von Westland und Bae wird seine Schiffwerften nicht verkaufen, damit ist wohl auch eine BaeSystems - US-Firma eher unwahrscheinlich und BaeSystems wird wieder Britischer.
Hier ein paar Fakten:

Second biggest arms exporter
Combined turnover of £17bn a year
Employs 345,000 in the UK
Comprises 3% of UK manufacturing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3741979.stm

Defence and aerospace groups such as BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce are major players in the field, generating billions of pounds in sales and employing hundreds of thousands of staff.
But could much of Britain's defence industrial base be on the verge of falling into foreign hands?
The European Commission is expected to rule on Wednesday on the £309m ($553m) takeover of the UK's only tank builder, Alvis, by US defence firm General Dynamics.
The ruling comes the week after UK engineering group GKN revealed it was in talks to offload its stake in helicopter maker Agusta Westland to its Italian partner Finmeccanica, signalling an end to British ownership in the industry.