Re: Treat This As Priority MOD!!
Originally Posted by
JBR
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Interesting.
As I understand it, the EU rules that no-one can build their own naval assets and, consequently, (quote) we use Swedish steel and buy French missile launchers.
I have a simple question.
What do we build for other EU countries?
(Incidentally, the writer of that article made a mistake. The Harrier isn't exclusively used by the US Air Force; it's used exclusively by the US Marines.)
Of course, I strongly believe that we should immediately put in place what we need to build our own ships (and other defensive systems). We have a long history of shipbuilding and, as I'm sure I have mentioned before, in the 1950s and '60s we were world leaders in aircraft design and production. Rolls Royce still holds that position regarding aero engines.
The answer to your question JBR, is probably,not much?
Mainly due to ,soon after joining the EEC. in order to take advantage
of the bigger market? We then proceeded to destroy 90% of our
manufacturing capabilities when Thatcher decided to deindustrialize
our economy!! Thus making us unable to exploit the opportunities
that membership was supposed to offer?
You are quite right that we were at the fore front of aero-engineering
with probably more independant plane & plane engine manufacturers
than even america has?
I totally agree with Shroppie we should start our ship building again
using our defence requirements to give it a start !!
I only hope we have retained enough skills to do this as we have
been languishing for some time now??
Donkeyman! 🤔🤔🤔