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Aerospace group chief executive urges UK and Europe to pool efforts and merge fighter jet programmes

Archived version: https://archive.ph/iEbjj

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[–] Sheldybear 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Weapons manufacturer suggests Europe buy a whole lot more weapons"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, Airbus civilian division is more profitable than the military one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Always. Their military wing was always less profitable than civilian one. I don't know the latest numbers, but military side usually makes only up to 15% of total sales.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

To translate this from Airbus marketing to English: "Hey, Dassault. We are still pondering options to scrap FCAS and look for other partners, so you better give us some more shares of our common development and production."

And I say this as a German usually criticising the exact same bullshit tactics from Dassault...