The MoD has just published its long awaited replacement for the defence industrial strategy (click the image to download), the snappily titled National Security Through Technology: Technology, Equipment and Support for the UK Defence and Security. Every government has one and although the last one was a reasonable attempt and meeting the conflicting needs of UK Defence and UK Plc [...]
An interesting article was published recently in the Indian Edition of Business Standard that describes how the UK was seeking partnership with India for the design and build of the Type 26 Global Combat Ship To quote some of the more interesting sections of the article; Business Standard has learnt that a cash-strapped UK government has approached New Delhi to [...]
Guest post from Chris.B Recently there’s been a number of articles written and comments made about the idea of reviving various aircraft as “low cost” solutions for service in the UK armed forces. In addition, the subject of cost has come up numerous times. Why does one aircraft cost so much more than another? Why is that one nation can [...]
With all the discussion recently about cuts and rising costs, gap filling and cheap solutions what are the most appropriate design drivers for new equipment? It’s a problem that seems to afflict all nations with a defence industry, performance is always involved in a race; higher, faster, further and more destructive but given the huge disparity in equipment quality between [...]
Coming off the back of the Dispatches programme which took the position that the Defence Industry was a ‘protectionist racket’ it is worth challenging that statement and beyond that, asking if is it a special case, worthy of state protection. History tells us quite clearly that government subsidy tends to create inefficient organisations that fail to innovate or drive down costs [...]
On the MoD’s web site its opening line on the page that details the Defence Industrial Strategy 2.0 is; The DIS was widely regarded as a success mmm, perhaps by the people that wrote it, perhaps by BAe but not by the taxpayer and certainly not by anyone feeling the harsh wind of budgetary restraint in the armed forces, which would [...]
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