Drone maker who received support from the UK government and the MOD who wants to stay in the UK is threatening to leave the UK unless the UK places order is wild, after securing a 20 million contract with Trumpistan.
The UK wants a larger piece of the war economy pie yet we are immediately seeing the stranglehold this industry will have on us.
Interesting-Voice328 on
Leave then, preferably go somewhere they will be at risk of being bombed , live by the sword die by the sword
theartofnocode on
This is complete nonsense. These companies exist due to taxpayer funded contracts. Every country will insist that their drones are made in their country. They already let this slip by admitting they have operations into be US.
Yea it would be nice if the value adds jobs were done in the UK due we shouldn’t be blackmailed by these companies.
MadeOfEurope on
Gets a £15m contract and starts strutting around like they’re BAe Systems?
hoopjoness on
“whether or not it makes financial sense to stay in the UK or if we move the entire operation to the US where there is that significant traction.”
So rather than use the tech to defend your country you’d rather shift it to another country for money basically. Plus I bet the US are wooing them bc they would hate other countries to have more dominant tech than them. Unreal.
Dr3adnorth on
There’s a middle ground to be had here. We need to support domestic production of military assets, if you don’t think we need to then you don’t understand the concept of a standing military. The US is an example of a military industrial complex that has gone too far.
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Drone maker who received support from the UK government and the MOD who wants to stay in the UK is threatening to leave the UK unless the UK places order is wild, after securing a 20 million contract with Trumpistan.
The UK wants a larger piece of the war economy pie yet we are immediately seeing the stranglehold this industry will have on us.
Leave then, preferably go somewhere they will be at risk of being bombed , live by the sword die by the sword
This is complete nonsense. These companies exist due to taxpayer funded contracts. Every country will insist that their drones are made in their country. They already let this slip by admitting they have operations into be US.
Yea it would be nice if the value adds jobs were done in the UK due we shouldn’t be blackmailed by these companies.
Gets a £15m contract and starts strutting around like they’re BAe Systems?
“whether or not it makes financial sense to stay in the UK or if we move the entire operation to the US where there is that significant traction.”
So rather than use the tech to defend your country you’d rather shift it to another country for money basically. Plus I bet the US are wooing them bc they would hate other countries to have more dominant tech than them. Unreal.
There’s a middle ground to be had here. We need to support domestic production of military assets, if you don’t think we need to then you don’t understand the concept of a standing military. The US is an example of a military industrial complex that has gone too far.