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

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

    • BrikoXOPM
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      3 months ago

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

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          3 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.

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    3 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…