That £185m is for one plane. We don't know if it's the figure for development and production of one prototype. It might ignore the development costs and be purely the production cost of that craft. And one UCAV on its own?
The £143m prototype was revealed by defence firm BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire, as part of an informal partnership with the Ministry of Defence and Rolls Royce, QinetiQ and GE Aviation. Edit to add: Granted that the construction cost is non-neglible. If only we lived in a world where everyone could just get along (I'll leave it there rather than get into politics).
Another great example of British Engineering from our defence sector that is worth over £22Billion to the UK economy every year. Might I suggest you leave our marvellous boffins alone to develop these new technologies and instead request some of our foreign aid commitments be redirected to improving our UK flood defences and reducing misery and insurance costs here. Put Britain First.
Has to be good for British engineering. First all British combat aircraft in over 40 years, last was the Harrier I believe.
Anyone got any idea why we need this plane? Is it for our defence? I'd have thought spending such a large amount of cash would be quite unlikely to help our way-of-life here in the UK.
Totally agree, it is ridiculous that we are in effect funding other countries space efforts and grand palaces for their leaders whilst our pensioners shiver and starve, flood defenses are inadequate and we have to put up with pot hole ridden roads!
So, when there are moans about flooding in Hull and calls for more to be spent on anti-flooding measures in Hull you will tell people to stop griping and buy a house elsewhere? No doubt you opposed spending money on tidal barriers?
The billions we give to other countries don't help our way of life in this country. Yet suggest cutting back and spending the money here and you are condemned as a racist, zenophopic nazi by fhe left wing loonies.
people should have house insurance. If floods happen and you're insured - good, if you're not insured? you took a gamble and lost, suck it up princess.
Not that simple, the goverment FORCED insurance companies to cover lots of properties in Hull after the 2007 floods. Insurance companies responded by having £10,000+ excesses and ridiculous excesses. A quick search of HDM articles will show you the problems we've been having. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Floo...-homes-built/story-20057330-detail/story.html
You miss the point - what good is all the insurance cover in the world, if your house is flooded for two months (and continuing)?
Somerset Levels - The clue's in the ****ing name. It's spent significant parts of the last 10000 years underwater. Surely all those farmers are aware of the fact that their land is low-lying. It's like it's come as a big shock to them or something. I mean did they not notice the total lack of hills?
I wonder how many of these folk in the Somerset Levels voted Conservative at the last election, what with the 'bonfire of the quangos' and their decision to reduce funding to the Environment Agency? Maybe instead of asking for handouts from the state they should diversify into fish farming. Bleating scroungers.
I was in Dawlish 30 years ago and remember thinking 'that's a stupid place to build a railway line. You're asking for trouble there'. Now if I could see that then as a young engineering apprentice, I'm amazed it's come as a shock when the inevitable actually happens. It was bleedin' obvious that the whole track would be one day washed into the sea.
Hey, I thought you were some sort of uber-conservative laissez faire advocate... I thought you would have appreciated my hard-nosed fiscal approach.
