The surging cost of military equipment will make it increasingly difficult for national defence giants like BAE and Rolls-Royce to remain independent.
- Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of York
Plaid Cymru doesn’t have much detail to offer when it comes to defence.
Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood has questioned whether the UK should spent 6% of its budget on defence. Has she got her numbers right?
Saab is a relatively small aerospace company, employing almost 14,000 personnel with sales of £2.25 billion in 2012: it is a David among Goliaths. And yet, as 2013 drew to a close it was announced that…
The controversy over the BAE Systems decision on warship building has been dominated by myth, emotion and pleading. Arguments are raging about English versus Scottish jobs, about shipbuilding as a key…
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