That’s shocking to say the least… CEO’s are there to be fired when everything goes wrong. It’s probably only a war of words resulting from the Indian market, but come on, you are building warplanes, expect troubles and punch back.

What I am saying is that the marketing department shld have had alrdy something on hands to fight back.

Are you 3 years old?

People who would buy Eurofighter aren’t going to formulate their opinion based on a few newspaper articles.

BAeS and EF GmbH need to ascertain exactly what has happened, how it can be fixed and at roughly what cost. Then they can respond to it.

Recommending the dismissal of an executive* for a mistake they may have had nothing to do with in an effort to influence perception is the actions of an idiot. Are you an idiot?

*if they are generally incompetent, fire away, if they are actually useful, then hold onto them – good executives are as rare as hen’s teeth.

Sold 50 more CS300 to macquarie.

IMO, the program badly needed more movement on sales given recent setbacks. It should give the Bombardier board a bit more confidence to follow through on their initial investment.

Ugh. The bad news just keeps piling up for Bombardier.

The supposed CSeries entry into service time advantage is eroding by the minute.

Although I suppose there will still be slot advantages given the NEO back orders.

http://breakingdefense.com/2014/09/gao-draft-slams-f-35-on-unaffordable-costs-8-8b-over-legacy-fighters/

No comment on this, read the whole article. There are many large numbers floating around on the sustainment costs of the F-35, GAO has been consistently wrong since the reset, however. The full report will be interesting for sure.

Does this:

The GAO report points out throughout the draft report that CAPE estimates are substantially higher than those of the Joint Program Office, which manages the program, for almost everything to do with sustainment. The official CAPE estimate is $23 billion higher than the JPO’s. But the report says that the CAPE estimate for parts costs would be $120 billion higher than the JPO’s if “they used actual replacement rates being observed at F-35 sites.”

mean that
(1)the JPO is hideously underestimating costs?
(2)CAPE are overestimating the replacement costs but underestimating replacement rates?
(3)something else?

…only about one and a half million people…..compared to how many English who had no say?

That is why it is called “self” determination.

Anyhoo – in general I think its a pity – I now expect the political classes to relax back into their opulent ways and treat the majority of the populace like sh_t. They could have done with the kick up the backside (well, to be honest, they are long past the kick up the backside stage, probably needing a good dig on the jaw at this stage).

China can put a large number of missiles on each Taiwanese military airfield, & each civilian runway long enough to operate CTOL fighters.

Then I guess it would be wise for the Tiawanese (and the USAF/RAF/AdlA/etc/etc) to follow the Swedish doctrine and build jets capable of operation from public highways.

Or you could just go whole hog with hypothetical scenarios and have China nuke Taiwan. :dev2: