Sorry to intrude on such a very national subject but…
I would like to remind Arrows of a missing option in his proposal,
namely cooperation/joint venture!
Bad examples of such collaborative efforts abound, agreed but…
one of your examples of success is Franco-British, the Lynx, that is!
Let’s picture a proper associative process to be built on the basis of
present furthering of entente so often brought forth by the papers.
A- What either can or want to build alone should be excluded from
even basic consideration. [ Thinktanks can muse and wishwash all
they want but real planning shouldn’t. ]
B- No overseers playing amateur cooks during cooking. [ No f.ck.ng
Nahema/Occar or such mumbo jumbo; award contracts to main and
secondary firms of repute and let them do their darn jobs, for Pete’s
sake. ]
C- There are at the very least three possible ways of efficiently main-
taining cooperation and they should be used in conjunction for best
results.
1- Creative endeavours where top companies go for broke
trying to create the best possible, sharing knowledge along the way,
Concorde comes to mind!
2- Main to second expertise downfall [ generally to produce a
“classic” weapon at lower cost ].
3- Trading programs for lower costs throughout the service life
of the equipment where you buy my big machine gun and I procure your
snappy night goggles to my troops.
Now, I know and understand that some of you mates believe that you already have such a great framework established with a former colony
of yours so I will point out in closing that the respective size of nations entering such a deal is almost as important as their intents lest over time,
the gains become somewhat lopsided, which, I guess, the rest of you mates are beginning to suspect.
Good day all, Tay.:)
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