| #4 More like this article is stuck on stupid. These guys are going above board on what Doncasters group really does, namely manufacture superalloys and a lot of precision parts on jet turbines (Rolls Royce, GE and Pratt-Whitney), and the major thing they're involved in for the F-35 program is as a subcontractor for the engine parts. They are not involved at the blueprint or systems design level in the F-35. They are involved in the engine parts for the PW engine. If they had said BAE systems were to be acquired on the other hand I'd be getting the heebie jeebies. You really want to know why Dubai wants the Doncasters group? Its because they'll be responsible for major subcontract work on engine parts for the A380 of and the Rolls Royce variants of any 787s and 777s their national airline will fly (of which they have orders for something like 43 A380s alone). THAT is where the money is for them. |