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.....BAe Bombadier (De Haviland)....why not reunite these historical companies....This is not an empty gesture....IMHO the new C class is so good....it will seriously damage Airbus....BAe/Bombadier combination....could also lead to partnering Brazil/China on larger wide body jet airliner civil programes....Reg

.....if the Germans/French want to keep Airbus all for themselves.....why not attack thier under belly....partnering Bombardier.....the A320 is a sitting duck....to the new composit geared fan Bombardier C class 100-150 seat jet airliner......which is a ready made winner.....It would take years for Airbus/Boeing to compete and catch up with this product.....Reg

.....take blueprint from Rolls Royce.....ten year plan and invest.....Bombadier have a superb 100-150 seat composit jet airliner coming to market with geared fan engines.....ideal for the growing profitable low cost carrier market....think Brazil/China/US/India/Europe internal flights.....What Bombadier needs is a partner.....why not BAe buying 50% Bombadier aerospace.....Qatar Airways love this state of the art aircraft.....Airbus and Boeing are offering 20 year old designs A320 and 737.....BAe if it acted fast enough could steal a march on these companies.....The Bombadier aircraft is fully developed....ready for market.....Use this £700m from the Saudis to buy Bombadier....and BAe civil aerospace will have a future for years to come....Reg

......what BAe needs right now....is to refocus on aerospace....build civil aerospace through aquisition.....paying for this through the divesture of Land/Naval....What you will gain are product lines/markets, synergies, efficiencies, maketing channels.....where BAe can exploit its superior military aerospace technologies....and retain its best engineering talent....I dont want this company to down size.....I want it to gain critical mass in aerospace.....through the sale of Land/Naval/Hybrid systems.....and invest the proceeds into civil aerospace.....ie Hawker Beechcraft, Gulfstream, Bombadier, Finmaccania.....The last thing BAe needs right now is to do a share buy back.....Reg

.....are those that concertrate on what their good at.....Rolls Royce (Engines)....JCB (Construction machinery)....Dyson (Vacuum cleaners)....JLR (Luxery cars).....BAe ?....good all rounder maybe....but will always lose out to a focused competitor...Reg

.....are those that invest in their future.....Rolls Royce....JCB....Dyson....JLR....Reg

......sell Naval Systems to Babcock Plc.....try and do an asset swop deal with General Dynamics ie Land Defence for Gulfstream....buy Hawker Beechcraft....then merge these two units.....try and buy 20% of EADs.....if this fails try buying 50% Bombadier Aeropace unit to get back into civil airliners.....and finally do deal with Finmaccania....Reg

........Dasaut have complete ownership of Rafeal product.....BAe have a third share in Typhoon....and sent jv partner the Germans from EADs to negociate....For gods sake the Indians are after a single aerospace partner.....who can speek for the total product.....Plain as the nose on your face....Reg

......Rolls Royce primary competence is in engines/power systems.....they invest heavily in this area.....leveraging their R&D.....over narrow closely related industries.....BAe historical/primary competence is in aerospace....they choose to jv cede control and under invest in this business....sell their civil aerospace operations....and overpay for assets which have little synergy or R&D potential with the aerospace business....Bloody clowns....Reg

.....I agree with all your sentiments....personal greed....no backbone or stategy going forward....company is run by greedy bland accountants....reminds me of that American who ran Cadbury....walked away with £42m severence....He knew what he was doing when he sold the Schweppes drinks side of Cadbury....namely put the whole of Cadbury in play....I digress....If BAe management are stupid enough to try again with EADs....the Germans will play the long game and watch BAe wither on the vine....then pounce....giving UK investors 20% of enlarged group....and no major HQ.....No I believe the best strategy for King is to....divest Land/Naval assets....to buy Hawker Beechcraft.....then buy Gulfstream from General Dynamics maybe using Land Systems as a makeweight....Then explore a tie up with Bombadier and Finmaccania.....Reg

.....this must stop.....Smiths to GE.....GKN Westland to Finmaccania....Flight Simulation, Dowty, Contour to French state run Safran....Lucas to TRW/Goodrich....It all seems to be one way to me....or is it just me?....Reg

.....the problem with BAe....is management have a failed strategy....company would rather pay hansome dividends than do the sensible thing and invest in its future ....BAe has become a conglamorate or a British Leyland.....losing large contracts to more nimble government backed specialists....It might also be pointed out US defence department.....noted BAe US aquisition spree in Land Defence....and chose to place major order with US firm Oskosh....to stifle BAe advances....Oskosh at the time....did not even have the production facility to produce the vehicle.....This says about US precurement....they ultimately look after their own....Same applies to Pratt and Whitney....they got large Gov. grants/defence orders....to compete with Rolls.....UTC have tried to buy Rolls by proxy through Goodrich and IAE....luckily the UK has a golden share.....Reg

.....Britain is still a world leader in Aerospace.....so start investing in it.....before you dont have a business....You only need to look what those idiots at GEC did with Marconi.....Power/Rail sold to Alsthom.....all closed down.....now manufactured in France......Domestic Hotpoint/Creda/Hoover Appliances sold to Merloni Indesit.....all closed down.....now manufactured in Italy.....Telecom Marconi/Plessey sold to Eriksson....now manufactured in Sweden....Sir Arnold Weinstock would turn in his grave.....if the last of his great GEC businesses....BAC....Bristol/Vickers.....BAe Systems was destroyed by poor management.....Good luck to you and all British jobs that sail in her.....Reg

......BAe management track record.....is one of being all things to all men....four distinct underinvested businesses grouped together as one.....ie Aerospace, Naval, Land and cyber.....BAe in effect had to rob Peter to pay Paul....when they made the strategic error of divesting 20% Airbus....selling Regional/business jet business....to build Land Systems....only BAe would place 4 engines on 100 seat 146 regional jet....bonkers.....Still all is not lost here....I would like to see BAe paired back to its core compitency.....namely aerospace....plus cyber....Sell all other businesses....buy back Hawker Beechcraft.....and invest heavily in aerospace once again....Rolls Royce stuck to there knitting and invested heavily in power systems....Look where they are today.....BAe.....Hawker Aerospace Plc should do likewise.....Reg

......Rolls Royce.....Hawker Siddeley....Vickers....GKN.....and JCB....Reg

......Rolls Royce (engines/power systems).....Babcock Vickers (Naval systems).....BAe Hawker Siddeley (Aircraft systems).....JCB (Land systems).....GKN (components).....These companies should be exempt from foriegn takeover....and used as the corner stones to rebuild Britains depleated industrial base....Reg

......Rolls Royce (engines/power systems).....Babcock Vickers (Naval systems).....BAe Hawker Siddeley (Aircraft systems).....JCB (Land systems).....GKN (components).....These companies should be exempt from foriegn takeover....and used as the corner stones to rebuild Britains depleated economic base....Reg

.....BAe Land Systems buy Panther chassis from FAIT Iveco.....hello?.....For god sake....sell this business to someone who can make a decent chassis to fix the armour too.....JCB....Reg

.....Babcock Plc....is another possible buyer of Naval Systems....Reg

.....buy back your corporate jet business....Hawker Beechcraft....if the Chinese have not already done so....Then do deals with Bombadier in regional/corporate airliners.....Sell Land/Naval/Hybrid divisions.....to fund these ventures....Collaborate with Finmaccania.....Reg