BAe what next?11 Oct 2012 13:57
.....The proceeds from the Land/Naval/Hybrid divestures.....say £4-5Billion....could by used to buy Beechcraft Hawker....and invest in Finmaccania...Bombadier....or Rockwell Collins projects....Beechcraft Hawker....make turboprop trainers for US airforce/civilian/business jets...are currently in adminstration....and could be bought cheeply...£750m....allowing BAe to gain civil product and marketing channels at a stroke....ready to do deals with with Canadian Bombadier, Italian Finaccania or Swiss rivals.....BAe core compitences are in combat aircraft, airframe design, avionics, missiles, radar, systems integration, stelth and cyber warfare....therefore if this business wishes to grow from a deminishing defence market....it must find civil applications for its technology....or buy into an existing business with civilian maketing channels for BAe to exploit....Reg