Ancestor catalogue
To 1977 in UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants: Many letterheads, one later brand. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale36
Intensity22
Duration64
Tech shift58
Political impact48
Cultural memory32
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
What was British Aerospace?
A 1977 grouping of UK airframe companies, later privatised in the 1980s, that became half of BAE.
Why do hearings appear on a firm page?
Because Al-Yamamah and the SFO file are the thickest public political record of the company's export life. They are civic history.
How does the Royal Navy relate?
Yards and combat-system work for UK fleets are a continuous industrial story. See the RN page for force structure; this page for the contractor.
Is Typhoon a BAE aircraft?
BAE is a major partner in a European programme. Workshare is the honest word -- not sole inventor.
How does Korea fit?
Hawk trainers and later partnership notes -- thinner than Lockheed or Hanwha in ROK memory.
Farnborough, Barrow, Warton, Govan, Washington offices as a transatlantic map point.
Riyadh as a hearing geography, not a targeting geography.
Maps
BAe years
1977-99 in UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants: State grouping then private company. A memory map, not a present overlay.
New prime
1999-2010 in UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants: Electronics plus airframes; hearings. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Ethics and carriers
2006-15 in UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants: SFO file; yard politics. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Partner prime
After 2015 in UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants: US/AU/Europe as the map. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Portrayals
Geoffrey de Havilland biographies
The usual English doorway into BAE Systems: An ancestor name English readers already know from the Mosquito and a company that folded into the later grouping.
Barnes Wallis biographies
The paired doorway: Vickers memory -- bouncing-bomb fame that this page will not turn into a design lesson. A cultural ancestor, not a 1999 employee.
School survey chapters
Where BAE Systems (1999 merger (British Aerospace 1977; ancestor yards and works far older)) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants local hours.
Local museums / sites in UK yards and works
Thicker than the English paragraph. Partner prime is the usual late pilgrimage caption.
Feature film / television
If BAE Systems has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.
Korean comparative essays
A Korean reader may pair BAE Systems with 1950-53, Inchon, Tsushima, or the ROK force-structure story even when the campaign was elsewhere.
Rituals
1910s-40s / 2020s dates
The usual ritual poles of BAE Systems: Ancestor firms and European land-systems competition.
Museum and cemetery wreaths
Official and family rites at sites in UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants. Ian King (BAE) is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.
Classroom minutes
Where BAE Systems is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants's own calendar.
Sayings
IWM ancestor types are the English civic site.
No live line-rate.