British Aerospace
1977-99 state-then-private airframe group. Policy or ancestor soil of BAE Systems.
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.
Historical BAe plants, Marconi works, and named UK yards -- past industrial geography.
Not a current classified org chart or a live UK ORBAT.
Systems
Marconi Electronic Systems
The 1999 electronics half from GEC.
Al-Yamamah
UK-Saudi defence relationship whose payments became a public inquiry file. A public signature type or programme -- named, not specified.
Geoffrey de Havilland
An ancestor name English readers already know from the Mosquito and a company that folded into the later grouping.
SFO / Al-Yamamah public years
2006-10: The ethics file in headlines.
Works geography
UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants is the industrial map of BAE Systems (1999 merger (British Aerospace 1977; ancestor yards and works far older)) -- plants and hearings, not a capacity leak.
Meters
Atlas scale (not a war)
36
Peak intensity
22
How long it defined a period
64
Tech or method shift
58
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
48
Film, school, ritual density
32
Hotspots
Ancestor catalogue
To 1977: Many letterheads, one later brand. Named as historical geography of BAE Systems, not as a targeting list.
BAe years
1977-99: State grouping then private company. Named as historical geography of BAE Systems, not as a targeting list.
New prime
1999-2010: Electronics plus airframes; hearings. Named as historical geography of BAE Systems, not as a targeting list.
Ethics and carriers
2006-15: SFO file; yard politics. Named as historical geography of BAE Systems, not as a targeting list.
Partner prime
After 2015: US/AU/Europe as the map. Named as historical geography of BAE Systems, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (1999 merger (British Aerospace 1977; ancestor yards and works far older))
BAE Systems is bounded as 1999 merger (British Aerospace 1977; ancestor yards and works far older). 1910s-40s opens the usual narrative (Ancestor firms); 2020s closes it (European land-systems competition).
Theatre: UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politic.
Place is evidence. UK yards and works; Saudi and US export politics; Australian and other partner plants is where BAE Systems happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars and programmes that bought the products Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
Al-Yamamah
UK-Saudi defence relationship whose payments became a public inquiry file. A material of the BAE Systems vocabulary, dated to 1999 merger (British Aerospace 1977; ancestor yards and works far older).
A yard town's employment is the honest "force" of a firm page.
No build sequence for a submarine or a fighter.