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People and debates around BAE Systems.

Educational history. Casualty figures are documented ranges. This is not operational advice, a ranking of nations, or a how-to for weapons or coups.

Typhoon at Farnborough, a Barrow gate, a newspaper front page from the SFO years.

Wallis as the inherited British engineer-saint -- handle as memory.

People

Geoffrey de Havilland

Geoffrey de Havilland

An ancestor name English readers already know from the Mosquito and a company that folded into the later grouping.

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Barnes Wallis

Barnes Wallis

Vickers memory -- bouncing-bomb fame that this page will not turn into a design lesson. A cultural ancestor, not a 1999 employee.

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Margaret Thatcher

Privatisation of British Aerospace is the political preface to the later prime.

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Richard Evans (BAE)

A public chief of the BAe-to-BAE years -- export politics included.

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John Weston (BAE)

A 1999-era chief name on the new letterhead.

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Mike Turner (BAE)

A 2000s chief in the hearing decade.

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Ian King (BAE)

The 2008-17 public chief -- Typhoon and yard years.

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Charles Woodburn

A later public name -- caption, not a market note.

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Debate

Did privatisation make a stronger prime or only a louder lobby?

The hearing file and the yard-town file disagree. Hold both.

National champion vs export dependence

BAE's politics are that tension in public, dated form.

A Bond-film gadget is not a primary source.

The brand film drops the hearing. This page will not.

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