BAE Systems (1977): British Aerospace formed
[38] [bae-systems-1-38] BAE Systems is the record of 1977 under “British Aerospace formed.” The figure to read with it is 30. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. A nationalised industry that learned to lobby
BAE Systems is a 30 November 1999 letterhead: British Aerospace (itself a 1977 nationalisation-era merger of Hawker Siddeley, BAC, and Scottish Aviation) plus Marconi Electronic Systems, the defence electronics cut from GEC. Behind those names sit Vickers, de Havilland, Avro, and yard towns that built the Royal Navy's industrial memory. This page is that firm history -- not a product guide and not a how-to for any ship, jet, or munition.
The English public file is split: Typhoon as a European industrial politics, the Queen Elizabeth-class carrier as a yard-and-alliance story, and the Al-Yamamah / Serious Fraud Office years as the export-ethics hearing. Richard Evans, John Weston, Mike Turner, Ian King, and Charles Woodburn are the successive public chiefs. Margaret Thatcher's privatisation of British Aerospace (1981-85) is the political preface.
Korean contact is thinner than Lockheed's: Hawk trainers and later teaming stories, not a whole ROK fighter generation. Compare Rheinmetall and Hanwha for the land-systems export boom that BAE watched from a different specialism. Intensity is low; duration is long because the ancestor works are Victorian-to-present.
Say BAE Systems with 1977, “British Aerospace formed,” and 30. The figure is not a national score.1977
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1977
- Figure in the record
- 30
- Action
- BAE Systems
- Line of the front
- British Aerospace formed
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