"It is unlikely we would be in the aerospace export business if it wasn't for the JSF."
F-35 industry status in Australia is in good heath or under denial, depending on your point of view.
If your are Production Parts--a company that went under--your opinion is probably firm by now.
The quote above though is crucial. It was from a company that thinks things with the F-35 industry are manageable. Or so they say in public.
Those saying that the problem is only orders "deferred" are whistling past the graveyard.
There will not be thousands of F-35s made. This is the quantity needed to make the business plan work.
How many F-35s are missing? More than a few.
"Total orders, taking into account sales to international partners and foreign military sales, were down from 1535 (2007 prediction) to 622."
I don't know how a business owner that is depending on the F-35 could be anything other than seriously concerned.
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Surely the ever reducing orders are a cancer to the businesses that depend on the JSF. The only result can be more closures, which will further compromise the production chain as who will be willing to invest new money to step into the breach and replace those companies that drop out/cease to exist?
Why are business' depending on a single project/order. Doesn't sound like good business practice to me.
"The business model from inception has been flawed"
- geogen :D
God speed RAAF
Ano, it is obvious you have not been in business. We all strive to spread our business, however especially in some fields it is difficult. No doubt they would have been induced to purchase machinery and make other investments, which probably in Aerospace has little other use in Australia.
No doubt LM and DMO would ahave made certain inducements, and anyway doesn't LM have a name in the business?
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