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	£103m targeted for aircraft wing R&D

	EADS to complete UK site sale in weeks

	DRS puts Finmeccanica firmly on global radar

	Babcock order book could hit £5bn

	Cobham buys Tyco radio unit

	VT close to £4bn MoD deal

	Fresh delays for A380 deliveries

	China unveils state aircraft maker

	BAE's Turner in talks to become Babcock chairman

	Ministers set to approve aircraft carriers

	Finmeccanica closes in to buy DRS

	MoD contract goes to US group

	BAE needs to deal with past, says chairman

	Broken promises

	Olver hopes findings will usher in revolution

FT.com - Aerospace and defence

05/14/2008 08:27 PM

£103m targeted for aircraft wing R&D

Airbus will lead a three-year programme with the government and regional development agencies aimed at strengthening the UK's commercial aerospace industry

05/14/2008 12:26 AM

EADS to complete UK site sale in weeks

GKN aiming to take 100 per cent control of the Airbus UK wing component and sub-assembly manufacturing site at Filton, near Bristol

05/13/2008 04:38 PM

DRS puts Finmeccanica firmly on global radar

Italy's largest aerospace and defence group hailed its acquisition of a leading US military supplier as a 'strategic' deal that would let it market American products around the world

05/13/2008 11:41 AM

Babcock order book could hit £5bn

Group expects to secure deals to build two aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy and to provide training for combat engineers

05/13/2008 11:13 AM

Cobham buys Tyco radio unit

Purchase of M/A-Com takes group's US acquisition spree to more than $1bn this year

05/13/2008 10:29 AM

VT close to £4bn MoD deal

The contract to build two Royal Navy aircraft carriers will safeguard 10,000 jobs in Britain's maritime industry

05/13/2008 02:03 AM

Fresh delays for A380 deliveries

Airbus has told airlines waiting for first deliveries of the A380 superjumbo that there will be yet more delays, as it faces renewed difficulties in bringing the world's biggest commercial jet into series production

05/11/2008 06:14 PM

China unveils state aircraft maker

China has unveiled a state-owned aircraft manufacturer intended to eventually challenge Boeing and Airbus's control of the global market in large airliners

05/10/2008 05:01 AM

BAE's Turner in talks to become Babcock chairman

Mike Turner, chief executive of BAE Systems, is in talks to become chairman of Babcock International, in what would be his first significant role after retiring from the defence company.

05/09/2008 08:00 PM

Ministers set to approve aircraft carriers

The go-ahead to two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy will end months of speculation that the flagship programme could be delayed for up to two years

05/08/2008 12:43 PM

Finmeccanica closes in to buy DRS

An acquisition of DRS, a US military supplier, could be a springboard for the Italian group into a key defence market

05/08/2008 08:55 AM

MoD contract goes to US group

The UK defence ministry has asked General Dynamics of the US to provide the vehicle design for a new generation of armoured vehicles for the army

05/07/2008 08:00 PM

BAE needs to deal with past, says chairman

Dick Olver confirms he is seeking a review by the new head of the Serious Fraud Office of its abandoned probe into the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia

05/07/2008 12:29 PM

Broken promises

Anything Brown has to say on corporate responsibility and its contribution to development is undermined by his failure to enforce it in Britain's government-industrial nexus

05/06/2008 08:16 PM

Olver hopes findings will usher in revolution

Dick Olver, BAE's chairman, hopes that Lord Woolf's report will silence some of the company's critics, drive a cultural revolution and help it to leave its past behind