bits44 wrote:I think what everyone is trying to get across is that Airbus is very restricted to certain countries for production of components unless there is no country that has the capability to produce that component, then they can outsource to wherever they can get them made.
Allright I get the point
That's indeed true. It's all very political. Belgium for example has to build a certain percentage of all Airbus planes (AFAIK it's something around 2%).
Then the contracts are devided between the different companies producing parts like Asco Industries, Sabca, Sonaca.
I had a good laugh: this article has several factual blunders (EDS or European Defence Services? never heard of it.) and contains nothing more than ideological nonsens.
Concerning the last paragraph of the article : the A400M is an example of a succesful program: no one European government raised objections.
Why the author calls it now 'doubtful' is a mystery for which he give no one substantial argument.
