B S D Chapman mail-at-benchapman-dot-co-dot-uk wrote in message ...

Don't think that we'll give up Nimrod and wait for America to build
something: They're waiting for us to finish Nimrod so that Boeing can
nick the code (paid for by the MoD and BAe) and use it for themselves.

I am not sure what you mean by the word 'nick'. It is not a foregone
conclusion that Boeing will win the MMA contest. Even if they do, the
facts that the avionics and sensor fit will be incompatible and that
BAe will give their intellectal property to Boeing for nothing makes
the chances of this happening remote.

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Vsadnik