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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
We should have bought AWACS when we had the chance, instead the morons at the MOD trusted Marconi (GEC) to do a new radar which they made such a bog of that the whole thing ended up as a fiasco costing £billions.
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I remember the uproar when Marconi went bust (mainly due to BT not using them for the 21cn IIRC). What nobody mentioned was that Marconi had been treating BT like a money tree for years until they'd finally had enough.