Alistair MacDonald
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97 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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The Americans say an absolute flat-out no, but it's almost irrelevant.
A lot of officials will say the Americans could make life very hard for you using an F-35 because you wouldn't have the software updates, you wouldn't have the spare parts, you wouldn't have the expertise, basically.
So it could be very, very problematic for the Europeans if that was to happen.
Yeah, I think that's correct.
In Farnbury, you saw a number of the sort of the new and very well capitalized defense tech companies.
You saw the likes of Quant Systems from Germany and Cambridge Aerospace from the UK.
And also you saw the presence of Ukraine's new entrants, such as Firepoint.
And Skyfall.
And in fact, indeed, I was talking to the founder of Shield AI, which is a US defense tech company.
And he said that European defense ministries are actually a lot more open to new entrants than the US.
The idea being that the US is sort of standing by its primes.
It's more sort of legacy companies.
It's Lockheeds and Boeing.
It's Lockheeds, RTX, et cetera.
So I think that's right.
I think there is a very fertile ground because there's a lot of cash around for these new defense tech companies and they're everywhere.
Well, that's right.
With drones, it's obviously a lower barrier to entry.
And then you have counter drone measures, which is in itself is a massive, massive industry.
And, you know, I've written before about interesting examples.
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