BAE Systems Air Systems is a business unit of BAE Systems responsible for the design, development and production of BAE's major military aircraft programmes. In 2004 Janes Defence Weekly described BAE Systems Air Systems as the last such company in the UK. BAE Systems Air Systems forms the bulk of the former BAE Systems Military Aircraft and Aerostructures.^[1] BAE Systems plc is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor[2] and a commercial aerospace manufacturer. ... Military aircraft are airplanes used in warfare. ... Categories: Magazines stubs | Military magazines ...

The company is has four main UK sites, Warton and Samlesbury, Lancashire; Brough, Yorkshire; and Woodford, Cheshire. Warton Aerodrome (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGNO) is located near to Warton village on the Fylde peninsula in Lancashire, England. ... Samlesbury is a small village in the South Ribble area of Lancashire. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Brough is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, located on the Northern bank of the River Humber, approximatetly 10 miles West from Hull city centre. ... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Woodford Aerodrome (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGCD) is located at Woodford in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a...

BAE Systems Air Systems has five major programmes; Typhoon (as part of the Eurofighter consortium), Nimrod, F-35 Lightning II, Hawk and Autonomous Systems and Future Capability (Air). The latter is a division responsible for design and development of UAVs such as the Taranis. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers through Eurofighter GmbH which was formed in 1986. ... Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH is a multinational company that co-ordinates the design, production and upgrade of the Eurofighter Typhoon. ... The BAE Systems (formerly Hawker-Siddeley) Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft is derived from the De Havilland Comet, the worlds first jet airliner. ... The F-35 Lightning II—descended from the X-35 of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program—is a single-seat, single-engined military strike fighter, a multi-role aircraft that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and air-to-air combat. ... The BAE Hawk is an advanced jet trainer which first flew in 1974 as the Hawker-Siddeley Hawk. ... UAVs in a hangar An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a pilotless aircraft, controlled either remotely or flown autonomously, used for a number of missions, including reconnaissance and attack roles. ...

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