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BAE Systems

October 2017

  • A member of staff works in the cockpit

    BAE Systems to cut nearly 2,000 UK jobs

  • The Eurofighter Typhoon production line at BAE's Warton plant

    BAE Systems 'planning 1,000 job cuts'

  • Typhoon fighter

    UK trade department draws half its secondees from arms industry

  • A mothballed Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft at the BAE factory at Woodford in Cheshire

    Boeing fiasco and UK’s post-Brexit future

September 2017

  • A man covers his hands in crude oil during a protest against Shell after a oil spill from a Shell oil field in Bonga, Nigeria.

    Political science
    At New Scientist Live, arms and oil companies are buying credibility from science

    Chris Garrard
    The sponsorship by Shell and BAE Systems of this weekend’s New Scientist Live festival crosses an ethical red line, writes Chris Garrard, a campaigner and member of the Art Not Oil coalition

August 2017

  • two super Hornet jet fighters

    Arms manufacturers allowed to bypass discrimination laws in NSW

    State government urged to act over exemptions letting companies sack or transfer workers simply because they are foreigners

June 2017

  • HMS Queen Elizabeth heads out to sea

    HMS Queen Elizabeth could be vulnerable to cyber-attack

  • Man's hands at a laptop

    BAE 'secretly sold mass surveillance technology to repressive regimes'

May 2017

  • BAE chairman Roger Carr says all war is ‘terrible’, and claims staff are in Saudi Arabia to ensure its jets ‘perform to the specification’.

    BAE chair fails to confirm whether staff are loading bombs on to Saudi jets

    Sir Roger Carr claims BAE is ‘not involved in any military action’, despite the company’s job ad for a weapons loading technician in Saudi Arabia

January 2017

  • A Eurofighter Typhoon at BAE Systems’ site at Warton, Lancashire.

    Activists try to stop warplanes leaving UK bound for Saudi Arabia

    Methodist minister arrested at BAE Systems’ Warton Aerodrome says he was trying to prevent war crimes in Yemen

December 2016

  • Prince Harry at Icap’s recent Charity Day in London

    Market Forces blog
    FTSE slips from record close, while Icap and Tullett complete deal

  • Typhoon fighter aircraft

    British arms companies buck global trend with increase in sales

November 2016

  • Participants in the Cyber Security Challenge

    New generation of ethical hackers aims to impress recruiters

    As the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre starts work, recruiters are busy identifying raw talent to counter future hazards

October 2016

  • Shares in British Airways owner take off

    Market Forces blog
    FTSE slips back but IAG and easyJet climb after Lufthansa update

    Airlines boosted by positive news on September bookings from German group

August 2016

  • Margaret Thatcher in an unfinished Harrier at British Aerospace in 1982.

    Declassified papers reveal real reason for Thatcher's dash to Riyadh

    Secret memos show Downing Street’s plotting to ensure Saudis chose British Hawks and Tornados over French jets

July 2016

  • Rolls-Royce workers

    Rolls-Royce to cut 400 senior management jobs

    Engineering group doubles planned job cuts for 2016 and forecasts profits recovery in second half

June 2016

  • The crew of the Type 45 Destroyer HMS Dragon, march aboard as she is handed over to the Royal Navy. HMS Dragon, is at risk of breakdown in water ‘warmer than in Portsmouth harbour’.

    Destroyers will break down if sent to Middle East, admits Royal Navy

    Defence chiefs tell Commons committee the £1bn ships are likely to suffer engine failure in warm waters

May 2016

  • Protesters at the annual shareholder meeting of BAE Systems

    BAE chairman to peace activists: 'weapons sales encourage peace'

  • A Typhoon fighter aircraft.

    Market Forces blog
    FTSE slips back on miners and Sainsbury, but Next and BAE buck trend

April 2016

  • The BAE systems shipyard at Govan

    Plan to build frigates on the Clyde will go ahead, says ​defence minister

    Philip Dunne says government committed to type-26 programme after accusations of betrayal over shipbuilding pledge
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