ADS fears for future of UK defence industry

Posted on 28 Sep 2011 by The Manufacturer

The voice of the aerospace, defence and security industry, ADS voiced fears that many more thousands of jobs are under threat as the MoD budget shrinks.

Highlighting the fact that the proportion of government money that gets spent on defence is roughly of what it was 20 years ago, ADS claimed that the industry is in danger of being forced to make 20,000 to 30,000 more redundancies. Chairman of ADS Ian Godden drew attention to the fact that all three parties…

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