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Cash paid for missile system spare parts ...
Topic Started: Nov 11 2016, 07:38 PM (80 Views)
johnofgwent
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http://www.milweb.net/webvert/73613

Wanted ... Cash paid for spare parts for rapier missile etc

Also tech manuals ...


Hmmm. Wonder what they'd pay the men who built it in the first place

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Tigger
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I wonder if Mr Hannaway lives near an airport?
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Will all the 'end users' be 'legit' - hmmmmn?
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Nov 12 2016, 07:37 PM
Will all the 'end users' be 'legit' - hmmmmn?
I genuinely do not know what to make of this guy and his business.


I do know that there has been something of a sea change in the way the MOD goes about things. When I worked on the development of the very systems this advert speaks of, the MOD policy was to order up front the systems and at the same time take delivery of, and store, what they viewed as a healthy supply of spare parts sufficient to the projected need for the projected lifetime of the weapon. A policy that often ended up with government warehouses filled to the rafters with knick knacks of use to no-one for a whole raft of reasons...

This policy is no longer followed. These days rhey acquire such stock of parts as they deem necessary for the immediate deployment and a few years of service, after which the will "worry about crossing the bridge of needing more spares when the need arises".

When the need arises, the government approaches the market seeking companies that can supply the parts they need, which has led to a scenario where one particular company, who employ many of the lads who worked with me in the past, nw have people working (at the tax payers expense) designing ways to replace worn out bits with newly designed components as they now have neither a stock of the original parts nor the means to make them from scratch

I recall being amused, some years ago, to have been hired by a supplier of systems to Lloyds of London to upgrade their system to cater for new business dealings. It was only when I got stuck into the actuality that I realised where third parties were sending some of the "now obsolete" kit i had once helped design for our own forces. The fact I was now profiting from extending the capability of insurance syndicates to offer insurance on delivery of such systems into some seriously dodgy parts of the world made me wonder if I were being employed by the Ferengi Grand Nagus ...
Edited by johnofgwent, Nov 13 2016, 08:24 AM.
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