UK and FRG cooperation (Not the MBT 80, Challenger etc)

[Elan Vital]

On the face of it, it seems like a very similar story to what happened to ASWE in the early 1960s, a very promising national solution was rejected in favour of pursuing an ultimately unsuccessful international collaboration that resulted in a poorer equipment solution for the Armed Forces and weakened UK industry.

What is ASWE?

 

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

What is ASWE?

Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment.

@JFC Fuller is referring to events described in these three posts concerning the development of the Type 988 Broomstick radar.