{"id":14649,"date":"2018-02-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:59:08","slug":"combat-air-strategy-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14649","title":{"rendered":"Combat air strategy call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Skills and the capability of the UK to manufacture its own combat aircraft must be at the heart of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s combat air strategy Unite said today (February 21).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the announcement made today by the defence secretary Gavin Williamson, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe combat air strategy must focus not just on world class British design and engineering, but on the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capability to manufacture the next generation of combat aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBy 2020 nearly 25 pence in every pound of spending on defence equipment will go to factories in the United States. The combat air strategy must seek to address this by putting UK jobs, skills and defence manufacturing at its heart as part of a joined up industrial strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWith thousands of highly skilled jobs and the future of production sites making Typhoon and Hawks hanging in the balance, the combat air strategy must move swiftly to secure the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to build combat aircraft and ensure that capability isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t outsourced to foreign powers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA key step would be bringing forward a commitment to replace the Red Arrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ageing fleet of aircraft to secure the future of manufacturing sites that will be involved in the production of the next generation of combat aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn taking the combat aircraft strategy forward the government must engage with Unite and the tens of thousands of workers at the sharp end of some of the most advanced manufacturing in the world.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skills and the capability of the UK to manufacture its own combat aircraft must be at the heart of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s combat air strategy Unite said today (February 21). &nbsp; Reacting to the announcement made today by the defence secretary Gavin Williamson, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe combat air strategy must focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1],"tags":[519,484],"wps_subtitle":"Manufacturing must form heart of gov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t strategy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26384,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions\/26384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}