Notice how there's very few military aircraft companies in the USA?
That's because the little fish got a visit from Washington saying, "that was your last contract unless you merge."
Northrop tried to resist, for a while anyway.
Regarding foreign companies, the Avro Arrow was cut up after the US offered Canada a northern missile defense network. The Arrow was an early Mach 2 interceptor - think of the foreign sales possibilities.
Notice how there's very few military aircraft companies in the USA?
That's because the little fish got a visit from Washington saying, "that was your last contract unless you merge."
Northrop tried to resist, for a while anyway.
Regarding foreign companies, the Avro Arrow was cut up after the US offered Canada a northern missile defense network. The Arrow was an early Mach 2 interceptor - think of the foreign sales possibilities.
Many of the designers ended up at NASA.