Pops into my email account because I once looked at funding in the UK and let it go because it appears to involve too much ass-kissing at subsidised buffets.
The report falls at the first hurdle though... because boats don't work in sandboxes.
It is however a phrase we've picked up from the US, and so I'm going to reach out to you, going forward, and run with the bollocks.
We once produced (and by 'we' I mean Glasgow) a third of the world's shipping and the report laments that we may in the UK only achieve a 10% global share of the global market for maritime drones. I mean, what mushrooms are they on? Shift the decimal point a few places to the left and that's about as good as it's likely to get.
In conclusion they point out that there are no places that such drones can be tested and I can attest to that having pissed off the neighbours in my waders.
My own conclusion is that we are the world's principal manufactory of hot air.
(Ed. pls sub 'is that if you can get beyond the Newspeak, this report is a tool every maritime drone builder should learn by rote: six stars on Trustpilot!'
