Airbus name or not - BAE ready to quit deal if US ties at risk

BAE Systems has warned it will walk away from its proposed 35bn tie-up with EADS if the deal waters down its special relationship with the Pentagon.

BAE will not do this deal if its Special Security Arrangement has to change to look more like that of EADS, said one person close to BAE, in a sign of the complexities surrounding one of Europe's largest and most sensitive industrial mergers in years ... READ MORE

Released by the Financial Times - 23 September 2012