Director/PDMR Shareholding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC
16 April 2008

BAE SYSTEMS plc

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
OR THEIR CONNECTED PERSONS

Notification made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4R(1)(a) of the Disclosure Rules
and Transparency Rules.

The Company was notified on 15 April 2008 by the trustee of the BAE Systems
Share Incentive Plan, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited, that on 14 April
2008 the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMRs')
acquired ordinary shares of 2.5 pence each in BAE Systems plc under the
Partnership Shares element of the BAE Systems Share Incentive Plan at a price of
478.68 pence per share and were also awarded ordinary shares of 2.5p at nil
consideration under the Matching Shares element of the same share plan.  The
transactions took place on the London Stock Exchange.

The number of shares purchased or acquired by PDMRs is as follows:

Name of PDMR          Number of BAE Systems plc      Number of BAE Systems plc
                      Ordinary shares purchased -    Ordinary shares acquired -
                      Partnership Shares             Matching Shares

Philip Bramwell       27                             13
Alan Garwood          26                             13
Alastair Imrie        27                             13
Ian King              26                             13
George Rose           27                             13
Nigel Whitehead       168                            13
Alison Wood           26                             13


16 April 2008


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