Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2011
19th February, 2011
British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt has recently said London is to annul more than 50 arms sale licenses for Bahrain and Libya and is considering more such actions for other regimes in the wider region over their crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations.
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Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2008
Despite being the world’s leading arms trader, it is still, seemingly, not enough. What more can we do to help struggling defense contractors?
Jonathan Browning
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) — BAE Systems Plc Chief Executive Officer Mike Turner warned that U.K. lawmakers aren’t giving enough priority to defense, the Financial Times reported, citing an interview with Turner.
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Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008
The conversion of all this high technology and expertise to socially useful civilian purposes provides the basis for some kind of industrial reconstruction.
Controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapults Britain to top of last year’s world arms export league(Guardian)
21st June, 2008
A controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapulted Britain to the top of the world arms export league last year, as UK firms won a record £10bn in orders from overseas, official figures show.
The figure amounts to a third of all worldwide export orders for military equipment, ministers and arms companies reported. An essentially political, government-to-government contract – the sale of 72 Eurofighter/Typhoon aircraft, for £4.4bn, to the Saudis – accounted for Britain’s number one position, the figures make clear.
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