In June it forged a partnership with Singapore Technologies Kinetics to make defense equipment.
Sales of defense equipment and technology to allies, for example, are acknowledged as extraordinarily good policy.
Last year saw a spate of costly scams across sectors ranging from telecommunications license sales to defense equipment purchases.
Joseph LaVorgna, an economist at Deutsche Bank, noted that orders for defense equipment fell to their lowest level in over seven years.
The government has said however that it won't curtail spending on critical defense equipment such as fighter jets following the cut in overall defense spending.
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The country imports about 70% of its defense equipment, such as fighter jets, warships and radars, from countries including the U.S., Russia, Israel and France.
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Other European Union countries with which India is negotiating for a wide range of defense equipment have laws similar to Sweden's, and last year the E.
The country imports about 70% of its defense equipment, such as fighter jets, warships, helicopters, missiles and radars, from countries such as Russia, Israel, the U.S. and France.
He also asked why NATO was expanding to Russia's borders, why the U.S. was putting missile defense equipment in Poland, and the Czech Republic planning to do that.
Waters used strategic military defense equipment as an example.
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The explosion occurred as about 400 U.S. military personnel are moving Patriot missile defense equipment to a Turkish base as part of an effort to defend the country from possible attack from Syria.
The deal's finalization would be key to the efforts by India's air force to upgrade its mainly Soviet-vintage weaponry to partly catch up with China as well as Pakistan which are also upgrading their defense equipment.
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Of the total, spending on defense-equipment purchases was cut to 695.79 billion rupees from the allocation of 795.78 billion rupees.
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France's government is selling part of its stake in defense-equipment maker Safran in order to invest elsewhere to help repair areas of the ailing economy.
November's weakness was driven by a significant drop in demand for commercial aircraft, though weakness in autos, steel and defense communications equipment also played a role.
More ominously, they have the ability to shut down vital parts of the global information grid on which the military now depends to carry out every activity, from intelligence gathering to missile defense to equipment maintenance.
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The NATO members also agreed to devote a fifth of their defense spending to major equipment purchases.
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Since the Soviet empire collapsed, he observed, the world changed far more radically than our own defense doctrines, institutions, equipment and alliances had changed.
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Shrinking defense resources have worn down our equipment and hurt troop morale.
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We took extraordinary efforts to bring equipment from the West Coast using DoD assets, Defense Department assets, to the Northeast so that assets from -- the equipment from power companies on the West Coast could be brought to bear in the effort to restore power in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Orders dropped for metals such as steel and aluminum, metal parts, electrical equipment and appliances, and defense aircraft.
"Because of the potential risk to the general public, this document also addresses biomedical equipment turned in to the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, " Langston said.
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Defense contractors profited handsomely by knowingly selling faulty equipment and weapons that put the lives of U.S. soldiers at risk.
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Army and Marine units are being cycled through the theater at a rate that is tough on the troops, their equipment, their families, the defense budget and, inevitably, on the all-volunteer force.
House resolution 4310, the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, moves communications satellites and equipment off a list of restricted munitions managed by the U.S. Department of State and puts the technology under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Commerce Department.
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He had set up Heli Trading Ltd. to help Israel and the U.S. acquire aerospace and electronic equipment off the government books and collaborate on defense systems.
Toward this end, Bosnia and Croatia should be given access to military equipment currently being denied them and necessary for their defense and the liberation of Serb-occupied territories.
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According to Ashtari's "confession, " published by the news agency Fars, Ashtari was a salesman who obtained high-end but security-compromised electronic equipment from Mossad and sold them to military and defense centers in Iran.
The Defense Department was not importing planes from Brazil, though part of the equipment was to be made there.
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