Finally, the rising cost of advanced weapons is driving both to seek defence savings.
The more lucrative advanced weapons rely heavily on research and development conducted before 1989.
Israel is concerned that Hezbollah will take advantage of the chaos in Syria to smuggle advanced weapons into Lebanon.
It is rapidly becoming the case with a wide range of advanced weapons and the training that goes with them.
He attached an amendment to a budget bill that would bar the US from transferring the advanced weapons platforms to Egypt.
Furthermore, no country, including the United States, has ever given up territory and needed defensive space just because it had advanced weapons systems or sophisticated early warning technology.
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Even as prospective theater adversaries build up their military capabilities and acquire more advanced weapons and systems, the ability of regional allies to contribute to their own defense and the security of their regions is changing.
Worse, those probes reportedly represent but a small fraction of the more than 1, 000 German businesses suspected of illegally providing Third World countries with advanced weapons and dual-use technologies (namely, those with both civilian and military applications).
These countries are participating in the global proliferation of advanced conventional weapons.
In another potentially destabilizing element, Israel signaled last week that it will keep striking at shipments of advanced Iranian weapons that might be bound for Hezbollah.
However, Israeli officials have said the attacks were meant to prevent advanced Iranian weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, an ally of Syria and foe of Israel.
It also sells the military a host of advanced communications and weapons systems.
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Fifth-generation aircraft are invisible to radar, have advanced flight and weapons control systems and can cruise at supersonic speeds, officials say.
The Bush administration certainly wanted to go to war, and it advanced eradication of weapons of mass destruction as the main reason.
And the list is less daunting than its 300 pages would suggest, consisting mostly of advanced components for weapons and command and control systems.
Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.
And to make the new ships usable, Russia will need to buy or build flotillas of escort vessels, as well as advanced (and expensive) weapons and electronic systems.
Our military needs the best weapons and most advanced technology.
The Air Force Weapons School provides advanced training for a handful of elite officers each year in traditional skills, like teaching aerial combat, reconnaissance and bombing, and also for the growing ranks of drone pilots.
Their weapons are increasingly advanced.
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But the logic in the long run of making such alliances is that Europe's firms will otherwise lose the ability to make some big-ticket weapons, such as advanced fighters, without American help.
Low growth, low inflation, and low policy rates are the weapons of choice in the highly indebted advanced economies.
Already the Russians have been selling weapons on the international market at below construction costs, offering advanced systems for 50 percent or less of the price of comparable Western equipment.
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"Advanced imaging technology enhances security by safely screening passengers for metallic and non-metallic threats including weapons, explosives and other objects concealed under layers of clothing without physical contact, " Soule said.
Its exceptionally long range, large payload and resilience to detection and attack by even advanced air defenses (like those fielded by Iraq) offer policy-makers the means to bring weapons to bear on distant targets with a minimum of delay or risk of loss of American lives.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
The RQ-170 Sentinel is an advanced high-altitude surveillance drone used by both the US Air Force and the CIA. It does not carry weapons.
First, advanced and generally friendly countries -- like Germany, Japan and South Korea -- that refrain from acquiring nuclear weapons in part because they trust the American nuclear umbrella to protect them.
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