Advanced night-vision equipment and image-intensifier tubes -- the backbone of night-fighting capability.

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That is no less damning a criticism, reflecting the toll on the alliance's fighting capability of inadequate or poorly conceived defence spending by too many of its members (see table).

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RAF's future fighting capability.

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First, European procurement rules don't apply to complex fighting ships, for reasons of strategic defence interests or 'sovereign capability'.

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