NPR's Melissa Block traveled to Newport to take a look at the business of military production.
Chavez perceives the alliance to be strategic because of the Belarusian over-capacity of military production.
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Currently, the Belarusian economy is characterized by an over-concentration on high-tech military production.
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In such circumstances, it was impossible for a large private-sector defense industry to exist, so most military production between wars was conducted in government shipyards and depots.
He said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.
The new company will focus on piston engine, turboprop and military aircraft production.
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Military-vehicle production and Iveco, its lorry and bus division, could also go on the block.
But cash-strapped airlines are counting on the military to get production rolling.
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Where defense conversion has been undertaken in this country in response to the declining demand for military-related production, it has often not worked out very well.
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Whether production is cut off because of sanctions or because of military action, it would crimp production, Patti said.
Letting individual plants produce consumer items changes nothing if the military simply adds a production line for civilian goods.
So the country's oil managers and their military helpers desperately need to revive production.
Traditional blue-collar labor is often associated with rational control, along with modern high-reliability organizations, such as military, public safety, nuclear energy production, and oil platform operations.
The U.S. has foolishly restricted aid and military equipment to Colombia to use against drug production and smuggling only.
Any sort of war or military skirmish with Iran could affect its oil production, said Adam Patti, chief executive officer with IndexIQ.
Others have changed designs and have pioneered new markets as the production of special clothing and badges for the military.
Under the benefaction of former military President Ibrahim Babangida, he was awarded an oil production license and went on to become the first Nigerian to strike oil in commercial quantities.
Military public-service announcements are legendary for hit-or-miss production values and scripts that often seem lifted from classroom scare films.
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What this shows is that structural features of the military marketplace reduce the value of competition as technology programs progress from development to production to fielding.
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In this connection, programs like the V-22, which hold enormous promise not only for the military technology base but also for the civilian sector, should be fully realized by production and introduction into the active inventory.
Today, production lines that can build such trucks are one by one going cold as military spending dries up.
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The military has taken over what used to be large-scale commercial farms to try to boost food production.
The military relationship between the two countries has gradually evolved to include economic issues, namely, energy exploration and production.
There are reports that military factories have been ordered to produce civilian goods -- but only in addition to meeting their planned production for the armed forces.
Kagwanja says the military doesn't have the funding to revive the farms, and is taking a ruthless approach to increasing production of Zimbabwe's staple food, maize.
Instead of the F-22 the military will now have to make do with the F-35, a jet that has yet to go into production.
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