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G4S seeks to secure Chinese acquisitions
The Anglo-Danish group – which guards nuclear weapons establishments, manages prisons and clears landmines – plans to spend about £100m a year in developing and developed markets
Northrop agrees TASC sale
The deal for the advisory services division of the US defence contractor is the latest sign of life in leveraged buy-outs by private equity groups
BAE looks to fighter jets for growth
Europe’s biggest defence contractor has invested about £80m in the Samlesbury site in Lancashire, and plans to invest 10 times that amount as it works its way to the full production rate of one F-35 Joint Strike Fighter a day by 2016
Brown considers Chinook fast-track
Gordon Brown is examining plans to fast-track a big order of Chinook transport helicopters for Afghanistan, abandoning the government's longer term procurement...
UK premier eyes Chinook fast-track
Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, is examining plans to fast-track a big order of Chinook transport helicopters for Afghanistan, abandoning the government's longer-term...
South Africa drops Airbus contract
The government says it has no choice but to pull out because of failure to deliver the A400M on time and to budget, dealing yet another blow to the struggling pan-European aircraft programme
Cobham relies on military strength
The defence and aerospace group says sales had grown ‘strongly’ over the first nine months, as revenues from military and government customers help offset declines in its commercial arm
Umeco caution amid aviation turbulence
The aircraft parts supplier and materials group says that its earnings have fallen sharply in the first half of the year as orders from business and regional jet makers dropped off
Aero Inventory ’removes’ top executives
The wholesaler of aircraft parts has ‘removed’ three executives from their jobs after an internal investigation into the incorrect valuation of stock items
China general sees military space race
Air force chief calls military competition in space ‘inevitable’, a departure from Beijing’s past insistence that it is not pursuing space programmes for military purposes
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