A successful merger could create a defence company with estimated sales of £800m.

The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market.

Around 40 percent of the total turnover for the core Victorian defence companies in 2005-06 was attributed to international markets.

We see British defence companies – important national strategic assets – being taken over by foreign firms.

The harbour defence companies and ships' crews were ordered out of the air raid shelters.

So are a few departments of the Netherlands Air Force and some private defence companies.

In the early 2000s, I was responsible for a programme to integrate a British defence company with an Italian one.

BAe Sstems is our biggest defence company and so no surprise they sold the government a lot of stuff.

In the late 1960s, the British, German and Italian main defence companies looked at developed a strike aircraft together.

Employing over 260 employees, it is Australia's largest majority owned Defence Company.

However, manufacturing suffered from global disasters disrupting supply chains and defence companies downsizing in the face of public spending cuts.

He is chairman of the defence company Finmeccanica UK.

In 1939, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the National Defence Companies.

The National Defence Companies were mobilised on 25 and 26 August 1939, in the week before war was actually declared.

However those Riga defence companies proved to be very disloyal and mutinous and soon were disbanded.

Over the years BAe and its predecessor companies have had the symbiotic relationship with the government that is peculiar to defence companies.

Given that several military defence companies in the United Kingdom have leading-edge R&D, the threat of this report is a major concern.

Form 680 (known as the 'F680') is used by the government to consider the release of classified information held by defence companies for use in export promotion.

MoD top 100 suppliers: find out which defence companies did best out of the UK taxpayer.

On the other hand, of course, the defence companies are not that interested in the civilian ELROB.

The UK headquarters of multinational defence company Thales Group is located in the town.

Riga defence company.

KG is an injection molding machine manufacturer and defence company based in Munich, Germany.

It was later redesignated as HQ 1st Division Defence Company.

Defence companies are celebrating the signing of a four billion pound contract to supply Tornado jets to Saudi Arabia.