Do we have to provide different money for different armaments or less money for some armaments?
|
|
Another senior officer, Li Yanming, political commissar of the Navy's armaments department, said a "first-class navy should be equipped with first-class armaments", the report added.
|
|
One is mission systems, which includes: avionics, armaments, and fuels.
|
|
Whatever the exact tabulations of armaments, militaries are complex organisms.
|
|
Those armaments include Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Mark 54 torpedoes.
|
|
Its war has been waged through images as well as armaments.
|
|
A munitions worker operating a machine in an armaments factory, circa 1915.
|
|
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, America is pouring money into high-tech armaments.
|
|
Under the Taiwan Relations Act, such armaments must be defensive in nature.
|
|
Does the sale of armaments to a warring nation constitute warring ourselves?
|
|
Armaments, munitions, and fighters were immediately used to prop up the regime.
|
|
Unleashing their armaments on another country would be devastating for regional peace.
|
|
The group has also destroyed armaments kept in 77 FARC storage areas.
|
|
In 2016, the German government exported armaments worth 83.9 million euros to Turkey.
|
|
Filin would accomplish little against sensor- and computer-guided armaments such as these.
|
|
Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, America — all are making fortunes by selling armaments.
|
|
Other soldiers handled armaments made of depleted uranium, a heavy metal with toxic properties.
|
|
A Nimitz-class carrier has armaments and aircraft, nuclear reactors, and other complex systems.
|
|
Chris Christie seemed to rob Mr. Rubio of those armaments and turn them against him.
|
|
They depend on the threats of foreign governments to animate taxpayer funding of their armaments.
|
|
This would force America, they said, to outpace other nations in building up nuclear armaments.
|
|
The Turkish government has massed armaments on the Turkish-Iraqi border to combat "terrorist" activity.
|
|
Tactical weapons are generally designed for the battlefield and are typically not long-range armaments.
|
|
In the biblical account, David shunned the conventional armaments of his time: sword, helmet, armor.
|
|
The CB 90's armaments can include 50 caliber machineguns and GAU-19 mini-guns.
|
|
Eventually, the "New Assyrians" may collapse, overburdened by their own armaments, as did the USSR.
|
|
Michael Vaccaro, the director for international armaments cooperation, will serve as the acting senior adviser.
|
|
"To abandon the vulnerable for armaments would not make America greater but would make her smaller".
|
|
A truck worth of weed could go from fields to lungs without armaments of any sort.
|
|
She could imagine a krane hanging there, armaments glistening in the sun like strange sex organs.
|
|
Building armaments for World War II famously helped bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
|
|
Europe's security was indivisible, she said, adding she wanted to forge ahead together with armaments projects.
|
|
While the hermit state pours resources into its armaments, its citizens' well-being stands in stark contrast.
|
|
They stopped being produced around 1935 because the materials were then used for armaments by Nazi Germany.
|
|
Like all armaments, they can be used in strategic defense or to shoot yourself in the foot.
|
|
The "vision" calls for over half of it to be spent on locally made armaments by 2030.
|
|
" The former NBC Nightly News anchor went on to call the images "beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments.
|
|
The United States Navy values the size (and quality, and armaments) of vessels over their sheer number.
|
|
The bride's father was an engineer for the Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Mich.
|
|
She projects the slides onto rippling curtains, distorting images of powerful men in uniform and intimidating armaments.
|
|
Often the "Day of the Sun" is a key time for Pyongyang to show off its latest armaments.
|
|
But he also acknowledged that imposing economic sanctions on Saudi Arabia would cost America many lucrative armaments sales.
|
|
It's a dreadnought of a World War II-era historical novel, bristling with armaments yet intimate in tone.
|
|
For that reason it has increased its armaments until it has succeeded in changing the conditions of war.
|
|
And during World War 2 most Western governments spent heavily on military and armaments to finance the war.
|
|
"It's no secret: There will be and there must be consolidation in the European armaments industry," Scholz said.
|
|
Whether straightforward spears and daggers or elaborately decorated shields, axes and throwing knives, iron armaments possess physical strength.
|
|
"Damaged and unusable, the armaments were being temporarily stocked at a depot ahead of their destruction," the ministry said.
|
|
What it does have is speed, versatility and armaments that are in many ways superior to the classic Humvee.
|
|
On the atrium wall there is a portrait of Albert Speer, the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production.
|
|
They descend slowly into a dark room full of what looks like fuel tanks and armaments, a dreary space.
|
|
In the in-between years, however, the money allowed patriots like George Washington to buy armaments and other supplies.
|
|
It was the symbolic strength of his movement, not the armaments under Mr. Castro's control, that overwhelmed the government.
|
|
By entering a treaty, or by unilaterally reducing its armaments, a state signals its acceptance of the status quo.
|
|
This military unit could see preparations for attack, ready its armaments, and thwart the invasion before it made any progress.
|
|
Thus, even though these latter are closer to North Korea with their own armaments, it was not really their problem.
|
|
But it actually looks like a war, with military-style armaments, random violence, and significant numbers of people taken prisoner.
|
|
Her spheres seem a bit like machine parts, and maybe also, more ominously, like armaments, pointing to Fort Tilden's military past.
|
|
"In recent years, China has mostly been relying on its own strength to develop new armaments, one after another," it added.
|
|
"China drew a line (in 2012) and started massively ramping up its armaments and maritime saturation of the region," he said.
|
|
But US-Russia relations have deteriorated to the point that each nation is racing to develop and test new nuclear armaments.
|
|
The aircraft had largely been stripped of their armaments so that they could carry even more clusters of small incendiary munitions.
|
|
He had criticized what he saw as the role of the armaments industry in shaping foreign policy and advocated US neutrality.
|
|
According to the Congressional Research Service, the US sold them more than $90 billion in armaments and weapons systems since 2010.
|
|
By bullying officials and bending regulations to their will, they secured contracts in fields as varied as armaments, mining and railways.
|
|
"Only new common armaments' programs will guarantee the survival of our defense industry," said German center-right EU lawmaker Michael Gahler.
|
|
The aircraft carriers will carry F-35 fighter jets, which can hold 15,000 pounds of armaments over a range of 450 miles.
|
|
Washington (CNN)With the end of the U.S. arms embargo, Vietnam will join a long list of international recipients of American armaments.
|
|
"Damaged and unusable, the armaments were being temporarily stocked at a depot ahead of their destruction," the ministry said in a statement.
|
|
Spending more on armaments for most of the allies means more arms purchases from American industry, more revenues and more American jobs.
|
|
I know this because my city has done, in Newark, a raid of gun stashes and gun storages where we find armaments.
|
|
"We focus on realistic feeling armaments for our clients that look cool and don't break the immersion in their product," he said.
|
|
Appointed Germany's armaments minister, Albert Speer used his organizational talents to maintain weapons production, largely through slave labor, and prolong the war.
|
|
The Russian Federation has an economy overdependent on oil and gas; together with armaments, they account for 90 percent of its exports.
|
|
Like oh so many small-town police departments flooded with surplus military armaments, what it has absolutely no use for is a tank.
|
|
GM survived the Great Depression and then transformed itself into a major supplier of armaments — the "arsenal of democracy" — during World War II.
|
|
In recent years, though, countries have stepped up their games hoping to deploy hypersonic armaments rapidly, something Russia has already begun to do.
|
|
Testing with various armaments is expected in the next few years, and the drone will be handed over to Russian troops around 2025.
|
|
Putin said 85033 percent of Russia's nuclear armaments are modernized, and also urged the country not to neglect its non-nuclear military capabilities.
|
|
Not only was her body surrounded by armaments, but on her lap was a chesslike board game known as hnefatafl, or King's Table.
|
|
Though porcupines have quills and some lizards lash their tails when threatened, neither animal has the bony armaments seen millions of years ago.
|
|
The event, which dates back to 20143, is Americana writ large, an autumn duel that celebrates ingenuity, vision, wit, monster armaments and flying foodstuff.
|
|
I had marched a few times in the '70s, in particular in Canada against nuclear armaments at an Air Force base close to me.
|
|
He had not stripped copper from electrical transformers under IS fire to sell so the Kurds could buy armaments, as one Norwegian volunteer did.
|
|
The performance of SRI funds, which often also avoid industries such as armaments and alcohol, is typically benchmarked against indexes that exclude tobacco firms.
|
|
The audio, nearly 32 minutes long, references Turkey's massing of armaments along the Iraq-Turkey border, suggesting that the recording was made very recently.
|
|
"We cannot build up the armaments of Western Europe without stimulating the Russians to increase still further their development of war forces," Taft said.
|
|
Unless you're in the armaments business, discovering that your products are being horrendously misused will trigger a response to try to remove the problem.
|
|
His father is the deputy chief of staff for resource management at the United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Mich.
|
|
The elder Speer was Hitler's chief architect and later his armaments minister, and was convicted of war crimes for his use of slave labor.
|
|
Fahey, now the vice president for combat vehicles and armaments at the consulting group Cypress International, also has a long history within the Pentagon.
|
|
Many celebrants wore crowns - some made of bullets - while church officials dressed in flowing bright pink and white garments to go with their armaments.
|
|
An expert testified at his trial that armaments found at ISIS sites in Iraq and Syria bore similarities to some of Mr. Zahab's designs.
|
|
Daimler produced armaments for the Nazis before and during World War Two, making the issue of possible far right infiltration particularly sensitive for the company.
|
|
Military spending was still well ahead of the United Kingdom ($48 billion), France ($56 billion) or Japan ($46 billion), underscoring its importance to armaments manufacturers.
|
|
"The seabed is full of armaments and lots of unexploded munitions down there from World War Two when it was all dumped there," he explained.
|
|
Characters can swap out standard boxing glove fists for other armaments, including propeller glaives and metal paddles that change the way you throw standard punches.
|
|
The list of areas where the two powers are in increasingly pointed strategic competition now covers trade, overseas investment, advanced technology, naval and military armaments.
|
|
The report released on Monday said the armaments could easily go missing from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, commonly called the ATF.
|
|
His war research work on weather forecasting and armaments was done under the auspices of the Applied Mathematics Panel of the National Defense Research Committee.
|
|
The world's 100 largest armaments firms posted total sales of $26.4 billion in 22016, 24.8 percent higher than in 216.3, the research institute said Monday.
|
|
Analysts speculated that Mr. Kim might choose to send a signal by not putting nuclear-related armaments on display, as he has in past parades.
|
|
There was one for a recent Taraji P. Henson vehicle called "Proud Mary" where she plays some kind of assassin with drawers full of armaments.
|
|
Does that help the United States military that are buying new tanks and buying new aircrafts and other armaments and right down through the economic system?
|
|
They carry a crew of 329, armaments including a variety of missiles, torpedoes and a 5-inch gun and two helicopters armed with missiles and torpedoes.
|
|
North and South Korea line the demilitarized zone, a 9703km-wide buffer on each side of the MDL with razor wire, heavy armaments and tank traps.
|
|
A key issue is whether the United States should provide Ukraine with defensive armaments, such as anti-tank missiles, in addition to non-lethal military equipment.
|
|
To commemorate the birthday of the nation's founder, there was a huge parade of armaments that included what appeared to be several intercontinental ballistic missile canisters.
|
|
"We should, at the very least, NOT reward Saudi Arabia with our sophisticated armaments that they in turn use to bomb civilians," Paul tweeted on Tuesday.
|
|
The Torpedo Factory, built along the river and where armaments were made after World War I, is a city-owned artists' center and popular tourist attraction.
|
|
The carmaker produced armaments for the Nazis before and during World War Two, making the issue of possible far-right infiltration particularly sensitive for the company.
|
|
Trump said if the United States pulled out of the deal, Russia and China would rush in to sell their own armaments, potentially costing domestic jobs.
|
|
Putin noted during his remarks 60 percent of Russia's nuclear armaments are modernized, and also encouraged his nation not to neglect its non-nuclear military capabilities.
|
|
I think this analyst broke the stock himself, but he didn't even dent the company, which has the hottest products in the entire universe of armaments.
|
|
And LeMay had ordered the large bombers to be stripped of almost all of their defensive armaments so they could carry more of the fire bombs.
|
|
It includes photographs of some of the stage jewels and armaments that have survived, images of opera stars in costume, design sketches and other archival references.
|
|
The newly formed Levant Company began an illegal trade shipping old tin and lead, stripped from deconsecrated churches and monasteries, to the Ottomans to reforge as armaments.
|
|
"More than 80 countries supported those terrorists in different ways, some of them directly with money, with logistical support, with armaments, with recruitments," Assad told El Pais.
|
|
Sunken World War II naval vessels might still hold a smattering of "big, bad things," Wright adds, from armaments to biohazards such as vast quantities of oil.
|
|
North Korea's newest armaments by no means obviate America's own immense investments in nuclear weaponry and anti-missile technology, but Pyongyang's programs seem unlikely to be reversed.
|
|
Let us leave it with its hatreds and its armaments, to stew in its own juice, to fight out its own quarrels, and decree its own doom.
|
|
North Korea is threatening South Korea over the latter's purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets, saying it will develop "special armaments" to "destroy" the fighter.
|
|
There is no reason for allies such as India, who pose no threats to the United States, not to become bigger customers for U.S. armaments and technology.
|
|
From concrete barriers to armaments of pepper spray, we saw one of the most prestigious campuses in our country go from an American dream into a nightmare.
|
|
The Pentagon also discounted the Hip's significant cargo capacity, its ability to carry substantial armaments while ferrying troops or cargo, and its use for close air support.
|
|
A short man with a neatly trimmed beard and a bulging midriff, Yianni was, the men had learned, a financier entrusted by the Taliban to buy armaments.
|
|
Each has its own list of dire scenarios against which hypersonic weapons will supposedly protect them and military missions for which they see such armaments as ideal.
|
|
Among them: airplanes, bridges, skyscrapers, smiling children, American armaments, missile launches, postwar devastation, high-speed trains, a basketball player dunking a ball and horses running through water.
|
|
At the Pentagon on Thursday, chief spokeswoman Dana White was asked who would pay for the parade, which would require the shipment of large pieces of armaments.
|
|
It is because neither of us fears aggression on the part of the other that we have entered no race of armaments the one against the other.
|
|
The company's patented "stimulus progression"—playlists calibrated to maintain workers' energy levels and morale through the day—first came into wide commercial use during WWII in armaments factories.
|
|
The counterespionage officials wrote that Iran's illicit activities in Germany are concentrated in the classic sectors for espionage: politics, the economy, science, the military and the armaments industry.
|
|
He simply requested that they start spending more money on their own armies and armaments, which they had agreed to but then repeatedly failed to follow through on.
|
|
Yet while the North Korea threat has the U.S. military on alert, the admiral expressed concern that the stockpiles of armaments are generally lower than it should be.
|
|
The proposed deal includes 10 F/A-18E and eight F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft as well as supporting equipment and armaments for both sets of jets.
|
|
However, if we sell them armaments and then chastise the Saudis for using them, we push them to remain a paper tiger and dependent on U.S. military protection.
|
|
Thitu is close to Subi Reef, one of seven manmade islands in the Spratlys that China is accused of militarising with surface-to-air missiles, among other armaments.
|
|
Just outside Seoul, Trump went with President Moon to greet soldiers at Camp Humphreys and bragged that Korea would be spending "billions of dollars" on American-made armaments.
|
|
We are deluged almost daily with headlines about the horrors the United States threatens to unleash against adversaries in Iran and North Korea if they produce nuclear armaments.
|
|
The incident happened amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, which has been warned by President Trump about missile build-up and development of nuclear armaments.
|
|
Though he may not be interested in an arms race, Putin said that Russia had been developing its nuclear armaments to be able to pierce missile defense systems.
|
|
Ukrainian security forces had been trailing him since December, and allowed him to buy five machine guns, two rocket-propelled grenades and various other armaments in the meantime.
|
|
I believe what created ISIS -- in addition to very clear armaments and financial support that came from certain allies of the United States -- it was the fact of occupation.
|
|
Whether it is an armory full of firearms or a wall covered in blades and staffs, you can probably recall at least one acquaintance that collects or collected armaments.
|
|
ARES' study covers an 18-month period in Libya, and found that although the majority of trades involved handguns and rifles, more advanced armaments are also up for sale.
|
|
"They are beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments making what is for them what is a brief flight over to this airfield," he added against the backdrop of Pentagon footage.
|
|
Military and political competition with Iran, the kingdom's traditional enemy, is escalating, and Saudi Arabia has promised to buy billions of dollars of extra armaments from the United States.
|
|
The relevant regional powers for the Houthis are Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah — influential certainly, but not supplying troops nor holding the purse strings or controlling the tap on armaments.
|
|
Arkadiusz Siwko, head of the state Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, a group of more than 60 armaments enterprises, resigned on Monday, the daily Wyborcza reported, citing a Defence Ministry statement.
|
|
Ms. Grais-Targow said the Russian loan might go back several years, to a time when former President Hugo Chávez, who died of cancer in 2013, bought Russian armaments.
|
|
Finally, the U.S. and allies should provide additional defensive naval armaments to Ukraine, including coastal defense surface-to-ship missiles, patrol boats, radar, and additional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets.
|
|
For decades considered one of the cornerstones of American energy policy and military strategy in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia spends billions of dollars on U.S.-made arms and armaments.
|
|
The violence prompted Duterte to cut short a visit to Moscow, during which one of his top priorities was to acquire Russian-made precision armaments to use against the militants.
|
|
One attack on the tournament has already been thwarted, with a French citizen arrested in the Ukraine after attempting to buy armaments including TNT, machine guns, and rocket-propelled grenades.
|
|
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Defense Ministry plans to spend billions of euros on armaments this year to tackle deficiencies in the armed forces' equipment, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Sunday.
|
|
The US political system is in the hands of the corporate lobbies, including Wall Street, private health care, the military armaments and gun industries, privately owned prisons and Big Oil.
|
|
A turbo-activation tests our nation's ability to quickly deploy both the ships and the manpower needed to transport armaments and supplies at the outset of a massive military movement.
|
|
BERLIN (Reuters) - European weapons makers to consolidate, the German government's armaments director said on Wednesday, and warned that failing to reduce the continent's fragmented defense industry could make Europe obsolete.
|
|
Take "storming the beaches" as a practical example - drone teams deployed in advance of warfighters could provide crucial real time data feeds regarding enemy movements, armaments, air defense and further threats.
|
|
Mr. Macron is pressing for more spending on European defense, especially on French armaments, as a way for Europe to counterbalance a long-term trend of American retreat from multilateral obligations.
|
|
" Assad added in the interview published Saturday, "It's about preventing other countries, especially Turkey, from sending more recruits, more terrorists, more armaments, or any kind of logistical support to those terrorists.
|
|
Sheer necessity forced American business to get more innovative during the Second World War to churn out the armaments that America needed; those lessons were then carried over into peacetime production.
|
|
The in-engine story trailer shows the more practical armaments and reasonable character designs of the earlier games, as well as more mature themes like the erosion of ideals in wartime.
|
|
"Export control has been successful for many other things, like nuclear weapons development and other armaments, but when it comes to technology, it is just a completely different ecosystem," Moriuchi said.
|
|
His teachers kept a sharp eye out for any child biting away parts of a sandwich to create a gun shape or constructing possible armaments out of Tinker Toys or Legos.
|
|
But its armaments are put to shame by those of a rare dinoflagellate called Nematodinium, which has something like a Gatling gun inside it, able to fire 11 or more nematocysts.
|
|
Tuesday&aposs contract by Estonia&aposs state defense investment agency and the pan-European armaments and missile manufacturer also includes training missiles, simulators, testing and maintenance equipment for delivery starting in 2020.
|
|
China's new island armaments "show that Beijing is serious about defense of its artificial islands in case of an armed contingency in the South China Sea," CSIS experts wrote in the report.
|
|
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada plans to clamp down on arms exports to ensure the armaments it sells abroad are not used to commit human rights abuses, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday.
|
|
ROME (Reuters) - Italy will cut 500 million euros ($578.25 million) in armaments spending in its 2019 budget, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said in an interview with online media Tiscali News.
|
|
He said Russia was not seeking a new arms race or to develop new nuclear warheads, but was instead seeking ways to improve its armaments so that they could pierce missile defenses.
|
|
If Canada went for the Typhoon or the Rafale, it would have to decide whether to use U.S. weapons or buy European armaments systems and integrate them with those used by U.S. forces.
|
|
This spend, the paper said, has led to a corresponding Russian military modernization program, aiming to boost the share of advanced armaments in its nuclear triad to at least 90 percent by 2021.
|
|
I've taught college English for almost two years now, and for all the fulminating against the culture of political correctness, I've never seen language scrutinized like the language of armaments and gun control.
|
|
The records show the work of a jihadist hive mind — a system of armaments production that combined research and development, mass production and organized distribution to amplify the militant organization's endurance and power.
|
|
The dog and caravan idiom is a favorite when North Korean propagandists want to dismiss America as an inconsequential mutt yapping at what they call their country's surging march toward mastering nuclear armaments.
|
|
Well, the job isn't done quite yet, as Doom Eternal sees the return of the Doom Marine, legions of demonic forces, and enough armaments to burn the legions of hell to the ground.
|
|
"Since Western sanctions left few options to procure armaments from abroad, North Korea became a crucial source of supplies for Zimbabwe's military, which is among the region's best trained and equipped," Attwell said.
|
|
The EU countries already spend nearly three times as much on armaments ($170 billion excluding Britain) as Russia ($61 billion), but the expenditures are largely uncoordinated with one another, thus diluting potential impact.
|
|
SEOUL, Dec 30 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussed foreign affairs, armaments and the defence industry at a key ruling Workers' Party meeting on Sunday, state media KCNA said on Monday.
|
|
Still, in addition to the books, historic documents and photographs of antique pieces, there are several cupboards filled with armaments and jewelry, and utility boxes stuffed with metal parts, stamps and imitation gems.
|
|
ABC Color first reported the discovery last Friday, saying officials were performing an inspection at the headquarters of the Department of Armaments and Munitions of the National Police when they found the toy rifles.
|
|
Over the weekend, Duterte indicated that one of the top priorities of the trip would be to acquire Russian-made precision armaments, to use against Islamist militants in the Southern Philippines, local media reported.
|
|
American defense companies sold $22019 billion in weapons to foreign nations in fiscal 2018, a 33 percent jump from the year prior, according to the agency in charge of selling armaments to other countries.
|
|
" 1962 "Campaigned ceaselessly, not only against nuclear weapons tests, not only against the spread of these armaments, not only against their very use, but against all warfare as a means of solving international conflicts.
|
|
Yet China was manufacturing steel and iron for its new railways, bridges and urban construction while also ramping up its armaments industry to create a newly-organized modern army under Chiang Kai-shek's command.
|
|
As Shane Greer, co-owner of Campaigns & Elections magazine, detailed in a recent speech to the European Association of Political Consultants, these new armaments, though often developed for wholesome purposes, are scary as hell.
|
|
Robert Neyland, who heads the underwater archaeology branch, said that researchers also hope to determine whether the wreck presents any enduring environmental hazard from leaking fuel or live armaments or other dangers to mariners.
|
|
Taking "go-pills" is a storied tradition for Air Force pilots, who have to stay focused while battling the fatigue of a long flight and maneuvering multibillion dollar aircraft and all their scary armaments.
|
|
The company is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader that provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets.
|
|
German monopolies and cartels in a range of industries—railroads, armaments, chemicals—supported Hitler and the Nazis when they had comparatively few backers, and then cooperated with the Nazi regime, sustaining it during the war.
|
|
I mean after all there&aposs capitalization of weapons, and nuclear armaments, and biological warfare, and internet hacking, and everything you&aposre seeing in the interference of democracies — I think this is a good trend.
|
|
Companies like BAE and Thales of France have also profited handsomely, as European defense companies exported €57 billion worth of armaments to Riyadh between 24 and 220, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
|
|
STOCKHOLM, Jan 235.1 (Reuters) - Newly available data suggests that China is the world's second-biggest arms producer, behind the United States and ahead of Russia, a leading conflict and armaments think-tank said on Monday.
|
|
The Pentagon, which opposed cutting off the aid this summer, told Congress in May that efforts to help reform the country's military and armaments industry, which has historically been notoriously corrupt, have paid major dividends.
|
|
Other measures (too lengthy to cite here) by all U.S. administrations failed to curb the DPRK's single-minded determination to possess nuclear armaments and intercontinental-range missiles capable of striking all of the United States.
|
|
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP, a unit of BAE Systems PLC, has won a $474 million contract to provide system technical support for the U.S. Army, the Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday.
|
|
And it's believed that many of its armaments could be out of date or do not function properly, according to a 2016 five-part analysis on the North Korea threat from the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor.
|
|
From an armaments standpoint, however, North Korea's isolationism has left it behind much of the world technologically, meaning it can't field the quality of weapons that adversaries such as South Korea, the US and Japan employ.
|
|
While the president was talking up armaments and bonuses for teachers who volunteer for weapons training, dispirited educators in West Virginia walked out of their schools, seeking what they say would be simply a living wage.
|
|
It would also give rebels access to armaments stored in the base, which has been used by the Syrian army in the country's five-year conflict as a fortified place from which to shell opposition targets.
|
|
"We will scrap 500 million euros in spending for useless armaments, which are not used to defend the country but are only a way of spending money," Di Maio said, without specifying what would be cut.
|
|
"We've seen cases of redeployment of heavy armaments closer to the contact line ... and multiple rocket launchers, artillery being used," he said, referring to the heavy weaponry that is meant to be removed under the Minsk deal.
|
|
My first and only trip to the spiritual home of West Ham United coincided with the last ever game at the ground, and the place was basically like a warzone where the only armaments available were tinnies.
|
|
President Trump canceled the planned fourth visit, which had been designed to introduce special representative Stephen Biegun, start the process for North Korea to declare its inventory of nuclear armaments, and agree on a timeline for denuclearization.
|
|
Last year, the total stood at an estimated 15,850, with more than 90 percent of them in the hands of the United States and Russia, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks the armaments.
|
|
"Armed drones, armored vehicles and pickup trucks fitted with heavy armaments, machine guns, recoilless rifles, mortar and rocket launchers, have been recently transferred to Libya with the complicity and indeed outright support of foreign governments," Salame said.
|
|
President-elect Donald J. Trump stirred up the debate over nuclear weapons with a late-December Twitter post, but one aspect of that issue is rarely explored: Nuclear armaments have to be safely stored and maintained somewhere.
|
|
Last week, the Saudis received a strong signal of American support when President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and signed a $110 billion weapons deal, including warplanes and armaments that could presumably be deployed in the Yemen conflict.
|
|
Chris Purcell, leader of Patrol Squadron Four and the person in charge of this mission, says that's because windows limit a plane's weight-bearing capabilities and the P-8, unlike the 737, has to carry heavy armaments.
|
|
"If all of these treaties are dismantled, there will be nothing left to limit the expansion of armaments and then the situation will be very dangerous and there will be nothing but an arms race," Putin stated.
|
|
South Korea's acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets, the first of which arrived in March, would force its neighbor to develop and test "special armaments" to destroy the aircraft, the North had warned in mid-July.
|
|
The old weapons, armaments and homage to Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the country's founding fathers, are interesting (there's also an English-language audio tour), but what was really breathtaking were the grounds around the fort and vistas.
|
|
The Philippines is spending 125 billion pesos for the next five years to modernize its armed forces, but putting priority on equipment and armaments for internal security operations to defeat domestic threats as well protect its maritime borders.
|
|
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets will force North Korea to develop and test "special armaments" to destroy the new weapons, North Korea's state media said on Thursday, citing a government researcher.
|
|
There's a lot of really weird psychology and game theory at work when you start talking nuclear deterrence, but one thing that creates huge amounts of angst among people in charge of nuclear armaments is, basically, performance anxiety.
|
|
During the "secession winter" of 1861, he rejected South Carolina's bid for sovereignty, opposed the plan to abandon Charleston harbor and prevented the shipment of armaments manufactured in Pittsburgh to states in the process of leaving the Union.
|
|
Egan's immensely satisfying new novel, the follow-up to "A Visit From the Goon Squad," which won a Pulitzer Prize, is a dreadnought of a World War II-era historical novel, bristling with armaments yet intimate in tone.
|
|
RELATED: Aircraft hangars, radar installed on China's artificial islands Ring of life When an atoll is converted to a military base, it is dredged and the corals are used as a foundation for runways, buildings, armaments, and other installations.
|
|
The nonproliferation community and former Pentagon officials have praised the pact, Pifer noted, adding that it requires both countries to open up their missile sites for inspection, giving the US insight into Moscow's armaments that it wouldn't otherwise have.
|
|
That year the Qatari government purchased 14 Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jets from France with armaments, though Qatar's F1s have largely been superseded in active service by Mirage 2000 jets that fire the newer MICA missiles, the Drive wrote.
|
|
In February, the seven military command regions were streamlined into five (north, south, east, west, central); some agencies governing armaments, logistics, personnel, and politics have been placed directly under the authority of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission.
|
|
Mwatana, which documents violations by all parties in the war, had field researchers photograph bomb fragments at the scene of strikes, then used weapons experts to identify where the weapons came from using serial numbers on the armaments. Rep.
|
|
"Here we see a concentration of Russian armaments on our border, not some regular drills," Volodymyr V. Fesenko, the director of the Penta political studies institute in Kiev, said in a telephone interview, echoing concerns raised by Ukrainian officials.
|
|
Together, advances in armaments and warlike rhetorical blasts have greeted American offers to negotiate, bribe, reward or deter North Korea away from pursuing the ultimate weapon, with which to threaten East Asia, the United States and indeed the world.
|
|
"A Russian military adviser in Syria was helping the Syrian Army learn how to use the new armaments, delivered under existing contracts of military-technical cooperation," the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told the Russian news agency Interfax on Wednesday.
|
|
Russian weapons to fight Philippines militants The violence prompted Duterte to cut short a visit to Moscow, during which one of his top priorities was to acquire Russian-made precision armaments to use against the militants in the Southern Philippines.
|
|
Trump then veered off into a complaint about how neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters noticed a whole ton of armaments at the family home but failed to say anything about it, presumably because they didn't want to look anti-Muslim.
|
|
The proposal reportedly recommends sending antitank missiles and other armaments, which American military and diplomatic officials say would be used for defensive purposes as Kiev fights back against rebels in its eastern region widely believed to be supported by Moscow.
|
|
The indiscriminate way that militaries and combatants are deploying conventional explosive weapons with wide-area impact where civilians live is causing large-scale devastation, both when the armaments are originally deployed and later (often many years later) when they explode.
|
|
According to Oryx Blog, a website that follows closely the armaments used in the Syrian war, the Syrian regime received last year 10 additional Su-22s from its ally Iran, which in turn had seized them from Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.
|
|
Their paper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, looked at 13 populations of cowpea seed beetles from around the world and showed how reproductive-tract-thickness and two other defensive measures varied with the size of the local males' armaments.
|
|
In addition to DHS's livestock research facility, Plum Island is also home to ruins from armaments and fortresses built during World War I and II, pristine beaches, a lighthouse built in 1898, and even packs of gregarious harbor seals in the winter.
|
|
But military commanders and experts say the claim purposely obscures the ability of today's Navy, ignoring the vast gap between what a warship could do a century ago and the frightening array of armaments, aircraft and surveillance equipment carried by modern Navy vessels.
|
|
The trap we have fallen into there will haunt us in every corner of this revolutionary world if we do not properly appraise its lessons" and "rely less on armaments and more on the economic, political and moral sources of our strength.
|
|
Teams like ours from the United Nations Mine Action Service (Unmas) find the needles, but the going is slow: They can never be sure how many still lie there as they assess the risk, probe, and render safe the armaments that they find.
|
|
This plan apparently consists of upping the number of American "advisers" while seducing Sunni countries with ever more advanced armaments -- like Bahrain, now approved to purchase 19 F-16 jet fighters, worth $2.8 billion, with none of the Obama-era human rights conditions attached.
|
|
When all significant factors are taken into account, Pyongyang, likely having no meaningful option to launching at least some massive forms of armed response, would intentionally target certain designated American military forces in the region, and/or high-value South Korean armaments and personnel.
|
|
It is also possible that the Pentagon will allow Kurdish militia fighters to keep at least some of their American-supplied weapons, a United States defense official said, despite assurances to Turkey last year that the armaments would be repossessed when combat operations concluded.
|
|
The US serves as the ultimate security blanket, preventing these countries from having to build up their own armaments and thus risk a replay of World War I. But if American alliance commitments become and remain less credible, it's possible this order could crack up.
|
|
Behind the capacity was an armaments bureaucracy that supervised product development and manufacture, said Damien Spleeters, head of operations in Iraq and Syria for Conflict Armament Research, a private arms-monitoring and investigative firm that has done field work in both countries during the war.
|
|
Although successive governments have argued that, in theory, striking an enemy pre-emptively to thwart an imminent attack would be an act of self-defense, and therefore constitutional, the country has mostly avoided acquiring the kind of armaments it would need to do so.
|
|
"Here's the good news: General Dunford, I think, has a plan that he's working on with the Turkish military that can accomplish these objectives and they are to move the YPG elements away from Turkey," said Graham, adding heavy armaments should be taken from the Kurdish groups.
|
|
"Current sniper systems are equipped with 20-inch barrels, sound suppression systems and full-length stocks that provide accuracy and a stable firing platform required of any precision rifle," said David Parris, a CSASS trainer with US Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's Soldier Weapons Support.
|
|
"Sanders added, "And what happened at that point — having to fight a war on two fronts, in the East and in Europe — the US came together and within three years it had created the type of armaments program that was necessary, in fact, to win the war.
|
|
Finally, as part of a renewed State Department arms control effort, it might be wise to engage America's allies and other major arms producing nations, especially China and Russia, to establish tighter controls on the proliferation of a whole new series of armaments, including autonomous weapons.
|
|
Indeed, the president's unflinching and unrestrained determination to send armaments to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — over the objections of lawmakers, civil society and the public at large — illustrates perfectly that, in the battle for the weapons of war, Congress has stumbled into its Waterloo.
|
|
In March, the Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command sent out a safety-of-use message to all branches of the US military, advising units to perform an updated functions check on all variants of M21s and M24s after a soldier experienced an unexplained, unintended discharge.
|
|
At the start of the exhibition, visitors are presented with a digital recreation of citizens and soldiers in New York using ropes to pull down a statue of King George III, which was then melted down and turned into armaments with which to fight the British.
|
|
That's due to the unique psychological nature of chemical weapons: Because we find them to be much more terrifying than conventional weapons, ISIS using one — even though it failed — is more panic-inducing than even a successful strike using rockets, mortars, grenades or other types of run-of-the-mill armaments.
|
|
"Countries which have the largest nuclear weapons stockpiles have a special and top priority to, at the end of the day, create conditions for the complete abolition of nuclear armaments and ought to keep taking the lead in making large, substantive cuts to nuclear weapons," Hua told a daily briefing.
|
|
An armistice agreement which paused fighting in 1953 never became a formal peace treaty, and small skirmishes have happened since on either side of the heavily fortified DMZ, even as North Korea has built up its nuclear armaments and the US has maintained a heavy military presence in the South.
|
|
What Saudi Arabia and the region does appear to want is someone who can assure the future of this linchpin nation in an ever more volatile region -- and cement relations with the Western power that it most needs in its corner, namely the United States, especially with it vast offering of armaments.
|
|
And though the invasion has been blamed for sparking off the present dangerous escalation of tension in the region, it did not presage a radical shift in a Western policy based on an endless effort to damp down hostilities, to remain allied to Israel and to seek markets for Western products, including armaments.
|
|
So I think it depends on where they go and if they decide that they're going to open up things so that Russia or some other, could be Cuba, probably Russia, would actually have armaments there that would be a threat to our country, yeah we'd have to, not go to war, but use force.
|
|
Such narrow-minded self-regard is also certain to prevent any clear thinking that could lead to a welcome resolution of conflict and tensions or instigate a reimagining among American policymakers of a U.S. role in the Middle East that does not revolve around military engagements and a flooding of the region with lethal armaments.
|
|
Tens of thousands of armaments have been produced, the organization said, with supplies from Turkey, which in the last year has tightened its border security and clamped down on Islamic State smuggling networks in the face of criticism from allies, including the United States, that it was turning a blind eye to the terror group.
|
|
These modern relatives tend to be smaller than Cambrian forebears, and while they still have spines on the sides of their head, they are not nearly so plentiful as the armaments on the head of the delightfully bizarre C. praetermissus—a true chaetognath OG. Get six of our favorite Motherboard stories every day by signing up for our newsletter.
|
|
At the same time, strike aircraft based at the Guam air base, in Japan, and on aircraft carriers in the region could take off, risking the threat of attack from North Korea's ground-to-air defenses as they seek out the country's armaments, some of which are believed to be hidden in well-fortified underground bunkers.
|
|
Air strikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition -- frequently using US armaments recently re-authorized by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- have caused 75% of the civilian casualties in the war, according to estimates by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, including the dozens of children killed in a strike on a school bus last month.
|
|
Contrary to your editorial's view, these accomplishments constitute a strong basis for the United States to entrust the judicious use of needed armaments to the Nigerian armed forces as they work with the armed forces of neighboring countries (Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger) to decisively deal with the threat posed by terrorists to peace and security around Lake Chad and Northeast Nigeria.
|
|
When the company dropped out of the competition for the JEDI cloud computing contract, officials said they "couldn't be assured that it would align with our A.I. principles," a reference to a set of principles issued in June in which the company vowed not to design artificial intelligence products that would be used to harm people, or for surveillance or armaments.
|
|
They appear in chronological order spanning a thousand years, beginning with the sixth-century Gospels of St. Augustine, now in the Parker Library at Corpus, and ending with the National Library of Russia's 15th-century armaments treatise called the Visconti Semideus, and the 16th-century Spinola Hours, housed in the luxury of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
|
|
If Pyongyang is willing to accept the existence of the Republic of Korea, express a desire to reduce tensions and armaments on the peninsula and accept the indefinite duration of the U.S.-ROK military alliance as well as the presence of American forces on the Korean peninsula, U.S. negotiators need not fear such an accord to end formally the Korean War.
|
|
And that does not take into account concerns about other promised American and NATO initiatives to reassure the anxious East, including an American missile shield to be built in Poland, mirroring one already in place in Romania, and the opening of forward supply depots throughout the region where NATO armaments could be stored to make rapid deployment possible in the event of an invasion.
|
|