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"defence" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] the act of protecting somebody/something from attack, criticism, etc.
  2. [countable, uncountable] something that provides protection against attack from enemies, the weather, illness, etc.
  3. [uncountable] the organization of the people and systems that are used by a government to protect a country from attack
  4. [countable] something that is said or written in order to support something
  5. [countable, usually singular] what is said in court to prove that a person did not commit a crime; the act of presenting this argument in court
  6. the defence [singular + singular or plural verb] the lawyer or lawyers whose job is to prove in court that a person did not commit a crime
  7.  /dɪˈfens/  /ˈdiːfens/ [singular, uncountable] the players who must prevent the other team from scoring; the position of these players on the sports field
  8. [countable] a contest, game, etc. in which the previous winner or winners compete in order to try to win again

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"defence" Synonyms
armour(UK) armor(US) defence(UK) ammunition cover guard protection resistance safeguard fortification immunity safeguarding security shield stronghold weapon aegis buckler deterrence deterrent barricade buttress bastion bulwark fastness fort fortress garrison rampart wall bastille keep outpost stockade palisade parapet army military armaments arms weapons navy air force military resources military measures armed forces forces armed services security forces services militia infantry troops soldiery cavalry excuse justification extenuation rationalisation(UK) rationalization(US) reason vindication advocacy apology argument endorsement explication support whitewash alibi copout exculpation exoneration explanation backing advancement promotion encouragement championship assistance championing sponsorship espousal boosterism aid favoring(US) favouring(UK) recommendation sanctioning supporting urging anchor mainstay pillar cornerstone backbone prop foundation reliance dependance dependence linchpin backer hook mooring patronage shelter auspices care charge guardianship guidance keeping umbrella agency auspice favor(US) favour(UK) escort custodian guardian defender warden protector minder chaperone attendant bodyguard chaperon duenna overseer convoy guide supervisor cortege babysitter defense mechanism conversion defense reaction repression sublimation suppression symbolization counterattack counteroffensive counterstrike counterassault counteraction counterblow countermove reciprocation reprisal retribution counterpunch retaliation revenge vengeance reaction response attack neutralisation(UK) neutralization(US) barrage dam embankment barrier dyke obstruction weir dike gate sluice bank levee head sea wall hindrance blockage behalf advantage benefit profit welfare help service good side account cause concern countenance furtherance moat canal channel ditch earthwork fosse gully trench drain trough conduit furrow gutter cut watercourse sheugh foss impediment obstacle discouragement check curb disincentive restraint block inhibition baulk(UK) balk(US) bar brake chain clog cramp crimp shell covering case casing husk sheath hull pod jacket capsule housing encasement cocoon integument shuck crust pericarp plastron opposition disapproval objection demurral criticism disagreement contrariety dislike negativism strengthening reinforcement bolstering buttressing firming solidification underpinning shoring up firming up building up beefing up bracing stiffening augmenting supplementing protecting securing martial armed soldierly fighting warlike soldierlike soldier-like warrior aggressive combatant combative militant militaristic noncivil warmongering brave More
"defence" Antonyms
assault offense(US) attack offence(UK) strike blitz offensive onslaught raid incursion assailing barrage push assailment descent crusade rush blitzkrieg storming advance consequence result repercussion corollary ramification aftereffect fallout outcome product by-product effect fate fruit upshot sequel resultant development issue aftermath sequence endangerment harm hurt injury release ignorance negligence thoughtlessness disregard hindsight carelessness neglect depression ditch erosion opening discouragement opposition protest stop stoppage rejection betrayal capitulation desertion flight surrender yielding charge condemnation conviction indictment question request sentence guilt blame disproval denial admission concession confession confirmation acknowledgement(UK) acknowledgment(US) avowal acceptance affirmation disclosure claim divulgence affidavit unbosoming concurrence divulgation assent testimony asseveration attestation destruction individual whole vulnerability susceptibility exposure imperilment susceptivity vulnerableness susceptibleness defenselessness susceptiveness helplessness openness weakness liability lack of protection danger accusation censure complaint criticism defiance refusal repudiation imputation permanent opponent bashing beating abuse assaulting battering battery striking bludgeoning clobbering drubbing hammering impugnment lambasting pummeled(US) pummelling(UK) walloping kicking enemy foe substantiation proof evidence corroboration validation verification authentication vindication support approval documentation testament testimonial endorsement answer decision reply truth risk threat peril jeopardy distress insecurity precariousness hazard trouble forgiveness pardon sympathy civilian nonmilitary unsoldierly peaceful peaceloving

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Defence contractors have benefited as nations pump more money into defence.
Shuri-te is not self-defence; it is defence of someone else.
"Defence does not provide or support the use of unauthorised software, including the WeChat social media application, on Defence mobile devices," a Defence spokesperson told the newspaper.
Rome, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta speaks before Chamber of Deputies Defence Committee (20.454 GMT).
The Indian companies likely to participate in the bidding are Tata Advanced Systems, Mahindra Defence, Adani Defence, L&T, Bharat Forge and Reliance Infrastructure, the defence ministry said.
Many Tories regard the defence of capitalism as part of a broader defence of freedom.
Elbit Systems said it will work closely with Diehl Defence and Airbus Defence and Space for the integration of the systems inside the A400M defence aid support systems protection suite.
"Software and applications that do not meet Defence standards will not be authorised for use on Defence networks and mobile devices," the country's defence department said in an email statement.
The Senate passed a defence-spending bill in September with $8.5bn to strengthen missile-defence systems.
Current American missile-defence systems, such as Patriot, THAAD (terminal high-altitude area defence) and Aegis, provide quite effective regional defence but are not designed to cope with a salvo of ICBMs.
"The defence council has accepted that Israel made the best offer and accordingly gave a recommendation to the government," the defence council, comprising top state and defence officials, said in a statement.
Rome, Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini speaks before Senate and Chamber of Deputies Defence joint committees (210 GMT).
Last week Italy's defence minister called for cyber-security and infrastructure costs to be counted as defence spending.
"You can't shield gravity," says David Delpy, who leads the Defence Scientific Advisory Council in Britain's defence ministry.
Britain's military equipment makers are looking to U.S. defence spending plans to offset defence budget pressure in Britain.
Romania has agreed to host a defence system, while Turkey already has a missile defence radar in place.
"It's hasty to call it missile-related activity," Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo told a parliamentary defence committee.
RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS TRANSPORTED S-400 MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEMS TO SERBIA TO TAKE PART IN MILITARY DRILLS - RIA
Instead it is pumping much of its growing defence budget into an American Patriot air defence system worth $4.8bn.
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan informally speaks before Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs and Defence committees (0700 GMT).
CAATSA sanctions could affect other areas of defence co-operation and arms development, says Arda Mevlutoglu, a defence-policy expert.
Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo will meet the U.S. acting secretary of defence, Patrick Shanahan, on Monday, the ministry said.
Francis Tusa, a defence analyst, argues that America's Department of Defence (DoD) would launch an "intrusive inspection" of any sale.
Most countries now have civilian defence ministers; some have exerted control over defence policy, through white papers and the like.
"Point" defence systems like America's Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence, which protects fixed sites from incoming missiles, might remain effective.
Germany has put the brakes on some defence exports to the frustration of some contractors like Airbus Defence and Space.
SAUDI DEPUTY DEFENCE MINISTER SAYS MET U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE, DISCUSSED MUTUAL CHALLENGES AND EMPHASIZED IMPORTANCE OF MILITARY COOPERATION - TWEET
Rome, Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini speaks before Senate Defence Committee on Italian military missions abroad, expecially in Iraq (2100 GMT).
VILNIUS, May 27 (Reuters) - Lithuania seeks to acquire the NASAMS medium-range air defence system developed by Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen and U.S. defence contractor Raytheon , the Baltic state's defence minister told the BNS news agency on Friday.
Sylvie Goulard, a French former defence minister and close ally of Mr Macron, takes charge of the single market and defence.
In Brussels, Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said he had briefed U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.
Much of Japan's recent defence spending splurge has gone on equipment supplied by U.S. defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co. Local makers such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have seen their share of defence spending shrink.
"We are still negotiating," Leonardi, head of the defence facilities at Indonesia's defence ministry who goes by one name, said by telephone.
The Ministry of Defence is still in talks over a deal to buy an air defence system from with Lockheed Martin's MEADS despite having approached rival U.S. group Raytheon about its Patriot system, Dziennik quoted the deputy defence minister as saying.
PRAGUE, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The Czech army is to buy 20 Pandur-II armoured vehicles from Tatra Defence Vehicle for 2.1 billion crowns ($82.77 million), the Czech Defence Ministry said on Monday, marking the second major deal for the defence company.
Vityaz (Knight) is a short-to-mid range surface-to-air defence missile system, developed by Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defence Corporation.
Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti speaks before Chamber of Deputies and Industry committees on the European developing programme for the defence sector (0730 GMT).
And the European Commission can put up money for defence research; as with its monitoring of deficits, it can scrutinise national defence budgets.
Indian defence scientists have sought political approval for live tests but successive governments had baulked, fearing international condemnation, an Indian defence official said.
The two countries' defence ministers discussed the issue on the sidelines of an international conference in Bangkok last month, Seoul's defence ministry said.
Defence Minister Hulusi Akar attends a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels and meets the acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.
Britain had long blocked EU defence integration and France's Defence Minister Sylvie Goulard said on Wednesday now was the time to act: "This is a turning point to better share the costs, but also the defence capacities," she said in a statement.
HAMBURG (Reuters) - The German military is to buy new, more capable air defence radar systems for three F-124 frigates, paving the way for the ships to become part of NATO's broader missile defence system, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey would not accept threats regarding its defence procurements, referring to its plan to buy S-400 defence systems from Russia.
Defence Minister Christopher Pyne and Defence Industry Minister Steven Ciobo both announced on Saturday morning that they would not stand in the coming election.
He saw growth in international defence and aerial emergency services while returns from the group's British defence business would be flat or modestly higher.
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen rejects Trump's claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States "vast sums" of money for defence.
Schwer told Reuters last year that SAMI had approached a number of South African defence companies to help it fulfil its domestic defence needs.
Rising defence budgets worldwide, and particularly in America, mean that there are still plenty of growth opportunities for the world's third-largest defence company.
Two Russian bombers and two Chinese bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday, South Korea's defence ministry said.
Norway's prime minister and defence minister will present the plan at 1200 GMT, which will hold significant potential for Norwegian defence contractors, it added.
India's defence and foreign ministries did not respond to requests for comment and the defence ministry has not stated whether any test was conducted.
However, Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta has confirmed that Italy is committed to reach Nato's defence spending target of 2 percent of gross domestic product.
Even as far as the defence side of research and development is concerned (normally considered a safe bet under a Republican administration), he's talked before about America going alone on defence and other times he's talked about the rest of the world providing global defence.
"There is a defence umbrella contained within South Korea, there is a defence umbrella for Japan, there are naval assets between Korea, Japan and Guam, and there is a missile defence system of Guam that make up a multi-level defensive umbrella," Calvo said.
Shares of companies related to national defence gained after a report that Trump had recently spoken privately about withdrawing from the defence treaty with Japan.
Amit Cowshish, who handled defence accounting in the ministry, said more than funds, the bigger problem was lack of clarity on the defence procurement policy.
And defence secretary Gavin Williamson said on Thursday that the Ministry of Defence was deploying forces with "unique military capability" to bring down the drones.
The defence ministry spends about 70% of its budget on salaries and pensions (about a third of the United States' defence spending is on personnel).
President Tayyip Erdogan will meet the Azeri Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov (13 GMT) and chair a meeting of the Defence Industry Executive Committee (1300 GMT).
The UK defence ministry has said it is in talks with Germany to sign a new defence co-operation agreement after the country launches Brexit.
The MDA, a unit of the U.S. Defence Department, is overseeing installation of the Lockheed Martin Co -made ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defence system.
We also discussed Canada's efficiencies defence, whereby increased efficiencies attributable to a merger may be used as a defence against the merger's anti-competitive effects.
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - ** Shares of BAE Systems , Europe's largest arms company, up nearly 4 pct leading a rally across defence stocks as Trump's presidential win firms up expectations of a ramp-up in regional defence spending ** Trump has called on NATO alliance partners to do more to pay for their own security ** "It is a net positive for defence and the U.S defence industry in particular," said aerospace consultant Jerrold Lundquist, managing director of The Lundquist Group ** UK defence contractor Cobham up 3.3 pct.
Defence will get more only if non-defence discretionary spending gets less, says Todd Harrison of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank.
"The defence budget has become a sinkhole that draws from every budget and surplus ... The defence budget keeps growing while the social budgets shrink," she added.
R.J. visited the Prado Museum in Madrid and was embarrassed by The Defence of Zaragoza, which, while I'm no professional, looks like some pretty good defence.
Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe is due to visit the United States later this year but China's Defence Ministry suggested last week that may not happen.
As the Russian bear growled that year, military staff began planning for old-fashioned territorial defence, which is virtually inseparable from the defence of NATO neighbours.
JERUSALEM, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Israeli defence electronics firm and Switzerland's RUAG Defence said on Thursday they signed a deal to form a joint venture in Switzerland.
He also said the government would raise defence spending within its means, and that the defence and development ministries had made written requests for extra funding.
Much of the work is being conducted under the aegis of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, a research arm of America's defence department.
A Japanese defence official observes that since the country published its last defence guidelines in 543, North Korea has tested 53 missiles and three nuclear bombs.
That means resisting or defusing Chinese displeasure over the proposed fielding of the THAAD (terminal high-altitude area defence) ballistic-missile defence system in South Korea.
As Doug Loverro, America's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Space Policy, puts it, space is an environment which, at the moment, favours attack over defence.
The White House did not mention the voluntary bilateral agreement but said the two leaders agreed to strengthen their defence cooperation and South Korea's defence capabilities.
They have turned to self-defence militias for protection against jihadists and rival ethnic groups though the defence groups have also used their weapons to settle scores.
China has stopped punishing South Korea for playing host to an American missile-defence battery and this month restarted bilateral defence talks after a two-year hiatus.
Underscoring that, the Chinese and Philippines defence ministers met in Beijing on the sidelines of Duterte's visit, and pledged to restore security ties, China's Defence Ministry said.
Defence lawyer Gerard McCoy argued that the judge had narrowed down the scope of the defence case by conflating an abnormality of mind with a psychiatric disorder.
At issue is the planned installation, on a hilltop a few kilometres away, of an American-funded missile-defence battery called THAAD (Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence).
NEW DELHI, April 6 (Reuters) - The Indian defence ministry's website was hacked on Friday and the government was working to restore it, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
It was a "big day for the European defence union", noted Ursula von der Leyen, then German defence minister and now president-elect of the European Commission.
He will preside over a European Defence Fund which will devote €212bn ($22016bn) over seven years to boosting research and stitching together the continent's fragmented defence industry.
As Director General for Defence and Intelligence in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, he was the lead adviser on counter-proliferation and other defence policy and intelligence areas.
"Hoisting of the Maritime Self-Defence Force ensign is required by law," Katsutoshi Kawano, the chief of staff of the Self Defence Forces, told reporters on Thursday.
Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist and Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom had on Tuesday told Gotland and Karlshamn officials in a meeting that the deals would harm Swedish defence interests.
"NATO's own figures clearly show that the UK spends over 2 percent of its GDP on defence," a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
The finance ministry has come up against strong opposition from the defence ministry and security services when it has sought to cut outlays on defence in the past.
"If THAAD is deployed by the U.S. military in Korea, it will be helpful for our security and defence," South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said.
THAAD, or Terminal High Altitude Area Defence, is an American missile-defence system designed to guard against North Korea that was installed in South Korea starting in March.
My interest was piqued: Self-defence tends to be dominated by burly dudes—meaning that traditional self-defence classes, however well-intentioned, may be triggering for sexual abusers.
While this year's Broncos features a dominant defence and a mediocre offence, the 2013 squad had a mediocre defence and the highest-scoring offence of the modern era.
This, he said, was one of the proposals being looked at in a review of defence policy conducted by his impeccably unilateralist new shadow defence secretary, Emily Thornberry.
Ms Tsai's choice of defence minister, Feng Shih-kuan, the former head of a state-run aerospace company, reflects her desire to build up a local defence industry.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Technical problems will delay the completion of the Polish section of a U.S. defence shield by two years to 2020, Poland's defence ministry said on Thursday.
Seven of those struck by rocks were members of Japan's Ground Self Defence Force (SDF) engaged in winter training maneuvers, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
The Russian Defence Ministry said at the time that "not a single air defence missile launcher of the Russian Armed Forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border".
Poll: The defence business of Airbus laid out plans to cut more than 9.83,300 jobs, including 829 in Germany, citing a flat space market and postponed defence contracts.
State-owned defense company Konstrukta Defence will work with Patria, owned by the Finnish government and Norwegian firm Kongsberg Defence&Aerospace, to build 81 eight-wheeled armored personal carriers with an estimated value of 417 million euros that will be bought by the Slovak army, Defence Minister Peter Gajdos told reporters.
Defence and prosecution lawyers made legal arguments in front of Judge Ye Lwin on Wednesday, after the defence filed a motion to have the case thrown out last week.
South Korea's defence ministry said that regardless of the end of GSOMIA, it would maintain a "stable" joint defence posture based on a robust alliance with the United States.
Two Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) together early on Tuesday, the South Korean defence ministry said.
Short of a formal defence treaty, an idea rejected before a previous summit, Riyadh and its allies hope to come away from their meeting with new missile defence systems.
The Iranian military launched two days of air defence drills on Monday across northern Iran, and state TV aired footage of surface-to-air missiles and air defence systems.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will speak with all interested parties, including Russia, over its plans to develop a long-range missile defence system, a top defence official said on Tuesday.
Francis Tusa, a defence expert, says that although British defence firms are now "very competitive on cost" compared with their American rivals, this does not help them much elsewhere.
On October 23rd Jokowi appointed as his minister of defence Prabowo Subianto, a retired general whose party would like to erase the distinction between external defence and internal security.
"I will never tolerate the North's provocations and nuclear threats," he said on a visit to the defence ministry, urging the South's military to adopt a "watertight defence posture".
Saudi Arabia has never been able to escape from this dilemma and the country's oil policy has cycled between a priority on price defence and volume defence (tmsnrt.rs/2TYmwu1).
Ursula von der Leyen, president-elect of the European Commission and previously German defence minister, wants "bold steps in the next five years towards a genuine European Defence Union".
PARIS (Reuters) - French Defence Minister Florence Parly is heading for Mali to honor the 13 French soldiers killed during an operation on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, Israel's state-owned defence contractor Rafael said that India's Ministry of Defence had cancelled a deal worth about $500 million to buy Spike anti-tank guided missiles.
The partnership should bring together Raytheon's market-leading position in air-defence systems and guided missiles with Rheinmetall's expertise in combat and defence systems, army weapons and munitions, they said.
JAKARTA, May 11 (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to purchase some Airbus A400M military transport aircraft, the defence minister told Reuters on Wednesday, in a potential boost to Europe's largest defence project.
The top civil servant in Sri Lanka's defence ministry, Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando, resigned on Thursday, taking responsibility for the attacks after Sirisena pinned the blame on the security services.
South Africa's defence industry once played a major role in its economy, but has suffered from the impact of a squeeze on defence spending globally and a weak home market.
But U.S. officials have also sown confusion about their support for a new defence pact to coordinate European Union defence policy and allow countries to club together to buy arms.
The Ground Self Defence Force helicopter, built by Boeing Co, came down in Saga prefecture during training, Minister of Defence Itsunori Onodera said in comments aired by public broadcaster NHK.
At the start of the month, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said the biological defence lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland was involved in the project to develop a vaccine.
None of the air strikes hit zones where Russian air defence systems protect the Russian bases of Tartus and Hmeimim, Russian news agencies cited the Ministry of Defence as saying.
Nkurunziza and Ndayishimiye are close allies who started out in the CNDD-FDD (Council for the Defence of Democracy-Force for the Defence of Democracy) as rebels in the 1990s.
"Therefore, this project of the two defence ministers of France and Germany is not a critique of the A2400M, rather it reflects that progress on a common European defence," Hoke said.
Prime Minister Theresa May fired her defence minister Gavin Williamson on Wednesday over the leak from a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) which discusses intelligence coordination and defence strategy.
MESA will probably go the way of other half-baked defence schemes—from the Arab League's Joint Defence Council of 1950 to Saudi Arabia's Islamic Military Counter-Terrorism Coalition in 2015.
The assumption then was that Turkey would go with MEADS (medium extended air defence system), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin, an American defence company, and MBDA, a European missile consortium.
Under the elaborate rules of defence purchases, once manufacturers have submitted expressions of interest, the defence ministry will issue requests for proposals likely to be in the third quarter of 2019.
That she did a stint as an adviser on defence to Mr Abe, and then as defence minister, makes her a rival to Mr Abe even on his pet topic, security.
But defence lawyers say that people jailed before their trial cannot participate effectively in their own defence, and often plead guilty just to avoid a long pre-trial wait in jail.
The UK defence ministry said it was working with Germany "on a joint vision statement on future co-operation" while the German defence ministry confirmed it was working on joint projects.
The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, Stephen Lovegrove, will also visit the Kingdom next month for discussions on Saudi defence reform, which Britain has pledged to assist, it said.
PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Defence electronics group Thales has won a contract to supply the French armed forces with 35 mini-drones surveillance systems, the country's defence ministry said on Thursday.
"We will continue to strengthen the defence capability of our nation and continue missile tests and training," the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Oleksander Turchynov, said on Wednesday.
The project, which started in June 2015 with a feasibility study, is being funded with £1.5 million from the UK Ministry of Defence, via DSTL, the Defence Science and Technology Lab.
BUILDING DEFENCE The release would allow Ghosn - the architect of Nissan's automaking partnership with Renault and Mitsubishi - to meet his new legal team frequently and build a defence ahead of trial.
Poland expects to sign a $7.6 billion deal with Raytheon to buy eight Patriot missile defence systems by the end of this year, its Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said last month.
Naftali Bennett, who heads the New Right party, will take the defence portfolio from the right-wing Netanyahu, who has simultaneously served as premier and defence minister for nearly a year.
U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper visits Seoul later on Thursday, ahead of a meeting with South Korean Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo for the annual Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) on Friday.
Babcock, a key supplier of engineering and defence services to Britain's ministry of defence, said Cairnie will assume the role on Turner's retirement at the annual general meeting on July 18.
ANKARA, March 10 (Reuters) - Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu discussed northwest Syria's Idlib region in a phone call, the Turkish defence ministry said on Tuesday.
The aerospace and defence company is considering bidding, together with its French partner, for MDA Corporation, a Canadian space and defence company controlled by U.S. Maxar , la Repubblica reported on Saturday.
Except for the CIA, the heads of those agencies all report to other bosses—the defence agencies to the defence secretary, the FBI chief to the attorney-general, and so forth.
The day's worst performer was defence contractor Babcock which sank more than 7 percent Defence contractor Ultra Electronics was the latest in a string of companies to issue a profit warning.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest defence company BAE Systems (BAES.
Defence-sector stocks, including Bharat Electronics , Astra Micro Wave Products Ltd, Reliance Defence and Engineering Ltd and Walchandnagar Industries Ltd rose between 6.8 pct and 17.3 pct, on hopes of new contracts.
The president attacked the continent's leaders for (mostly) failing to meet the alliance's target for defence spending of 2% of GDP, and pointedly neglected to mention Article 5, NATO's mutual-defence clause.
FRANKFURT, March 1 (Reuters) - German defence and automotive group Rheinmetall reported a better-than-expected 23 percent year-on-year jump in 2016 operating profit on Wednesday, driven by its defence unit.
French Defence Minister Jean Yves Le Drian has warned of "cyber destabilisation" and media reports say defence and security agencies are due to meet soon under President Francois Hollande on the issue.
FRANKFURT, Feb 17 (Reuters) - German and U.S. defence groups Rheinmetall and Raytheon have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate globally on defence technology, they said in a joint statement on Friday.
Russia's Defence Ministry handed over a protest note to the Ukrainian defense attache, while Oleksander Turchinov, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council Secretary, dismissed Moscow's claims that Kiev had breached international agreements.
The prince, who is also defence minister, is due to meet the French foreign and defence ministers later today and attend an event at the Institute of the Arab World this evening.
"Not a single air defence missile launcher of the Russian Armed Forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border," Russia's TASS news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying in a statement.
Romania's Aerostar SA on behalf of the economy ministry and U.S. company Raytheon International Defence System signed memorandum regarding cooperation on equipment and components for the multi-level air defence integrated system.
"These figures are wrong: NATO's own figures clearly show that the UK spends over 2 percent of its GDP on defence," a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
"What will never change (is) the unwavering commitment of the United States to the security and defence of Europe, of our transatlantic relationship and the commitment to our common defence," he said.
Indian military officials have said the plan is to build at least 200 helicopters the defence forces need, and is part of Modi's drive to build a defence industrial base in India.
"The comments came as the UK defence secretary said the country would need to forge new defence alliances with other countries as the US risks "[withdrawing] from its leadership around the world.
South Korea "is a wealthy country and could and should pay more", U.S. Secretary of Defence Mark Esper said after his meeting with South Korea's Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo last week.

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