Sentence examples for biggest defence from inspiring English sources

But nowadays the Pentagon is its biggest defence customer.

Rumours that Mr Turner was pushed by the board of Europe's biggest defence company were denied.

Chinese officers flit around in helicopters made by Eurocopter, part of EADS, Europe's biggest defence group.

Retreat will be the cry in the world's biggest defence market.

BAE, Europe's biggest defence contractor, employs about 100,000 people around the world.

As the country in Europe with the biggest defence budget we can make a real contribution.

WILL Europe's biggest defence-procurement programme, the Airbus A400M military transport, crash and burn before the aircraft has even flown?

So what might Europe's defence firms do in the absence of such a merger?The biggest defence-electronics firm is France's Thales.

EADS plus Thales would have been bigger than Boeing.The latest buzz is that Thales and Finmeccanica might merge to become the biggest defence-electronics combine in Europe, and a big force overseas.

But shopping trips across the Atlantic by France's Thomson-CSF, Europe's biggest defence-electronics firm, have been blocked.France may raise the most eyebrows in the American defence world, but Germany and Italy have also been disappointed by the Pentagon's waning enthusiasm for collaboration in high-tech defence manufacturing.

The government's many hesitations over the privatisation of Thomson-CSF, Europe's biggest defence-electronics firm, have delayed pan-European alliances in that sector.French firms' difficulties with foreign alliances are well illustrated by Giat, the state-owned maker of tanks, artillery and ammunition.