Imports of Russian military hardware peaked in 2005 and have declined precipitously since then.
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About one-third of the military financing is used for acquisitions of American-made military hardware.
In contrast, Nazi Germany did not field the best or the most advanced military hardware.
They provide everything from advanced military hardware and components to relatively prosaic materials and supplies.
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India and Russia are long-time allies and Russia supplies 70% of India's military hardware.
He said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.
That matters as India tries to improve a dismal record of building military hardware.
One ship, they explain, can bring in more weapons than a fleet of lorries with hidden military hardware.
The U.S. has similar offices in other countries that are buyers of U.S. military hardware, for instance, in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The Clyde shipyards are protected from foreign competition by a European rule that lets countries keep military hardware in their own countries.
Since then, South Africa has become a major exporter of military hardware.
An early trailer for "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" showed a piece of future military hardware that isn't on the current battlefield.
But if we were buying so much military hardware, how could we build so many dams and bridges--103 with another 23 under construction.
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Much of the U.S. aid is going to military hardware, and many within the region argue that the buildup will only escalate the fighting.
At the same time we have been accused of having only a single source for our military hardware and spending so much on that hardware.
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In a news conference with his Israeli counterpart on Monday, Mr Hagel said the US will make available to Israel a set of advanced military hardware.
As Mr Biden was showing off US military hardware in Beirut, Hezbollah was staging its own show of strength in Nabatieh, a provincial centre south-east of the capital.
That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.
To cut spending on military hardware or increase it, to build more F-22 fighter planes and aircraft carriers, or spend more on unmanned drones and beefed-up ground forces.
After all, DNA is charged with assuring that the effects of nuclear weapons on conventional military hardware and equipment are properly understood and factored into designs and operational practices.
They relate not to arguments about the possibility for "permanent structured cooperation" among member states (one of the provisions in the Lisbon Treaty), but to a lack of military hardware.
When companies compete to build military hardware, they expect that once a contract is won they will be the sole supplier of a weapon system for a decade or longer.
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Security analysts have noted a marked shift in India's acquisitions of military hardware, from conventional land-based systems to means of power projection such as airborne refuelling systems and long-range missiles.
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All these steps, to say nothing of the research and development and procurement costs associated with the next generation of military hardware simply cannot be paid for within existing budget limitations.
The official, speaking on condition of not being identified, said the change referred to public statements by the Obama administration instead of how U.S. military hardware were being deployed in the region.
Indeed, the bottom line for Moscow appears to be the goal of making its military-industrial complex more efficient, achieving higher productivity even as the costs associated with the manufacture of state-of-the-art military hardware are reduced.
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Officials, however, are sceptical as to whether Delhi and Moscow can really shift their relationship from the prevailing unequal one of a buyer and seller of military hardware to jointly developing defence equipment and marketing it globally.
Without thoughtfulness and attention to detail (especially the detail that can be provided by good intelligence), all the military hardware in the world is insufficient to protect a state against others that bear old grudges against it.
They were engaged in a lucrative border trade in gems, logs and products such as shrimp, in the process swelling the bank accounts of local commanders whose compliance was required for the free flow of military hardware and commercial goods.
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