The procurement of military systems may be used as a tool to achieve industrial objectives. Medium-sized industrialised countries have the choice of procuring foreign systems on the best economic terms available, or instead using defence procurement as a tool to build up domestic industrial and...

The roles and structure of government defence research establishments are being redefined in several European countries. So far, large-scale government controlled defence research establishments have played a key function in the development of technological capabilities in the defence field....