Translation of "Rüstungsfirmen" in English

During the Second World War armament industry settled in the town.

Yet until recently the army of this same despot was receiving weapons and materials from German arms manufacturers.

For the weapons industry, war means "making real money".

For the weapons industry, war means “making real money”.

In fall 2016, 13 Swiss arms manufacturers signed a pact.

At the end of World War II the tunnels were used as underground factories by several arms manufacturers.

And it would encourage banks around the world to stop financing companies that manufacture nuclear arms.

Procurement of defence equipment, competition between defence companies, research and development, exports and imports of defence equipment, internal market aspects of defence trade and dual-use goods which have civil and military applications - all these are areas in which the benefits of the Single Market are of relevance to European industry.

From Saddam Hussein’s Iraq – armed by France, the UK, Germany, Russia and the USA – to Israel, via dictatorships in Latin America, Asia, Africa and elsewhere, no embargo has ever stopped the arms manufacturers, including some right here in Europe.

In this context, stakeholders mentioned arrangements for security of supply, transfers and transits, harmonisation of export policies, state aid, offset practice and the full privatisation of all European defence firms.

Firms from Europe also have to adopt special local arrangements in order to observe rules on ownership of defence firms in the United States.

In contrast to the prototypes and the first models, this partly also happened outside the MAZ plant at then still secret (or even officially nonexistent) armament companies like MZKT or KZKT.

I think it is an open secret that Iraq, the Iraqi government, has been able to build up an enormous military machine thank to us, largely thanks to the complicity of European arms manufacturers.

Nevertheless, to answer directly the question raised by Mr Crampton, the Commission does not envisage, for the time being, a financial assistance programme aimed at defence companies, in order to facilitate their conversion to civil activities. The underlying reasons are the following :

These stones contain the names and dates of two Soviet forced labourers who were unloaded in March and August 1944 from the wagons on which Deutsche Reichsbahn transported hundreds of slaves to Apolda to work for armaments companies.

The group has been active on the internet since at least 2004, operates across several units and always attacks very specific targets: European governments, NATO, and western arms manufacturers, particularly companies in the aerospace industry.

Vigils will take place outside arms manufacturing facilities and other locations calling on governments to stop arming the Israeli occupation rather than profiting from it.

This served the interests of the neoconservatives, the private armaments companies, the US military, the private security companies, government security agencies such as the CIA, the left-wing, the right-wing, the Israel Lobby, and the print and TV media.

According to these articles, the Eurofighter, which German arms manufacturers have played a significant role producing, are being used to carry out so-called precision bombing of the Houthi rebels.

He would never have come to power if he hadn't been financed by the armaments industry.

The decision is based on a secret feasibility study which NATO contracted out to several armaments companies.

This decision is based on an already completed feasibility study, conducted by major armament companies, which is classified.

It particularly aimed at hitting all those in the country who stood in the way of the hegemonistic powers, such as people from the spheres of industry and commerce as well as politics, and even representatives of the armaments industry and similar sectors who stood in the way of the monopolistic claims of the USA or - particularly between 1981-1986 - the former Soviet Union.

The fact that German armaments companies occasionally even obtain collective export authorizations for the collaboration with Israel makes it clear how significant this cooperation is from the German point of view.

Every year, the renowned SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research and Institute) in Sweden publishes a list of the 100 largest and most influential arms and weapons manufacturers in the world.

Meanwhile, Germany and Italy fund their own arms firms – Hensoldt, Airbus and Rheinmetall (Germany) and Leonardo and Intermarine (Italy) – to underpin border security work in a number of MENA countries in particular Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.