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...sales pitch something like that persuaded the United Arab Emirates to order 390 of France's state-of-the-art AMX Leclerc battle tanks for an estimated $3.5 billion, beating out the American Abrams M1A2 and British Challenger 2. The deal, which also buys the U.A.E. 46 noncombat tanks and armored escort vehicles, represents a major victory for financially beset, state-owned Giat Industries and gives France a greater foothold in the lucrative Middle Eastern armaments market. Since the Gulf War, the Gulf Cooperation Council alone has placed $40 billion in military-hardware orders...
From France. The armed forces have 21 Mirage IIIs, still among the world's best fighters, five Super Etendard aircraft (a carrier-based equivalent of the Mirage), 120 AMX-13 light tanks, 16 Roland surface-to-air missiles, 32 MS-760A Paris II ground-support fighter bomber planes and three corvettes...
...SINGAPORE. Its small army of 30,000 is by far the finest in non-Communist Southeast Asia. Both the army and air force have an impressive armory, including 75 AMX-13 tanks, 530 personnel carriers, 60 155-mm howitzers and 103 modern combat aircraft. Though Singapore is spending over $400 million a year on its tough little army, one U.S. specialist notes that "it doesn't have that much to offer in terms of quantity that would make the difference...
...while Jordan recently exported aging British-made tanks to South Africa (which were quaintly listed on the shipping manifests as "earthmoving tractors"). Argentina has been developing its defense industry during the past decade by manufacturing arms under license; for example, it has built more than 100 of the French AMX-13 tanks. The Argentines are currently trying to interest South Africa and Bolivia in the Pucara, an Argentine-designed counterinsurgency plane made with French, British, Swiss and Belgian components...
...missile (12,000), CH-47 Chinook helicopter (309), F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber (1,100), C-130 Hercules transport (230), F-5 fighter-bomber (1,500), A-4 Skyhawk attack fighter (460) and TOW anti-tank missile (12,500); France's Exocet antiship missile (about 800 sold), AMX-30 battle tank (1,000) and Mirage III fighter-bomber (700); Israel's Gabriel antiship missile...