Word: amx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...ahead of the British, selling $3 billion in war materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
...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...
Sadat's agreement with France for up to 50 new Mirage F1s, along with AMX-30 tanks, Crotale surface-to-air missiles, French radar systems and $116 million in credits, will ease that pressure. Meanwhile, with help from Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing Arab states, Sadat is shifting from MIGs to Mirages in his air force and replacing most of the 120 planes that Egypt lost in the 1973 war. Sadat's success in securing arms has confounded his critics and eased pressures considerably...