Word: exportability
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Communist nations closely guard their export figures, but Pentagon experts believe that China supplies some weapons (such as MIG-21 fighter-bombers, with instrument panels and operating manuals in Chinese) to North Viet Nam, North Korea, Pakistan and a few revolutionary movements in Africa. Poland is a major outlet for the Warsaw Pact's surplus tanks. Czechoslovakia, whose famed Bren gun as well as the Skoda Works' howitzers made the country second only to Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues. It sells some jet trainers to other Communist states and Syria...
Foreign policy and strategy aside, for many nations arms exports have been a useful means of keeping their defense industries alive. The increased volume provided by sales abroad improves production efficiency and helps amortize research and development costs. Without its large export market, for instance, France's Dassault-Breguet aircraft company would probably be unable to produce Mirages at a price that the French air force could afford...
...Corp. (Chicago), M-113 armored personnel carriers. Defense export sales: $271.8 million...
...years ago he was able to supply Sudan's mounted cavalry with much needed lances, which he had picked up from Argentine arsenals. With ten weapons-filled warehouses in Alexandria, Va., Cummings today can supply a small army at short order-if Washington gives him an export license...
West Germany's Gerhard Mertins, who was frequently used by Bonn in the 1960s to export arms when political considerations prevented the government from doing so itself, is now a specialist in Middle East weapons requirements. Another freelance supplier, California's Michael Kokin, boasts that his company can "clothe a naked army, put it in the field and provide spare parts for its weapons...