Defense Industry

The defence industry, also called the military industry, comprises government and commercial industry involved in research, development, production, and service of military materiel, equipment and facilities. It includes:

  • Defense contractors: business organizations or individuals that provide products or services to a military department of a government
  • The Arms industry, which produces guns, ammunition, missiles, military aircraft, and their associated consumables and systems

It can also include:

  • Private military contractors: private companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures for a military force
  • European defence procurement, which is more or less analogous to the U.S. "military-industrial complex"

Famous quotes containing the words defense and/or industry:

    “For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)