Weapons Procurement: Domestic Production versus Imports

Ronald Smith and Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: There is a wide range of acquisition modes, from the purchase of an entirely national weapon to importing it from a friendly country, but sometimes from a state wishing to increase its returns to scale. There are some ambiguities in choosing between import and export, when the products are available in the country at widely divergent prices. The quality of technology, industrial property, weapon components and the independence criteria adopted by the state must be taken into account. There are arguments in favor of national public procurement on military aspects, but national security must be able to have the best military technology at its disposal as part of a policy of deterrence. On the industrial aspects, arms production makes it possible to develop research and development, but it is also a financial risk in the framework of an arms race.

Keywords: Weapon procurement; armament industry; arms import; arms export; Achat d’armes; industrie d’armement; importations d’armes; exportations d’armes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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Published in Bellany & Huxley. New Conventional Weapons and Western Defence, Frank Cass,, 1987

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