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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Will Durrant

UK to build weapons plants and buy thousands of missiles in £6bn rearmament drive

Building at least six munitions and energetics factories will “better deter our adversaries”, Defence Secretary John Healey has said as part of plans for an “always on” weapons pipeline.

The Government has pledged £1.5 billion as part of the strategic defence review (SDR) to set up at least six factories, and will support the procurement of up to 7,000 UK-built long-range weapons.

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