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DEFENCE
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ANNEX B
Significant development in:
a.
Defence industries organisation, control, production, changes in output levels and product-mix, contribution to the civil economy, conversion of plant to civil output,
investment, re-subordination, sales and prices; in particular in the following sectors:
Aircraft and aero engines (civil and military).
Land arms.
(1)
(2)
(3)
military).
(4)
Missiles and space.
Shipbuilding and marine engineering (civil and
(5)
(6)
Conversion of ballistic
Ballistic
missiles to space launch vehicles.
missile proliferation.
All electronics (radar, electro-optics
communications, directed energy weapons, computers and micro-electronics) and novel electronic
techniques.
High energy physics and technology.
(7) Machine tools.
(8) New materials.
Security
b.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Exercises.
Statements on security subjects and attitudes of security and intelligence services and the military to political developments, in particular mutinies, strikes, ethnic and political troubles.
Progress of withdrawal of Russian forces from
Eastern Europe, Germany, and the non-Russian states of the FSU.
Appearances by and movements of senior military and politico-military personalities.
Nuclear, chemical and biological warfare developments.
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