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The main arms-manufacturing sectors in Britain today are aircraft, shipbuilding, mechanical engineering, and electronics. Other industries, especially electrical engineering, instrument engineering and motor vehicles, are also engaged, to a lesser extent, in production for the military market. In the USA, the automobile industry plays a much more important role in the defence sector than in Britain. Table 6.1 shows the military share of output for each of these industries.
The author is grateful to officials in the Ministry of Defence, who provided some very useful comments.
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Kaldor, M. (1980). Technical Change in the Defence Industry. In: Pavitt, K. (eds) Technical Innovation and British Economic Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04561-7_6
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