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Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Sale of Aircraft to Saudi Arabia") [deal closed: details] [declassified Jul 2015]

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Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)") ["some thoughts of my own about problems that lie behind our talks with the Americans about space issues"; FCO briefing attached for MT talks in Wash

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Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Rising Costs of Defence Procurement") [proposal to set up interdeparmental working group to address Defence procurement value for money & scope for greater collaboration and standardisation withing NATO] [d

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Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("National Defence Technological Capabilities") [comments on working group report; information on technologies not covered by the report] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Defence: John Coles minute to MT ("National Defence Technological Capabilities") [No.1o request for follow-up to work to working group report] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Surface-to-Surface Guided Weapons for the Royal Navy") [proposal that contract should go to US firm in preference to BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Defence: Tebbit minute to MT ("Surface to Surface Guided Weapon") [agreement, with qualifications, to Heseltine proposal that contract should go to US firm in preference to BAe] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Future Fighter Aircraft") [proposed feasibility study on collaboration with France, W. Germany, Italy & Spain] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") [agreement reached with France, West Germany, Spain & Italy to launch a 6-month collaborative Feasibility Study] [declassified Dec 2014]

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Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("European Fighter Aircraft") ["major and complex issues that the Government will need to consider"] [declassified Dec 2014]

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