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Arms spending; G/AIR Five Westland Wessex helicopters in formation flight AV Shipboard Anti-aircraft gun emplacement rotates as radar rotates in b/g INT CMS British Aerospace stand at arms exhibition PAN L-R model aircraft on display CMS Model of Harrier VTOL jet as V/O talks about virtues of Sea Skua missile system SOF MS Arms buyers chatting naval officers MS Arms buyers chatting CMS SIDE buyers chatting & looking at video monitor CMS Artillery shells on display MS Buyers chatting TMS Weapons control part on display AV BAe video display PAN L-R model aircraft AV Ferranti International stand as mock radar rotates in f/g AV Ferranti International illuminated sign CMS Paul Beaver (Jane's Defence Weekly) intvwd - says that recent Ferranti fraud case could be repeated in other defence manufacturing establishments SOF CMS SIDE Buyers chatting CMS Robert Linford (Defence Manufacturers Assoc) intvwd - selling of weapons is getting much tougher - many third world countries are buying cheaper weapons from the Far East SOF MS GEC-Marconi stand MS Gas turbines on display EXT CMS Alan Thomas (Defence Export Services) intvwd - very little growth foreseen in the arms market SOF