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The UK Defense minister wants the US to buy more UK-made weapons

• http://www.businessinsider.com

Dunne also met with U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work to discuss U.S.-UK collaboration efforts, including the cooperative development of the F-35 fighter jet.

Britain was the sixth largest exporter of major weapons between 2010 and 2014, with the United States accounting for 12 percent of those exports, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

The U.S. State Department authorized more than $4.5 billion in sales of U.S. military equipment and services to Britain, a 2014 State Department report showed.


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