Starstreak order welcomed

The North's Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister, Sir Reg Empey, has welcomed a £60 million British Ministry of Defence …

The North's Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister, Sir Reg Empey, has welcomed a £60 million British Ministry of Defence order for a Starstreak missile system awarded to the Belfast-based Shorts company yesterday.

Sir Reg said the order was a further endorsement of the "world-beating" expertise in the sophisticated software and electronics field, which Shorts, owned by Canadian-based Bombardier Aerospace, had developed.

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