A date with despots at Britain's arms fair
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/in-the-line-of-fire-a-date-with-despots-at-br...
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Excerpt: "As a Peruvian army captain in full uniform looks on, I am squinting down the viewfinder of the 'Serpent,' the first shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon I have ever handled, its crosshair fixed on a tank 291 metres in the far distance, my thumb poised on the fire button.
'Just send that right down and give someone a bad day,' says Brian Gaume, the man selling Serpents to those with a few millions to spare and an itchy trigger finger. I duly do, and on the simulator plasma screen in front of me a little green pixellated tank is duly obliterated.
At the Defence Security and Equipment International arms fair in London's Excel Centre, there is no shortage of options for dishing out bad days, weeks, months and whole lifetimes."
'Just send that right down and give someone a bad day,' says Brian Gaume, the man selling Serpents to those with a few millions to spare and an itchy trigger finger. I duly do, and on the simulator plasma screen in front of me a little green pixellated tank is duly obliterated.
At the Defence Security and Equipment International arms fair in London's Excel Centre, there is no shortage of options for dishing out bad days, weeks, months and whole lifetimes."
