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Lockheed Martin Reports First Quarter 2021 Results - Net sales of $16.3 billion - Net earnings of $1.8 billion, or $6.56 per share - Generated cash from operations of $1.7 billion - Maintained backlog of approximately $147 billion - Increases 2021 financial outlook Share this article Share this article BETHESDA, Md., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] today reported first quarter 2021 net sales of $16.3 billion, compared to $15.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020. Net earnings in the first quarter of 2021 were $1.8 billion, or $6.56 per share, compared ...

One is the fitness-loving former oil magnate who kept his lucrative private sector job upon being parachuted into the upper echelons of government. The other is the City boss-turned-mandarin who joined Greensill Capital while still on the civil service payroll - and stood to make millions in shares.  Sir John Manzoni and Bill Crothers were today the latest ex-officials facing awkward questions after being dragged into the lobbying row echoing through Westminster. Both earned big bucks in the private sector, then entered the heart of government in a Whitehall drive to recruit fresh talent, be...

THE UK Government has secretly boosted the number of Trident nuclear warheads stored on the Clyde over the last five years, according to an analysis of bomb convoys. Nukewatch, which monitors the transport of nuclear weapons, estimated that 37 new warheads were delivered from England to Scotland between 2015 and 2020. Nine were added in 2019 and 13 in 2020, it said. In March the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reversed a 10-year-old disarmament plan by announcing the “ceiling” on the UK’s nuclear weapons stockpile would increase from 225 to 260 because of “technological and doctrinal ...

Letters Inclusivity in the armed forces | Festival of Brexit | Casual sexism | Boris Johnson | Signs of spring The Swiss army is to begin issuing female recruits with women’s underwear. Photograph: STR/REUTERS The Swiss army is to begin issuing female recruits with women’s underwear. Photograph: STR/REUTERS Thu 1 Apr 2021 12.58 EDT Last modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 13.33 EDT Women at the Aldermaston peace camp outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment welcome the introduction of female underwear for Swiss female armed forces recruits (Report, 31 March). They hope that the British defence rev...

UK's nuclear deterrent (CASD) Information about the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent (CASD) and the Dreadnought programme to replace the Royal Navy’s Trident missile Vanguard Class Submarines. From: Contents Defence is the first duty of government, and the threats facing the UK and its allies are increasing in scale, complexity and diversity. We have previously identified risks to the UK from major nuclear armed states, from emerging nuclear states, and state sponsored nuclear terrorism. Those risks have not gone away. That is why the government is committed to the UK’s indepe...