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   CommonSpace    
   February 2, 2018    
   CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE (CAAT) will hold a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in London on 3 February in opposition to the UK ... the bombs and we know that some are being manufactured in Scotland - including ones being used on schools - in the Raytheon Factory in Glenrothes.     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Scottish Daily Record    
   February 4, 2017    
   Amnesty International will make a submission to the court, along with Human Rights Watch, Rights Watch (UK) and Oxfam. Raytheon's factory in Glenrothes makes laser guidance systems for Paveway IV missiles. The Sunday Mail last year exposed links between Raytheon smart bombs and alleged warÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Herald Scotland    
   November 1, 2016    
   Mr Finnie, his party's justice spokesman, said: “It is rank hypocrisy for SNP MPs, as they have, to condemn the sale of arms from the UK while at the same time ... The Herald's sister paper, the Sunday Herald, recently revealed former SNP enterprise minister Fergus Ewing had visited the Raytheon factory inÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Guardian    
   August 20, 2016    
   Raytheon's factories in Essex and Scotland produce the Paveway IV guided bomb which, according to its manufacturer, has been “put to the test in every major conflict” and proved itself “time and again, as the weapon of choice by the end users”. One enthusiastic end user is Saudi Arabia, now the UKÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   International Business Times    
   July 13, 2016    
   “We will assemble the missile and launchers in the same Raytheon factories where we produce many of the world's most advanced missiles and other weapons systems,” Raytheon Missile Defense Systems President Taylor Lawrence said, in a statement. The NSM — equipped with an infrared imageÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Defenseworld.net    
   July 13, 2016    
   ... same Raytheon factories where we produce many of the world's most advanced missiles and other weapons systems." Raytheon expects to perform final assembly, integration and test of NSM at the company's Tucson, Arizona facility. Launchers would be manufactured at Raytheon's factory in Louisville,Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Scottish Daily Record    
   July 19, 2015    
   They said: “The majority of our UK manufacturing did move to Glenrothes.” Meanwhile, the UK Government have lifted all restrictions on arms sales to Israel. The move followed a year-long review of export licences for arms which ministers said may have been used in last year's bombing of Gaza. Last weekÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Fife Today    
   August 13, 2014    
   Locals will march on the Raytheon plant in Glenrothes this weekend after claims it is producing components for weapons used in the attacks in Gaza. The factory, in the town's Queensway Industrial estate, as well as others throughout the UK, makes laser guidance systems used in bombs similiar to thoseÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Scottish Daily Record    
   August 9, 2014    
   The Israelis claimed the owner of the building was called before the attack and asked to evacuate the block. Three jet fighters then rained bombs on the building. The violence continued yesterday as the UK Government came under further pressure to stop arms sales to Israel after the resignation of ForeignÃâà...     
    
   
  
   
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