BAE Systems Australia, a subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, is the largest defence contractor in Australia. It was formed by the merger of British Aerospace Australia and GEC-Marconi Systems and expanded by the acquisitions of Armor Holdings in 2007 and Tenix Defence in June 2008.
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—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
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—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)