Blue Steel was the result of a Ministry of Supply memorandum from 5 November 1954 that predicted that by 1960 Soviet air defences would make it prohibitively dangerous for V bombers to attack with nuclear gravity bombs.

The Ministry of Supply selected Avro out of the British manufacturers though it had no previous experience in working on guided weapons other than some private venture work ; Handley Page had suggested a missile but the Elliots gyro based guidance system was inaccurate beyond.

The SC. 1 was designed to meet a Ministry of Supply ( MoS ) request for tender ( ER. 143T ) for a vertical take-off research aircraft issued in September 1953.

In later years the actual production of aircraft was the responsibility of the Ministry of Aircraft Production ( 1940 – 46 ), the Ministry of Supply ( 1946 – 59 ), the Ministry of Aviation ( 1959 – 67 ) and finally the Ministry of Technology ( 1967 – 70 ).

In 1945 when the owner sought the return of Gruinard Island, the Ministry of Supply recognized that the island was contaminated as a result of the wartime experiments and consequently it could not be derequisitioned until it was deemed safe.

At the outbreak of World War II in 1939 he was running his own machine tools business in London and later worked for the Ministry of Supply.

The British Government set up additional cordite factories, not under Royal Ordnance Factory control but as Agency Factories run on behalf of the Ministry of Supply ( MoS ).

In the Second World War Macmillan at last attained office, serving in the wartime coalition government as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply from 1940 to 1942.

This division lasted until 1941, when the Timber Supply Department was absorbed by the Ministry of Supply.

* Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, an early expert of the Ministry of Supply Experimental Squad charged with defuzing German bombs with unknown ( new ) fuzes

The museum's trench clubs were used by the Home Guard, while other items such as sights and optical instruments were returned to the Ministry of Supply.

During World War II, he was an honorary adviser to the British Ministry of Supply and did research on synthetic rubber and high-octane gasoline.

These departments merged in 1964 ; the defence functions of the Ministry of Aviation Supply merged into the Ministry of Defence in 1971.

During the Second World War Beeching, at the age of 29, was loaned by Mond Nickel on the recommendation of a Dr. Sykes at Firth Brown Steels to the Ministry of Supply, where he worked in their Armament Design and Research Departments at Fort Halstead.

After the war, the Ministry of Supply adapted the site to produce materials for nuclear weapons, principally plutonium, and construction of the nuclear facilities commenced in 1947.

He joined the weapons procurement agency, the Ministry of Supply where he worked on statistical problems with George Barnard.

During the Second World War, Blackie & Son Ltd used part of their Bishopbriggs works for the manufacture of 3. 45 " shells for the Ministry of Supply.

* 1939 At outbreak of war, seconded as Chief Superintendent of Armament Research to the Ministry of Supply which took over the mathematical laboratory for ballistics calculations, developed a team of mathematicians for this purpose.

* 1942-5 Director-General of Scientific Research ( Defence ), Ministry of Supply

* 1947-53 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Ministry of Supply

Its content was controlled by the now defunct Egyptian Ministry of Information. The pan-Arab Arabic-language edition of the paper, called Al Ahram Al Arabiya, is destined for readers in the Arab World and the Egyptian expatriates in Arab countries.

Following the 1989 Romanian Revolution, the Army decided to break all links to the defunct communist regime, so, in 1991, CSA Steaua had a last change of crest with an eagle also present on the Ministry of Defence coat of arms and also on Romania's.

According to Ukrainian TV, the base is now defunct and handed over to the Ministry of Emergencies.

In 1936, the entire German police force was reorganized and administrative functions previously exercised by the now largely defunct federal states were reassigned to the Reich Ministry of Interior.

The domain remained delegated to this company, even though it was defunct, until April 17, 2009, at which time the. so domain record was changed in the root zone to point to the servers of the new registry operator, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in Somalia.

The name derives from the Ministry of Transport, a defunct Government department which was one of several ancestors of the current Department for Transport, but is still officially used.

A decision by the British Air Ministry to give them the defunct No. 75 Squadron numberplate on 4 April 1940, meant that the nucelus of The New Zealand Squadron personnel remained together as an operational unit of the RAF.

Conviasa was originally run by the now defunct Ministry of Production and Commerce ( Ministerio de la Producción y el Comercio ), but it has since been taken over by the Ministry of Infrastructure.

The project was co-held by the First and Second Research Institutes of the Ministry of Aerospace Industry ( defunct, see CNSA )

NCC was one of the visible outcomes from Harold Wilson's " White Heat of Technology " speech and the formation of a Ministry of Technology, the others being the computer company ICL and chip maker INMOS ( both now defunct ).

* Chemical Defence Establishment, a former part of the UK Ministry of Defence

* Enrolment of Deeds and other Documents at the UK Ministry of Justice website

Some of HPES's largest clients include: American Airlines, Rolls-Royce plc, General Motors, Bank of America, FEMSA, Commonwealth Bank Kraft, United States Navy, the UK Ministry of Defence, IDA, Royal Dutch Shell, and NASA.

The role of the UK Ministry of Defence, which at one time was Gibraltar's main source of income, has declined, with today's economy mainly based on shipping, tourism, financial services, and the Internet.

In practice, the process of appointment involves a panel in Jersey which select a preferred candidate whose name is communicated to the UK Ministry of Justice for approval before a formal recommendation is made to the Queen.

According to UK Ministry of Defence, British military forces have also used thermobaric weapons in their AGM-114N Hellfire missiles ( carried by Apache helicopters and UAVs ) against the Taliban in the War in Afghanistan.

Other estimates of Austro-Hungarian casualties are as follows: By Austrian Ministry of Defense in 1938: Military dead 1, 016, 200 By UK War Office in 1922: Dead 1, 200, 00 By US War Dept in 1924: 1, 200, 00 killed and died A study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940 estimated civilian 467, 000 deaths " attributable to war ", the primary cause being famine.

In 1934, the Air Ministry set up a committee chaired by Sir Henry Tizard to advance the state of the art of air defence in the UK.

The UK Ministry of Defence refers to the AGM-114N as an " enhanced blast weapon ".

The Maltese were also to have social and economic parity with the UK, to be guaranteed by the British Ministry of Defence ( MoD ), the islands ' main source of employment.

During the Second World War, the colleges of the university ( with the exception of Birkbeck ) and their students left London for safer parts of the UK, while Senate House was used by the Ministry of Information, with its roof becoming an observation point for the Royal Observer Corps.

In the 1990s, the company returned to profitability and grew as a result of several major contracts from the UK Ministry of Defence for EH101 Merlin helicopters and for 67 licence-built Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, designated the WAH-64 and entering full operational service in 2005.

Responsibility subsequently transferred to the Ministry of Public Building and Works ( 1962 – 1970 ) then to the Department of the Environment ( UK ) ( 1970 – 1997 ) and now the DCMS.

Also, Paradigm Secure Communications, initially created by Astrium in the frame of the Skynet 5 contract for the UK Ministry of Defence became the major constituent of EADS SPACE Services.

* UK Ministry of Justice

During World War I ( 1913-18 ), the local government board's laboratory was assumed by the national government, namely UK government, and became the Ministry of Health's Pathological Laboratory — where Griffith was medical officer.

As of 2012, the Ministry of Defence is conducting a 12 month investigation of the contamination to try and avoid Dalgety Bay " becoming the first place in the UK to be legally designated as radioactive contaminated land ".

As of 2012, the Ministry of Defence is conducting a 12 month investigation of the contamination to try and avoid Dalgety Bay " becoming the first place in the UK to be legally designated as radioactive contaminated land ".

In late 2004, KBR was named as a possible " physical integrator " for the Royal Navy future aircraft carrier, in this role it was to manage the " carrier alliance "; BAE Systems, Thales and the UK Ministry of Defence.

The process was patented by the UK Ministry of Defence then licensed by the National Research Development Corporation ( NRDC ) to three British companies: Rolls-Royce, already making carbon fiber, Morganite and Courtaulds.

Shortly after the US / UK led invasion of Iraq began in 2003, following an admission by the Ministry of Defence that Britain had dropped 50 airborne cluster bombs in the south of Iraq and left behind up to 800 unexploded bomblets, it was put to Hoon in a Radio 4 interview that an Iraqi mother of a child killed by these cluster bombs would not thank the British army.

Elements may include the government's sinister operative from Men in Black, the military bases known as Area 51, RAF Rudloe Manor or Porton Down, a supposed crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, the Rendlesham Forest Incident, a political committee dubbed the " Majestic 12 " or successor of the UK Ministry of Defence's Flying Saucer Working Party ( FSWP ).

In the UK, maritime search and rescue is coordinated by HM Coastguard while aeronautical rescue is delegated through the UK Ministry of Defence to the Royal Air Force, and land-based operations are usually coordinated by the local Police force.

Skynet is a family of military satellites, now operated by Paradigm Secure Communications on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence, which provide strategic communication services to the three branches of the British Armed Forces and to NATO forces engaged on coalition tasks.