Were these skilled missile makers hard to find?

At the Paris Air Show this week, there are the usual missile makers and bomb builders, the helmet hawkers and flight suit fashionistas.

We, the undersigned airplane and missile makers, urge you to keep focusing on the misdeeds of Halliburton.

The deal continues the consolidation of the weapons business now that the cold war has ended and puts Hughes neck-and-neck with its chief rival, the Raytheon Corporation, as the nation's largest missile maker.

The British Government will sell Short Brothers, the ailing Belfast aircraft and missile maker, to Bombardier of Canada.

Supporters of the sale say it would save jobs at the Dallas-based missile maker and bolster LTV's international marketing ability.

The big missile makers are concentrating on launching heavy payloads - typically, communications satellites weighing two tons or more -into geosynchronous orbits 22,300 miles over the Equator.

Since January, the Clinton Administration has been quietly circumventing a new law intended to keep American supercomputers away from third-world bomb and missile makers.

The combined company, to be called Matra Bae Dynamics, will have annual sales of slightly more than 10 billion French francs ($1.95 billion), making it the third-biggest missile maker in the world.

RAYTHEON CO., Waltham, Mass., the world's largest missile maker, said it would combine two service and repair units to form a new unit called logistics and training systems.