BAE, Britain’s Largest Arms Maker, Posts Record Profits
Bodies of Somali refugees, killed in an Saudi helicopter attack while travelling in a vessel off Yemen, lie at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen, March 17, 2017. (Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)
Britain’s largest defense firm has made $733m in six months, and expects further growth, in results posted weeks after surviving a High Court challenge to its multi-billion-dollar arms deals with Saudi Arabia.