Defence firm suffers new setback

One of the UK's biggest defence firms has warned of a £15 million hit to profits after a deal to help the US military with landmine clearance became its latest contract to suffer delay.

Chemring said the equipment, which fires lines charged with grenades in the air in order to trigger improvised explosive devices, had been put back to the final quarter of 2012 due to problems with a supplier.

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