---
title: "Defense Equipment Contracts"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/military-and-national-security-law-en/defense-equipment-contracts-en"
field: "Military & National Security Law"
description: "Defense equipment contracts in Georgia: sale rules, dispatch and defects under the Civil Code. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-19"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Defense Equipment Contracts

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/military-and-national-security-law-en/defense-equipment-contracts-en

## The Legal Basis of Defence Equipment Supply Contracts

A defence equipment supply contract — for systems, components or materials — stands, in legal terms, on the sale chapter of the Civil Code, and it is those norms that define the parties' rights and obligations at every stage of delivery: from order and conclusion through dispatch to the cure of defects. The defence dimension of the relationship is regulatory, not contractual: the military-product export permit and the manufacturing licence condition the delivery, but the relationship between supplier and buyer is ordinary sale law. Where the customer is a state body, the administrative-contract form is added — but that is a separate regime; below we explain the civil-law machinery on which every supply contract rests.

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### What is the seller's core obligation?

Transfer of ownership, delivery of documents and handover of the goods at the agreed price.

### When can the whole contract be avoided?

Where one failed delivery creates a real threat that future deliveries will also fail.

### Who guarantees against defects?

The seller cures or replaces the item and bears the costs, unless cure is disproportionately expensive.