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The arms industry is a massive global industry. Its products include guns, bullets, missiles, military aircraft, and their associated consumables and systems. The arms trade is the exchange of arms or weapons among two or more parties, generally but not exclusively sovereign nations. Look up Gun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A gun is a mechanical device that fires projectiles at high velocity, using a propellant such as gun powder or compressed air. ...
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A missile (British English: miss-isle; U.S. English: missl) is, in general, a projectile—that is, something thrown or otherwise propelled. ...
Military aircraft are airplanes used in warfare. ...
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It is estimated that yearly over 150 billion dollars ($150B) is spent on arms. The word billion, and its equivalents in other languages, refer to one of two different numbers. ...
Almost every industrialized country in the world has its own arms industry to supply its own military forces. Some countries also have a substantial trade in weapons for legal civilian use. There is an illegal trade in small arms everywhere. In addition, there is a substantial international trade in arms, both legal and illegal. Frequently, there are links between the legal arms trade and the illegal arms trade, with legally purchased weaponry being re-sold for illegal purposes.
Massive contracts for weapons are awarded by governments, making arms contracts of substantial political importance for the giver and the recipient. There are often allegations of political corruption in regard to large arms contracts.
The link between politics and the arms trade can result in the development of what General Eisenhower described as a military-industrial complex, where the armed forces, commerce, and politics become unhealthily close. Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890–March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ...
The term military-industrial complex usually refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political and commercial interests, which grew rapidly in scale and influence in the wake of World War II, although it can also be used to describe any such relationship of...
Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Network on Small Arms say that roughly 500,000 people are killed each year by the use of small arms, and that there are over 600 million of such arms in circulation. Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...
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The term small arm describes any weapon that a person can easily transport and fire. ...
Ethically, the arms trade is problematic for many as they see supplying the weapons for a conflict as morally akin to becoming involved oneself, but at less risk to one's own nation or company. Essentially, they see the arms industry as means of profiting from war and death when failure to supply arms could lead to an early disengagement.
Top 15 arms exporters in 1999
- United States,$33bn
- United Kingdom, $5.2bn
- Russia, $3.1bn
- France, $2.9bn
- Germany,$1.9bn
- Sweden, $700m
- Australia, $600m
- Canada, $600m
- Israel, $600m
- Ukraine, $600m
- Italy, $400m
- Belarus, $300m
- People's Republic of China, $300m
- Bulgaria, $200m
- North Korea, $100m
source: Federation of American Scientists, [1] The United States dollar, or American dollar, is the official currency of the United States. ...
The Federation of American Scientists is a non-profit organization dedicated to the proper use of science and technology for the benefit of mankind. ...
United States arms trade In the US there is a distinction made between foreign military sales (FMS), where the Pentagon is used as an intermediate negotiator, and direct commercial sales (DCS), where a company directly negotiates with its buyer, in which case the company needs a license from the State Department. The Defense Department manages the excess defense articles (EDA), weapons from the US military given away or sold at bargain prices, emergency drawdowns, assistance provided at the discretion of the President, and international military education and training (IMET). A pre-9/11 view of The Pentagon, looking east with the Potomac River and Washington Monument in the distance. ...
The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...
The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated as DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ...
The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ...
In the period from 1989 to 1996 the global value of direct commercial arms sales was US$ 257 million, of which 45% was exported from the US. 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
International military education and training In fiscal year 2002 a total of 70 million USD was spent on IMET, spread over 113 countries.
In fiscal year 2002 a total of $46 million worth of drawdowns were provided to Nigeria ($4 million), Afghanistan ($2 million), Georgia ($25 million), the Philippines ($10 million) and Tunisia ($5 million).
Defense contractors are weapon manufacturers or companies participating in weapon research and warfare simulation. A defense contractor (sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a government. ...
See also private military contractor. Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer flanked by private military contractors Private military contractors or private military companies (PMCs) are companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures for a military force; when involved with logistics, companies may be described more generally as defense contractors. ...
List of major weapon manufacturers GLOCK is an Austrian defense contractor (named after the founder Gaston Glock) founded in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria. ...
The Thales Group is a global electronics company serving aerospace, defence, and information technology markets worldwide. ...
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA), one of two operating companies of Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG), is a supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications. ...
Armscor refers to either: the Philippines-based South African manufacturer of weapons. ...
Bofors is an iron works, cannon maker, and defence industry located in Karlskoga, Sweden. ...
Saab (originally an acronym for Svenska Aeroplan AB, where AB stands for aktiebolaget (corporation)) was founded as a Swedish aircraft concern in 1937 in the city of Linköping, in Sweden. ...
AAI may be: AAI Corporation Adam Aircraft Industries American Aviation Industries Aviation Industries Ilyushin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) is the leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facilities in Everett, Washington, near Seattle, Washington. ...
The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $24 billion of equity capital. ...
General Atomics is a nuclear physics and defense contractor in southern California. ...
List of assets owned by General Electric: // Primary business units GE Advanced Materials (production of military hardware and nuclear power equipment) GE Commercial Finance GE Consumer Finance GE Consumer Products GE Equipment Management GE Industrial Systems GE Insurance GE Healthcare GE Power Systems (production of turbines for nuclear reactors and...
The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures. ...
The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century. ...
Kaman Aircraft was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an aerospace manufacturer formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. ...
The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a 1994 merger between Northrop and Grumman. ...
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. ...
United Defense is a United States defense contractor with its corporate headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. ...
BAE Systems is the worlds third largest defence contractor and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ...
Rolls-Royce plc (also known as Rolls-Royce Aero Engines) is the second-largest aircraft engine maker in the world, behind General Electrics GE Aircraft Engines division. ...
Institutes participating in weapon research and warfare simulation The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ...
Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now called BBN Technologies) is a high technology company that provides research and development services. ...
QinetiQ is a British defence technology company, created out of the greater part of the government agency DERA when it was split up in June 2001 (with the smaller part forming dstl). ...
Related topics Al Yamamah (The Dove) was a series of massive UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, paid for over many years by up to 600,000 barrels of oil per day to the United Kingdom government. ...
The term small arm describes any weapon that a person can easily transport and fire. ...
The international movement to limit the availability of small arms in conflict zones Various international organizations (including Oxfam GB, Amnesty International and the United Nations) and domestic groups (eg the Small Arms Working Group in the US) have committed themselves to limiting the trade in, and proliferation of small arms...
The European Union arms embargo on China is an embargo imposed by the European Union against the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in response to the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. ...
U.S. Army soldier removes fuse from a Russian-made mine to clear a mine field outside of Fallujah, Iraq. ...
External links - SIPRI arms industry reports and database
- The Guardian's arms trade report
- List of participators of the Defence System and Equipment international conference in London, 2003
- FAS's Arms Sales Monitoring Project
- UN Department for Disarmament Affairs
- ControlArms.org
- Amnesty International: Arms Trade Treay
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