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The World's 10 Largest Weapons Exporting Countries
Script:
The world is becoming more militarized. President Donald Trump has requested a ten percent boost in defense spending, China will have nearly doubled its military expenditures by the end of the decade, and — with the impetuous Trump occupying the White House — conflict zones from the Korean Peninsula to Syria seem more likely to descend into open warfare than they did under the vigilant command of President Barack Obama.
In these geopolitical games of chess, let’s review where the pieces on the board — the weapons systems — are coming from. These are the top ten countries that export the most arms according to the authority on this topic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Before we begin, a few important points: the data does not include spending on support services for these increasingly high-tech systems, which is now the dominant aspect of military spending; companies — some state-owned — are the primary providers of these weapons; and we’re using the average of the five most recent years to give the rankings more stability.
Israel’s arms industry is ranked tenth. Its exports surged above $1.2B for 2016, three times what it was just two years earlier. Part of this is increased sales to India, Israel’s biggest customer. Israel’s Aerospace Industries just finalized a deal worth $2B to provide air and missile defense systems.
ישראל היא במקום העשירי 10 בעולם כיצואנית נשק
היא מכרה ב 2016 מעל ל 1.2 מיליארד דולר נשק למדינות רבות
הוהו הייתה המדינה שרכשה הכי הרבה נשק מישראל
אזברביגדן הייתה הרוכשת השניה בגודלה ורכשה 13 אחוזים מכלל הנשק שישראל מכרה ב 2016
ארה"ב רכשה 5% מכלל הנשק שישראל מכרה ב 2016
ב 2017 ישראל סגרה עסקה עם הודו על מכירת נשק של 2 מיליארד דולר
כל החברות שמיצרות נשק בישראל הם חברות בבעלות מדינת ישראל
ישראל מובילה עולמית במכירת טילים מתקדמים
בכל שנה ישראל מוכרת פי או פי 3 נשק
ב 2017 ישראל צפויה להיות המדינה השלישית או השניה בעולם אחרי ארה"ב ורוסיה
וישראל כאמור לא מוכרת למדינות ערב שהם הרוכשות הכי גדולות של נשק .
Ninth is Ukraine. Naval vessels were its primary military export until a contract with the Chinese dried up in 2015. Despite its ongoing conflict with Russia, Ukraine continues to sell it more and more arms. Aside from Thailand, the Indians and Vietnamese are also regular customers.
Italy, the world’s eighth-leading arms exporter, does regular business with the United Arab Emirates. Leonardo S.p.A. — Italy’s leading defense contractor — recently cut a deal to sell the UAE eight of its brand new P180 Avanti II “Hammerhead” Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for $347 million.
Seventh is Spain. It’s defense industry is concentrated heavily around two key markets: aviation and shipbuilding. State-owned Navantia is in the midst of delivering three Hobart-class destroyers to the Royal Australian Navy. The first of the 147.2 meter ships is currently conducting sea trials as it nears completion.
The UK is the world’s sixth-ranked arms manufacturer. It’s largest defense contractor, BAE Systems, is the third-largest in the world. It’s supplied The Royal Saudi Air Force with 72 Eurofighter Typhoons as part of the Al Yamamah deal that guarantees the UK government 600,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian oil a day.
The Germans have slipped from third to fifth in the last five years as Chancellor Merkel’s government has blocked the sale of certain weapons systems to countries with questionable human rights records like Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Brunei. It is instead selling more to allies like South Korea and Greece.
Like the Germans, fourth-ranked France’s arms exports also declined during the last five years. President Francois Hollande came under heavy pressure from his NATO allies to cancel the sale of two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships to the Russians due to the crisis in Ukraine. Those ships instead were sold to Egypt.
China’s third-ranked defense industry is surging, rising from the sixth position just five years ago. The Chinese understand that in geopolitics, controlling the sale of military hardware is often a government’s most valuable bargaining chip. What’s interesting is the Chinese don’t — or can’t — make sales to its global rival, the United States, or its regional rival, India. The only NATO nation China has ever exported arms to is Turkey, but even that stopped in 2013.
Russia is second. Its main customer, India, now buys just half as many Russian made weapons systems as they were buying five years ago and, overall, Russia’s arms sales are down 30% from their peak. After Putin’s actions in eastern Ukraine, the US, NATO, and their allies used a combination of tools, including sanctions, to punish Russia.
Script:
The world is becoming more militarized. President Donald Trump has requested a ten percent boost in defense spending, China will have nearly doubled its military expenditures by the end of the decade, and — with the impetuous Trump occupying the White House — conflict zones from the Korean Peninsula to Syria seem more likely to descend into open warfare than they did under the vigilant command of President Barack Obama.
In these geopolitical games of chess, let’s review where the pieces on the board — the weapons systems — are coming from. These are the top ten countries that export the most arms according to the authority on this topic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Before we begin, a few important points: the data does not include spending on support services for these increasingly high-tech systems, which is now the dominant aspect of military spending; companies — some state-owned — are the primary providers of these weapons; and we’re using the average of the five most recent years to give the rankings more stability.
Israel’s arms industry is ranked tenth. Its exports surged above $1.2B for 2016, three times what it was just two years earlier. Part of this is increased sales to India, Israel’s biggest customer. Israel’s Aerospace Industries just finalized a deal worth $2B to provide air and missile defense systems.
ישראל היא במקום העשירי 10 בעולם כיצואנית נשק
היא מכרה ב 2016 מעל ל 1.2 מיליארד דולר נשק למדינות רבות
הוהו הייתה המדינה שרכשה הכי הרבה נשק מישראל
אזברביגדן הייתה הרוכשת השניה בגודלה ורכשה 13 אחוזים מכלל הנשק שישראל מכרה ב 2016
ארה"ב רכשה 5% מכלל הנשק שישראל מכרה ב 2016
ב 2017 ישראל סגרה עסקה עם הודו על מכירת נשק של 2 מיליארד דולר
כל החברות שמיצרות נשק בישראל הם חברות בבעלות מדינת ישראל
ישראל מובילה עולמית במכירת טילים מתקדמים
בכל שנה ישראל מוכרת פי או פי 3 נשק
ב 2017 ישראל צפויה להיות המדינה השלישית או השניה בעולם אחרי ארה"ב ורוסיה
וישראל כאמור לא מוכרת למדינות ערב שהם הרוכשות הכי גדולות של נשק .
Ninth is Ukraine. Naval vessels were its primary military export until a contract with the Chinese dried up in 2015. Despite its ongoing conflict with Russia, Ukraine continues to sell it more and more arms. Aside from Thailand, the Indians and Vietnamese are also regular customers.
Italy, the world’s eighth-leading arms exporter, does regular business with the United Arab Emirates. Leonardo S.p.A. — Italy’s leading defense contractor — recently cut a deal to sell the UAE eight of its brand new P180 Avanti II “Hammerhead” Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for $347 million.
Seventh is Spain. It’s defense industry is concentrated heavily around two key markets: aviation and shipbuilding. State-owned Navantia is in the midst of delivering three Hobart-class destroyers to the Royal Australian Navy. The first of the 147.2 meter ships is currently conducting sea trials as it nears completion.
The UK is the world’s sixth-ranked arms manufacturer. It’s largest defense contractor, BAE Systems, is the third-largest in the world. It’s supplied The Royal Saudi Air Force with 72 Eurofighter Typhoons as part of the Al Yamamah deal that guarantees the UK government 600,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian oil a day.
The Germans have slipped from third to fifth in the last five years as Chancellor Merkel’s government has blocked the sale of certain weapons systems to countries with questionable human rights records like Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Brunei. It is instead selling more to allies like South Korea and Greece.
Like the Germans, fourth-ranked France’s arms exports also declined during the last five years. President Francois Hollande came under heavy pressure from his NATO allies to cancel the sale of two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships to the Russians due to the crisis in Ukraine. Those ships instead were sold to Egypt.
China’s third-ranked defense industry is surging, rising from the sixth position just five years ago. The Chinese understand that in geopolitics, controlling the sale of military hardware is often a government’s most valuable bargaining chip. What’s interesting is the Chinese don’t — or can’t — make sales to its global rival, the United States, or its regional rival, India. The only NATO nation China has ever exported arms to is Turkey, but even that stopped in 2013.
Russia is second. Its main customer, India, now buys just half as many Russian made weapons systems as they were buying five years ago and, overall, Russia’s arms sales are down 30% from their peak. After Putin’s actions in eastern Ukraine, the US, NATO, and their allies used a combination of tools, including sanctions, to punish Russia.
