The sales of weapons and military equipment by the leading companies in the world have fallen in the past year, according to a survey for the third time in a row. In 2013 were of the 100 most important armories worldwide sales worth a total of 402 billion dollars (good EUR 324 billion) has been made, the Peace Research Institute, SIPRI announced in Stockholm, Sweden. This, therefore, was two percent less than last year – after a decline of 3.9 percent in 2011.
While further into the key producer countries USA and Canada. slight declines were recorded, sales from Russia have risen year on year by 20 percent, said SIPRI.
In Western Europe, the researchers reported an increase for France, a stagnation for the UK and declines for Italy and Spain. Away from North America and Western Europe, sales since 2005 and had therefore rose last a share of the total volume of 15.5 percent. However, SIPRI are for China no reliable data.
Russia invested in weapons
In Russia, the company increased its sales Tactical Missiles Corporation, according to SIPRI last year by 118 percent to more than 2.2 billion dollars. It therefore increased the list of rank 74 to No. 46 Ranked twelve Almaz-Antey the group ended up with just over eight billion dollars, an increase of 34 per cent, in 15th place with good $ 5.5 billion and 20 percent growth the company United Aircraft Corporation.
SIPRI said the “remarkable growth” were a result sustained government investment since the turn of the millennium. At this time Vladimir Putin came to be president. “These investments are stated in this modernizing the national production skills and weapons, to bring them on par with the skills and technologies of the major arms producers in the US and Western Europe,” the SIPRI expert Siemon Wezeman said the numbers. Among the top 100 of the world’s leading weapons manufacturers are now ten Russian producers.
Rheinmetall is the largest German gunsmiths
The list of the top 100 retailers was further cited according to SIPRI of US companies Lockheed Martin and Boeing with nearly 35.5 or $ 30.7 billion. In third place, the British company BAE Systems was followed with good $ 26.8 billion.
On the seventh European company EADS was good with 15.7 billion dollars, the German company Rheinmetall took just under $ 2.9 billion ranks 32nd in the squares 57, 61 and 72 calls SIPRI, the German company Thyssen Krupp, Diehl and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann.
supplier of weapons and military equipment from the southern regions of the world were, according to the Institute last year for 3.6 percent of sales. These include companies from Brazil, India, Singapore, South Korea and Turkey. Some of the companies but could be observed “impressive” growth a. For example, the sales of the South Korean company Korea Aerospace Industries have risen by 31 percent. The Group, with a sales volume of $ 1.4 billion square 60 by rank 69 in 2012.
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