Russia Ranked 2nd Biggest Global Arms Exporter – Arms Think Tank

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- Russia became the world’s second largest arms exporter in 2011 after the United States, the head of the Moscow-based arms think tank Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT), Igor Korotchenko said on Friday.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The CAWAT ranking revealed that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place> occupied the second position for world arms sales in 2011 with $11.29 billion in revenues, which accounts for 16.1 percent of all international arms supplies, Korotchenko said. “The forecast for 2012 is $11.3 billion or 17.3 percent of global arms sales.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Unitied States, however, dominates world arms exports, with over 40 percent of trade globally, or $28.76 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Korotchenko also said that <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> had scored high records on arms exports despite the fact that it had lost the Iranian market because of the arms embargos imposed on <st1:city w:st="on">Tehran</st1:city> by <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>. <st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city> also supported arms sanctions against <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Libya</st1:country-region></st1:place>, suspending all contracts for the supply of military hardware to the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The top ten biggest arms suppliers include <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place>, according to the CAWAT ranking.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Russia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> exports weaponry to over 100 countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Its main arms customers are <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Algeria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region> also emerged as a key importer after it signed a deal to buy submarines, aircraft and other military hardware from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> late last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div></div>

Russia Ranked 2nd Biggest Global Arms Exporter – Arms Think Tank

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