which country is the worlds number one arms supplier?

Question

i allways wanted to know this

Answer 1

its russia, it;s surpassed the u.s in weapons sales. the russian weapons are the best in the world.

Answer 2

The worlds top 5 arms suppliers are
US
Russia
UK
France
China

The top spot rotates but none of the ever fall out of the top five. Although Germany is pushing hard

Coincidentally those 5 all happen to be the prermanent members of the UN Security Council

Answer 3

It is the United States. It supplies up to 60% of the worlds arms and amunitions. Russia used to be tailing second but have sunk considerably since the end of cold war. Ironically majority of the American arms and arms technology are in the hands of its former allies now turned enemies due to bad pilicy and political naivity. The only few friendly ones are Israel, UK and japan. Countries like Iraq, Egypt etc have become or becoming enemies of US. They are some few ones who are joning the foes of American arms recruitment camp. The likes of Nepal, Malta, etc are trading their lucks out. Time shall tell.

Answer 4

Mike t is half right but most of those AK47s were actually sold on
the black market.so that does not count as a country.they were sold after the cold war by Russian generals to illegal arms dealers.there are enough of these AK47 to arm every man women and child on the planet twice(fact)also these guns
were made years ago.most of the new weapons are from
USA,GB,china,a lot of anti personnel mines are from the
Swiss.in past wars it was about communism and democracy.
IE( Vietnam) china and Russia supplied the NVA and the USA
supplied the south

Answer 5

The US is a huge arms dealer. Maybe placed behind Russia. But The US has a bad track record for selling arms that end up being used on their own soldiers. Iran (being sent into Iraq) and Afghanistan. No matter what a politician says how valuable a soldier is, they still manage to sell weapons to questionable sources.

Answer 6

It dipends from the criterium, value or number..
USA(1) exported from 1996 to 2003 arms for a value of 151,867 millions of current dollars, while UK(2) exported for 43,000, France(3) for 30,200 , Russia(4) for 26,200, Germany(5) for 10,800, Italy(10) for 2,700.
But if you consider small arms in 2001 USA is the first exporting 741.4 milion US$, the second is Italy exporting 298.7 milion US$,(Germany 156.7 MilionUS$, Japan 70.3 MilionUS$, Canada 53.6 MilionUS$, UK 44.8 MilionUS$ ) while Russia is 7th exporting 42.2 MilionUS$.
All these statistics are for value, not for number, but for example if USA sells 100 rifles for 9000$ and Russia sells 150 rifles for 8000$ which is the greater rifles supplier??
I can't find statistics for number of weapons exported, so keep looking for these.

Answer 7

SUPPLIER......... the CIS (Commonwealth Independent States) by far..... followed closely by the USA

Commonwealth Independent States being the old Eastern Block country's. their T55 and T72 main battle tanks are the most widely used in the world, and their BMP 1 and 2's are also the most widely used APC. if you want to know more about the CIS and their equipment and why they sell so much, and why people bye it so often, then just drop me an E-mail (through this sight) and i'll tell you anything you need to know, i could talk about this subject / CIS for days.... but every one else would be asleep......

Answer 8

Usa,china,russia

Answer 9

The AK 47 Kalashnikov is the most numerous and widely spread weapon on the planet and is supplied by the nations of the old Soviet empire. It has killed many more people that nuclear weapons. Lets get real here, rather than have the loony left trot out their usual anti-US mantras

Answer 10

USA
to name a few countrys it has supplied
Iraq
Iran
Israil
South Korea
all of western europe!
most of central Africa and even searia leone!
and rebel forces/terreorists all over the world including
The IRA, CLA, Taliban, most of the early Cuban movenents
and South American ones to.
the list goes on.....

Answer 11

America, didn't they arm the Taliban, Bin Ladan's mob and the Vietnamese before the conflict