“The USA has further solidified its position as the world’s leading arms supplier,” said the director of the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Program.
The United States has significantly increased its domination of global weapons sales over the past few years, dramatically expanding its lead over Russia, its closest competitor.
"[It] exported arms to at least 98 countries in the past five years; these deliveries often included advanced weapons such as combat aircraft, short-range cruise and ballistic missiles, and large numbers of guided bombs,” Fleurant continued. “Weapons from the USA, the United Kingdom and France are in high demand in the Gulf region, where conflicts and tensions are rife,” Pieter D. Wezeman, a senior researcher with the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Program, said in the report. “Russia, France and Germany dramatically increased their arms sales to Egypt in the past five years.”
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