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SIPRI Releases Top 100 Defense Company Data

2014/12/16

SIPRI Releases Top 100 Defense Company Data

HELSINKI — Sales of arms and military services by the world’s 100 largest arms-producing companies declined for a third consecutive year to $402 billion in 2013, according to new data on international arms production by the Stockholm-based think tank SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute).

However, the pace of decline slowed to 2 percent in real terms in 2013 compared to 3.9 percent in 2012. According to SIPRI, this is partly attributable to significant increases in arms sales by Russian companies and producers in other emerging suppliers.

SIPRI’s Top 100 Companies’ data reveals that sales by companies headquartered in the United States and Canada continued to show a moderate decline, while sales by Russian-based companies increased by 20 percent in 2013.

Arms sales are defined by SIPRI as sales of defense goods and services to military customers, including sales for domestic procurement and sales for export.

The limits imposed on U.S. spending under the U.S. Budget Control Act in 2011, coupled with the withdrawal of military forces from Afghanistan and Iraq, has resulted in a gradual decline in U.S. arms companies' sales, according to SIPRI data.

The downward trend in sales continued in 2013 producing a decrease of 4.5 percent in the total estimated arms sales of US companies ranked in the SIPRI Top 100, compared with sales recorded in 2012. The number of U.S. producers in the Top 100 has also fallen from 42 companies in 2011 to 38 in 2013.

“This is a consequence of U.S. companies divesting portfolio activities facing substantial decreases, specifically those relying on demand for equipment and services related to major operations overseas,” said Dr. Aude Fleurant, director of SIPRI’s Arms and Military Expenditure Program.

While global arms sales from emerging countries, including Brazil, India, South Korea, Singapore and Turkey remains at modest levels on a global scale, the sales generated by certain companies has been significant. Sales by South Korea’s Korean Aerospace Industries rose by 31 percent in 2013, while Brazil’s Embraer and Turkey’s Aselsan both increased their sales.

The arms sales picture was mixed in Western Europe. Although France’s defense industry increased sales, British companies experienced stagnant sales in 2013, while arms producers in Spain and Italy saw declines in their domestic and export sales.

At around 118 percent, Russia’s Tactical Missiles Corporation saw the largest increase in sales for any international defense sector company in 2013. Similarly, Russia’s Almaz-Antey produced a 34 percent increase in its sales while United Aircraft Corporation recorded a 20 percent jump in its sales.

Almaz-Antey’s arms sales in 2013 ranks the company as the world’s 12th (excluding China) biggest arms producer, elevating the Russian company’s position closer to the SIPRI Top 10 producers’ list, a group that historically has been exclusively the domain of arms producers from the U.S. and Western Europe since the end of the Cold War.

The increases in Russian companies’ arms sales in 2012, and again in 2013, are to a large degree credited to uninterrupted investments by the Russian government in military procurement since 2000, said Siemon Wezeman, Senior Researcher with SIPRI’s Arms and Military Expenditure Program.

“These investments are explicitly intended to modernize national production capabilities and weapons in order to bring them on par with major U.S. and Western European arms producers’ capabilities and technologies,” Wezeman said.

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