The armaments industry developed very fast with the beginning of the industrialization in Western Europe in 19. Century. Beside the production of hand-held weapons ever more won the production of major items of equipment for the infantry at meaning.

The list of an imperial navy before the First World War secured orders and development of its capacities for the rising companies in Germany. 1898 decided Reichstag a new fleet law, which specified the further development. After the First World War close limits were set to the armaments industry of Germany in the Versailler contract, since weapon production was internationally supervised and the weapon export was completely forbidden. The national socialism gave an enormous growth to the armaments industry with its armament and war politics. After the Second World War the armaments industry was dissolved 1945 in the context of the Demilitarisierung Germany. In the FRG the armaments industry experiences a new bloom in the framework of west integration and rearmament in the center of the 1950er years.

Arms exerted and take again and again influence on the political happening, in order to improve the conditions for it trades. It came also to illegal bribe payments of arms lobbyists to political officials as in the repairing scandal or with the machinations of the weapon dealer Karl Heinz writer with the undersecretary of state Ludwig Holger of stake and other politicians.

In the numbers of the peace movement, which becomes peace research in addition, the trade unions since the 1980er years of concepts of arms conversion developed, how the transition can be arranged from more military to civilian production.

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At weapon industries it acts around companies for the production of munition such as warship shipyards, tank panzerschmieden and air and space industries.

One differentiates between three main categories:

1. Companies for the production of heavy equipment:

   Tanks, artillery, warships and other heavy munition manufactures.

2. Companies for the production of light equipment:

   Rifles, pistols, field equipment and other light weapons and infantry equipment manufactures.

3. Companies for the production of ABC weapons

   Manufactures atomic, biological and chemical weapons.

Many states of the world possess at present (still) no own weapon industry and are so dependent on the so-called weapon import. The largest weapon suppliers of the world are at present, followed all in front the USA (their industry experienced by the Middle East policy a new boom) of Great Britain, Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany (international institutes for Strategic Studies: The Military balance 2004-5). All these countries possess highly developed and stand in the mutual competition around the newest and most effective weapon systems.

For many of the poor and developing countries one of the possibilities insists of making itself independent of arms imported goods in concentrating on the third category the ABC weapons. For developing chemical and biological agents no all too large efforts are necessary and compared with conventional weapon systems are ABC weapons not very cost-intensively.

The weapon industry constantly developed itself in the course of the industrialization, at the beginning stood individual enterprises further such as cannon foundries or from this large and very versatile large-scale enterprises developed like for example the Rhine metal, Boeing and other in the course of the years.

Armament exports today and 1990 in US$

The USA: $18.5mrd, $5.4mrd

Russia: $4.6mrd, $6.2mrd

France: $4.4mrd, $2.1mrd

Great Britain: $1.9mrd, $985mil

Germany: $900mil, $1.1mrd

Canada: $900mil, $543mil

China: $700mil, $125mil

Israel: $500mil, $283mil

Traditional are:

Germany

• EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and space company)
  • Airbus - airplanes e.g. Airbus A400M
  • Eurocopter - helicopter tiger
  • Military aircraft - Eurofighter, Mako
• Diehl - ammunition, missile, enhancement of combat capabilities, training systems
  • Bodensee instrument technique - guided missile, torpedo
• Heckler & cook - pistols, submachine guns and rifles
• Krauss Maffei way man - wheel and tracked vehicles
• - frigates and corvettes
• Rhine metal AG - Ammunition, tank and military vehicles
  • Mouse he works - automatic cannons
  • Oerlikon
• Schmeisser Suhl GmbH
• ThyssenKrupp AG
  • HDW - Warships
  • North Sea works - submarines
  • Blohm & Voss - warships
  • Kockums
  • Healing NIC Shipyards
• Carl Walther GmbH

Dynamite Nobel Defence GmbH

See also:

• Would list German navy yards
• Militarization of the science

Belgium

• Fabrique national one

Great Britain

• BAE of system - warships, submarines, tank, airplanes, rockets, electronics, satellite, etc.
  • Alvis (2004 taken over by BAE) - armored vehicles, tank e.g. Challenger 2
  • United Defense - tanks
• Cobham - airplanes, helicopter, electronics
• GKN - Armored vehicles, helicopters
• Griffon Hovercraft - military air cushion vehicles
• Hunting Defence - rockets, electronics, satellite
• QinetiQ - electronics, warships e.g. check valve triton
• Smith Industries - electronics
• Swan Hunter - warships
• Roll Royce - armored vehicles, engines, engines
• Vosper Thornycroft - warships
• Westland aircraft - helicopters e.g. Lynx and Sea King
• Enfield - rifles and pistols e.g. SA 80

Italy

• Beretta - pistols and rifles
• Finmeccanica
  • Oto Melara - ship cannons and tanks
  • Alenia - military air freighters
  • Aermacchi - a military training flight witness
• Fincantieri

Poland

• Bumar Ltd. - Tanks

Russia

• MiG - airplanes
• Mil - helicopters
• Sukhoi - fighter planes
• Yakovlev - a training flight witness
• Almaz Antei
• IRKUT - Airplanes, avionics
• Admiral-thrown
• Ufa MPO

The USA

• Boeing - combat aircraft and bomber e.g. Boeing B-52, B-2 Spirit
• Lockheed Martin - fighter plane, warships
• Colt Manufacturing - infantry weapons e.g. M16A2
• Raytheon
• Northrop Grumman - AEW airplanes, drones, bombers
• General Dynamics
  • MOWAG - Tank
  • Steyr Daimler Puch special vehicle - tank, turrets
  • Electric Boat corporation - submarines
  • Bath Iron Works - warships
• Honeywell
• Halliburton
• United Technologies
  • Sikorsky aircraft corporation - helicopters
• General Electric
• Rockwell Collins
• Textron
• Goodrich
• L-3 Communications
• General Atomics - drones

Switzerland

• Swiss industrial company (rifles, pistols)
• Pilatus
• RUAG

Czech republic

• Zbrojovka (hand-held weapons)

Austria

• Schiebel - mine detectors, helicopter drones
• Glock - pistols
• Steyr Mannlicher - rifles

France

• DCN - Warships
• Thales Group - warships
• SAFRAN - jet engines for fighter planes
• Dassault aviation - fighter planes
• GIAT Industries

Japan

• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
• Kawasaki Heavy Industries
• Mitsubishi Electrics
• NEC
• Toshiba
• Komatsu

Sweden

• Saab - fighter plane, AEW airplanes
• Ericsson - wheel acres

Spain

• IZAR - Warships
• Indra Sistmas

Israel

• Israel Aircraf Industries
• Elbit of system
• Israel Military Industries

Norway

• Kongsberg - rockets

Finland

• Patria - tanks

Brazil

• Embraer - reconnaissance planes, a training flight witness (auche light earth fighters)

Africa

See: Armaments industry in Africa

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