U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market

Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals.

The American weapons sales total was an “extraordinary increase” over the $21.4 billion in deals for 2010, the study found, and was the largest single-year sales total in the history of United States arms exports. The previous high was in fiscal year 2009, when American weapons sales overseas totaled nearly $31 billion.

A worldwide economic decline had suppressed arms sales over recent years. But increasing tensions with Iran drove a set of Persian Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — to purchase American weapons at record levels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.html

TEOTWAWKI wrote:Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild..

Lurch wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild..

Oh yeah...was there ever a better motorcycle song ?

I don't think so, the soundtrack from Easyrider is all good music tho...

othershoe1030 wrote:Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals.

The American weapons sales total was an “extraordinary increase” over the $21.4 billion in deals for 2010, the study found, and was the largest single-year sales total in the history of United States arms exports. The previous high was in fiscal year 2009, when American weapons sales overseas totaled nearly $31 billion.

A worldwide economic decline had suppressed arms sales over recent years. But increasing tensions with Iran drove a set of Persian Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — to purchase American weapons at record levels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.html

We need to make sure there's enough weapons to go around to keep the MIC rolling.. It's not nice attacking an unarmed country..

Lurch wrote:I don't think so, the soundtrack from Easyrider is all good music tho...

The Pusher Man was one of the best on the soundtrack.