Riyadh has provoked maximum growth in the arms market over the last 10 years – BBC

The global arms market in 2015 reached its maximum for the last 10 years, reports Bloomberg referring to the report of IHS Global Defence Trade Report.

It is noted that the basis of the arms market growth was a sharp increase in purchases from Saudi Arabia. The demand for weapons has also grown in most of the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

According to research by the IHS, the volume of world arms market by 10% higher than the value of 2014 and amounted to $ 65 billion. Saudi Arabia in the past year bought the F-15 fighter jets, Apache helicopters. In addition, the Kingdom of the army replenished drones, precision weapons, as well as for monitoring equipment.

At the end of 2015, Saudi Arabia ranked first in arms import volume in the world. The total import of arms Riyadh increased last year by 50% – to $ 9.3 billion second place in the procurement of weapons in 2015 ranked India.. Third – Australia

In March last year, Russia ranked second arms export

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