World's Top Arms Exporters Visualized
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World's Top Arms Exporters Visualized
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#2Germany's largest importer is Israel. What an interesting world.
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#3Interesting that Ukraine has higher arms export numbers than Sweden, Netherlands and Spain. I never knew Ukraine was an arms exporter at all.
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#4Interesting that Ukraine has higher arms export numbers than Sweden, Netherlands and Spain. I never knew Ukraine was an arms exporter at all.
What's interesting is that a lot Ukrainian arms exports are to Russia with which it is now at war.
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#6Visualizations like this are always awesome, but it would also be interesting to see the inverse of this chart.
Where do countries import arms from?
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#7Visualizations like this are always awesome, but it would also be interesting to see the inverse of this chart. Where do countries import arms from?
When you hover over a chord you can see both exports and imports for each pair of countries. The arms imports visualization is here: http://insightfulinteraction.com/armsimport.html
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#8Visualizations like this are always awesome, but it would also be interesting to see the inverse of this chart. Where do countries import arms from?
Hovering over a country shows where they import arms from.
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#9Interesting that Ukraine has higher arms export numbers than Sweden, Netherlands and Spain. I never knew Ukraine was an arms exporter at all.
The USSR based a LOT of stuff in the Ukraine, both in terms of operational units, and supporting industry. Most of which was inherited by Ukraine when the USSR was dissolved. While many of the operational units were also dissolved, or traded back to Russia (for example, some Tu-160 strategic bombers), arms export is a pretty sweet way (relatively) for a new country to get some nice cashflow. Wiki says that Ukraine received about 30% of the USSR's arms industry... which is a lot.
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#10Germany's largest importer is Israel. What an interesting world.
...Protecting Israel's security is "part of my country's raison d'être," Merkel said in a March 2008 speech to the Israeli Knesset. "For me as German chancellor," she continued, "Israel's security will never be open to negotiation."
Partly as a result, Israel gets nuclear-capable submarines from the Germans, as well as any other weapons it wants. This time the Israelis wanted more modern launchers for rocket-propelled grenades and anti-armor weapons, made by Dynamit Nobel Defence near the western German town of Siegen.[0]
[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-weapons-e...