Arms trade
Last week Australia announced plans to buy 20 of an American company’s truck-mounted artillery rocket launchers over the next three years, as well as Norweigian-made missiles. The plans are just the tip of a global trade in weapons.
Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute informed this interactive that shows that hundreds of these transfers happen each year, ranging from relatively small transfers of vehicles or guns, through to massive deals like Australia’s, worth billions of dollars.
