Wikipedia:GLAM/Campaign Against Arms Trade

This is a project page for work Wikimedia projects organised by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).

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 * Add "Category:Arms companies" to pages of major arms suppliers.
 * Add sections to articles about conflict about the arms sales. e.g Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen could have a section on arms suppliers.
 * Update equipment and provenance for militaries such as the Indian military

Category list

 * Aerospace companies of the United Kingdom
 * Defence Companies of the United Kingdom
 * Weapons trade
 * List of United States defense contractors
 * Military industry by country
 * Firearms manufacturers by country

Pages relating to the arms trade

 * List of major arms industry corporations by country
 * Arms industry
 * Military–industrial complex
 * Motivation for the Production of Arms Pursuit of Wealth - Manufacturing. Power - Political will
 * British Arms Production Pre-1945 & Post-1945

List of arms companies

 * BAE Systems
 * Rolls Royce
 * Raytheon
 * Lockheed Martin
 * Boeing
 * Northrop Grumman
 * Thales Group
 * ST Engineering


 * List of companies with "arms industry" identifier with Wikipedia article
 * List of companies with "aerospace manufacturer" identifier with Wikipedia article

List of relevant conflicts

 * Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
 * Syrian Civil War
 * Second Congo War
 * Indonesian occupation of East Timor
 * Iran–Iraq War
 * Kashmir conflict
 * South Sudanese Civil War
 * Breakup of Yugoslavia
 * The Troubles who funded & provided arms. where did they come from. How much was spent

Other relevant articles

 * Companies by arms sales
 * National Gallery

List of Resources
SIPRI Arms Industry Database - – data on the Top 100 arms and military services companies outside China from 2002-2016. Includes data on overall revenues, revenues from arms & military services (arms sales – SIPRI estimates in many cases), profits, employment.

SIPRI Arms Transfers Database - – data on international transfers of major conventional weapons from 1950-2017. Does not cover small arms & light weapons, or most components. Includes both qualitative data on the equipment transferred, and quantitative data on the volume of transfers, overall and between individual countries. The latter uses SIPRI’s bespoke Trend Indicator Value measure, and is not a financial measure. It therefore does not correspond to figures on the financial value of arms transfers from other sources.

The CAAT website! www.caat.org.uk

Arms company annual reports – these exist for any company that is publicly traded, and for some state- owned companies, depending on what the government in question chooses to publish. For publicly traded

companies, these are usually found on the Investors Relations pages. These will usually include detailed financial data, as well as discussions of the companies’ activities, products, and customers. National defence industry associations. These can be useful for identifying a much wider range of companies with involvement in the arms business, through their lists of members. Sometimes they may also have catalogues with brief descriptions of their members’ activities. The European Aeronautics, Space, Defence, and Security Industries association, ASD, has a link to the national industry associations of its members. National annual reports on arms transfers.

These are collected by SIPRI at https://www.sipri.org/databases/national-reports. National reports vary enormously in the amount and type of information they provide. They may provide summary financial information on export licenses, orders, and/or deliveries, as well as details on exports to individual customers, and sometimes the types of equipment exported. A few give details on the companies granted export licenses. EU reports on arms exports (also linked to at the SIPRI site) collate information from all EU member states. Specifically for the UK, CAAT’s UK export license browser presents official UK govt. data in a far more accessible manner. https://www.caat.org.uk/resources/export-licences