{"id":287435,"date":"2016-12-27T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-was-no-1-in-arms-sales-in-2015-selling-40-billion\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T17:15:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:15:56","slug":"us-was-no-1-in-arms-sales-in-2015-selling-40-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-was-no-1-in-arms-sales-in-2015-selling-40-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"US was No. 1 in arms sales in 2015, selling $40 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States sold over $40 billion worth of weapons last year, maintaining its position as the world\u2019s dominant arms supplier, according to a new congressional study.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US arms sales increased by around $4 billion in 2015 and represented about half of all weapons agreements globally, according to figures released by the Congressional Research Service, a public policy research arm of the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>France was far behind in second place at $15 billion in arms sales. Russia came in third with $11 billion. Next were China, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Britain and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The annual report, which was delivered to US lawmakers last week, is considered the most comprehensive assessment of global arms sales available in an unclassified form.<\/p>\n<p>The total size of the global arms trade was worth about $80 billion in 2015, which was $9 billion less than in 2014, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Sales dropped \u201cdue, in part, to the weakened state of the global economy,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/27\/503724\/US-arms-sales-global\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States sold over $40 billion worth of weapons last year, maintaining its position as the world\u2019s dominant arms supplier, according to a new congressional study. US arms sales increased by around $4 billion in 2015 and represented about half of all weapons agreements globally, according to figures released by the Congressional Research Service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}