arms manufacturer
Military equipment producer
An arms manufacturer is a company or entity that produces weapons and military equipment—firearms, ammunition, missiles, tanks, warplanes, and related materiel.
The term often appears in discussions of defense contracts, weapons exports, and the ethics of the arms trade: The arms manufacturer won a billion-dollar contract with the Pentagon.
Also called a defense contractor or weapons maker.
- defense contractorCompany producing military goods
- defense industryMilitary equipment manufacturing sector
- weaponsTools for fighting
- munitionsMilitary weapons and ammunition
- militaryArmed forces collectively
military industrial complex · gunsmith · arsenal · warheads · missiles · ammunition · Boeing · Raytheon · ordnance · bullets · tanks · rifles · artillery · warfare · exports · gun lobby · blood money · contracts
- industryfactories, automotive, aerospace, logistics, assembly plant
- weapons expertsgunsmith, armorer, ballistics expert, weapons inspector, weaponsmith
- public enterprisespublic utility, public utilities, public services, national bank, national railway
arms manufacturerhumanitarian organization
Group helping those in need
Doctors Without Borders · peace activist · Red Cross · UNICEF · Amnesty International
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