arms manufacturing
Making military equipment
Arms manufacturing is the production of weapons and military equipment—firearms, ammunition, missiles, tanks, warships, and aircraft designed for combat.
The industry ranges from small workshops making rifles to multinational corporations building fighter jets.
The region's economy depends heavily on arms manufacturing.
Countries regulate and often subsidize arms manufacturing for national security reasons.
- firearmsWeapons using explosive propulsion
- forgingShaping heated metal; faking documents
- defense contractorsMilitary weapons manufacturers
- arms embargoesBans on weapon exports
- machiningSubtractive metalworking process
military industrial complex · missiles · artillery · arms dealers · black market guns · export controls · 3D printing · proxy wars · automation · arms race · engineers · small arms · bullet casings · prototyping · bombs · assembly lines · corporate accountability · drones
- Russian economycrude oil, gas, petroleum, arms, vodka
- war productionwar production, wartime production, arms production, defense plants, military equipment
- heavy industrysteel mills, steel production, steel industry, steelmaking, smelters
- Weaponryrifles, shotguns, grenades, missiles, bombs
- Udmurtia
arms manufacturingdisarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
demilitarization · peacebuilding · conflict resolution · arms control · nonproliferation
manufacturing, arming, armament, armaments, armory, armories, armorer, armature, armies