美國仍是世界最大武器輸出國大綱

The United States continues to hold the title of the world’s top weapons exporter, supplying almost $23 billion worth of weapons to other countries last year – particularly in the Middle East – according to a new report by IHS Jane's.

Its annual Global Defense Trade Report released on Sunday showed the global defense market rose by $6.6 billion in 2015, up to a total of $65 billion.

“The global defense trade market has never seen an increase as large as the one we saw between 2014 and 2015,” said Ben Moores, senior analyst at IHS. “2015 was a record-breaking year.”

French arms sales more than doubled in 2015 from the year before, rising from $8 billion to $18 billion. If that rate continues, the report said, France will overtake Russia as the second largest defense exporter by 2018.

The increase in global arms sales last year was driven largely by increased demand from countries in the Middle East, which dominated the top of the list and received around $21.6 billion worth of equipment deliveries, including $8.8 billion from the U.S.簡氏防務週刊發表的一份新報告說，美國仍然是世界上最大的武器輸出國，去年出口了價值接近230億美元的武器，主要出口地區是中東。

簡氏防務週刊星期日發表全球防務貿易年度報告說，全球防務市場貿易額2015年增長了66億美元，總額達到650億美元。

簡氏防務週刊分析家莫里斯說，全球防務貿易市場的交易額從來不曾有過這樣大的增長幅度，2015年創了記錄。

報告說，法國的武器銷售額2015年增長了一倍多，從80億美元猛增到180億美元。報告說，如果按此速度發展下去，法國2018年將超過俄羅斯，成爲全球第二大武器輸出國。

全球軍火貿易去年增長的主要原因是中東國家的需求增加。中東國家去年購進價值約216億美元的武器裝備，其中88億美元的武器來自美國。