The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world excluding China, 2011

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The SIPRI Top 100 lists the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (excluding Chinese companies)[a], ranked by their arms sales in 2011. The list is based on the comprehensive SIPRI Arms Industry Database, which contains financial and employment data on the world’s major arms-producing and military services companies.

The SIPRI Top 100 for 2011 is the 24th edition of the SIPRI Top 100—earlier versions are available here. For more on the coverage and methodology of the SIPRI Top 100 see the notes below and read the sources and methods.

Arms and military services sales (‘arms sales’) are defined by SIPRI as sales of military goods and services to military customers, including sales for both domestic procurement and export.Military goods and services are those that are designed specifically for military purposes and include the technologies related to these goods and services. Military goods are military-specific equipment and do not include general-purpose goods, such as oil, electricity, office computers, uniforms and boots. Military services are also military-specific. They include technical services, such as information technology, maintenance, repair and overhaul, and operational support; services related to the operation of the armed forces, such as intelligence, training, logistics and facilities management; and armed security in conflict zones. They do not include the peacetime provision of purely civilian services—such as health care, cleaning, catering and transportation—but supply services to operationally deployed forces are included.

Figures for arms sales, total sales and total profit are in millions of US dollars.

Rank[b]		Company[c]	Country	Sector	Arms sales (US$ m.)		Total sales, 2011 (US$ m.)	Arms sales as share of total sales, 2011 (%)	Total profit, 2011 (US$ m.)	Total employ- ment, 2011
2011	2010	Company[c]	Country	Sector	2011	2010	Total sales, 2011 (US$ m.)	Arms sales as share of total sales, 2011 (%)	Total profit, 2011 (US$ m.)	Total employ- ment, 2011
1	1	Lockheed Martin		Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Space	36 270	35 730	46 499	78	2 655	123 000
2	3	Boeing		Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Space	31 830	31 360	68 735	46	4 018	171 700
3	2	BAE Systems		Aircraft, Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Missiles,Small arms/ammunition, Ships	29 150	32 880	30 689	95	2 349	93 500
4	5	General Dynamics		Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition, Ships	23 760	23 940	32 677	73	2 526	95 100
5	6	Raytheon		Electronics, Missiles	22 470	22 980	24 857	90	1 896	71 000
6	4	Northrop Grumman		Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Ships, Space	21 390	28 150	26 412	81	2 118	72 500
7	7	EADS		Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Space	16 390	16 360	68 295	24	1 442	133 120
8	8	Finmeccanica		Aircraft, Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Missiles, Small arms/ammunition	14 560	14 410	24 074	60	-3 206	70 470
S	S	BAE Systems Inc. (BAE Systems, UK)		Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition	13 560	17 900	14 417	94	5 178	37 300
9	9	L-3 Communications		Electronics	12 520	13 070	15 169	83	956	61 000
10	10	United Technologies		Aircraft, Electronics, Engines	11 640	11 410	58 190	20	5 347	199 900
11	11	Thales		Electronics, Military vehicles, Missiles, Small arms/ammunition	9 480	9 950	18 111	52	787	68 330
12	12	SAIC		Components (Military vehicles), Services	7 940	8 230	10 587	75	56	41 100
13	–	Huntington Ingalls Industries		Ships	6 380	–	6 575	97	–94	38 000
14	15	Honeywell		Electronics	5 280	5 400	36 529	14	2 067	132 000
15	16	Safran		Electronics	5 240	4 800	16 315	32	895	59 800
S	S	Sikorsky (United Technologies)		Aircraft	4 970	4 530	7 655	65	840	17 780
16	14	Computer Sciences Corp.		Services	4 860	5 940	15 877	31	–4 225	98 000
17	17	Rolls-Royce		Engines	4 670	4 330	18 068	26	1 854	40 400
18	21	United Aircraft Corp.[d]		Aircraft	4 440	3 440	5 502	80	404	97 500
19	13	Oshkosh Truck		Military vehicles	4 370	7 080	7 585	58	273	13 100
S	S	MBDA (BAE Systems, UK/EADS, trans-European/Finmeccanica, Italy)		Missiles	4 170	3 710	4 170	100	227	9 850
20	18	General Electric		Engines	4 100	4 300	147 300	3	14 151	301 000
21	19	ITT Exelis[e]		Electronics	4 020	4 000	5 839	69	326	20 500
S	S	CASA (EADS, trans-European)		Aircraft	3 940	. .	4 332	91	132	6 980
S	S	Pratt & Whitney (United Technologies)		Engines	3 700	4 080	13 430	28	1 999	35 870
22	20	Almaz-Antei[d]		Missiles	3 690	3 950	4 337	85	32	93 280
23	25	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries [g]		Aircraft, Military vehicles, Missiles, Ships	3 620	2 960	35 347	10	307	68 890
24	22	DCNS		Ships	3 610	3 320	3 614	100	249	12 830
S	S	Eurocopter Group (EADS, trans-European)		Aircraft	3 540	2 940	7 528	47	359	20 800
S	S	AgustaWestland (Finmeccanica)		Aircraft	3 440	2 920	5 443	63	320	13 300
25	29	Saab		Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles	3 080	2 780	3 619	85	341	13 070
26	32	Rheinmetall		Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition	2 980	2 660	6 192	48	313	21 520
27	31	Textron		Aircraft, Electronics, Engines, Military vehicles	2 930	2 740	11 275	26	242	32 000
28	26	Hewlett-Packard		Services	2 930	2 890	127 245	2	7 074	349 600
29	36	CACI International		Services	2 860	2 450	3 578	80	144	13 700
30	30	Babcock International Group		Ships	2 850	2 770	4 919	58	277	25 140
31	28	Rockwell Collins		Electronics	2 810	2 860	4 806	59	634	20 500
32	34	ManTech International Corp.		Services	2 770	2 500	2 870	97	133	9 300
33	33	Hindustan Aeronautics		Aircraft, Missiles	2 740	2 590	3 043	90	713	32 660
34	35	Elbit Systems		Electronics	2 680	2 480	2 818	95	25	12 550
35	24	URS Corp.		Electronics	2 670	3 030	9 545	28	–466	46 000
36	42	Harris		Electronics	2 670	2 130	5 925	45	597	16 900
37	27	Alliant Techsystems		Small arms/ammunition	2 670	2 870	4 613	58	263	17 000
38	68	Kawasaki Heavy Industries[g]		Aircraft, Engines, Missiles, Ships	2 630	1 020	16 337	16	292	33 270
S	S	Sukhoi (United Aircraft Corp.)[d]		Aircraft	2 630	1 360	2 825	93	. .	26 000
39	40	DynCorp International (Cerberus Capital)		Services	2 600	2 210	3 721	70	–58	29 000
40	47	Vertolety Rossii (OPK Oboronoprom)[d]		Aircraft	2 560	1 910	3 537	72	238	40 000
41	37	Israel Aerospace Industries		Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles	2 500	2 400	3 440	73	83	17 000
42	39	Goodrich		Components (Aircraft)	2 420	2 230	8 075	30	810	28 000
S	S	EADS Astrium (EADS, trans-European)		Space	2 350	2 450	6 901	34	366	16 600
43	41	CEA		Other	2 300	2 200	5 800	40	46	15 770
S	S	MBDA France (MBDA, trans-European)		Missiles	2 300	2 190	2 295	100	229	4 300
44	60	Fluor[j]		Components (Other)	2 260	1 300	2 381	95	594	43 090
45	43	Serco		Other	2 230	2 130	7 444	30	381	100 000
46	23	KBR[f]		Services	2 180	3 310	9 261	24	480	27 000
47	38	Cobham		Components (Aircraft, Electronics)	2 160	2 260	2 970	73	376	9 330
48	45	Indian Ordnance Factories		Artillery, Small arms/ammunition	2 120	1 960	2 655	80	. .	98 910
49	57	ThyssenKrupp		Ships	2 080	1 340	68 244	3	–2 479	180 050
S	S	Alenia Aeronautica (Finmeccanica)		Aircraft	2 050	1 920	3 712	55	–1 256	11 990
50	49	Navistar		Military vehicles	2 000	1 800	13 958	14	1 778	20 800
51	50	Rafael		Aircraft, Missiles, Small arms/ammunition, Other	1 940	1 780	1 979	98	111	6 500
52	51	ST Engineering (Temasek)		Aircraft, Electronics, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition, Ships	1 900	1 750	4 762	40	419	22 380
S	S	BAE Systems Australia (BAE Systems, UK)		Aircraft, Ships	1 860	1 380	1 857	100	. .	6 000
53	53	Samsung Techwin		Artillery, Electronics, Engines, Military vehicles	1 860	1 590	2 809	66	209	6 770
54	54	Krauss-Maffei Wegmann[i]		Military vehicles	1 740	1 590	1 807	96	. .	. .
55	44	Navantia		Ships	1 650	2 010	1 737	95	–60	5 530
56	46	QinetiQ		Services	1 580	1 920	2 355	67	413	10 180
57	64	Mitsubishi Electric[g]		Electronics, Missiles	1 440	1 160	45 603	3	1 404	117 310
58	70	NEC[g]		Electronics	1 440	980	38 052	4	–1 382	109 100
59	55	Kongsberg Gruppen		Electronics, Missiles, Small arms/ammunition	1 440	1 500	2 699	53	255	6 680
60	63	Diehl		Missiles, Small arms/ammunition	1 380	1 210	4 072	34	71	13 970
61	62	United Engine Corp.[d]		Engines	1 330	1 250	2 221	60	4	. .
62	61	Groupe Dassault		Aircraft	1 240	1 270	4 594	27	392	11 470
63	73	Fincantieri		Ships	1 220	940	3 311	37	14	9 990
64	91	Uralvagonzavod[d]		Military vehicles	1 200	730	3 000	40	454	. .
65	48	AM General[h]		Military vehicles	1 130	1 900	. .	. .	. .	2 000
66	56	Nexter		Artillery, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition	1 120	1 430	1 183	95	158	2 700
S	S	Thales Air Defence (Thales, France)		Missiles	1 120	. .	1 117	100	37	. .
67	65	Triumph Group		Aircraft	1 090	1 080	3 408	32	281	12 600
68	75	Chemring Group		Small arms/ammunition	1 080	890	1 194	90	201	4 680
S	S	Irkut Corp. (United Aircraft Corp.)[d]		Aircraft	1 070	1 330	1 248	86	. .	12 000
69	–	Radiotechnicheskie i Informatsionnie[d]		Electronics	1 050	. .	2 093	50	–18	. .
70	78	RUAG		Aircraft, Artillery, Engines, Small arms/ammunition	1 040	830	2 001	52	109	7 740
71	72	Moog		Components (Electronics, Missiles)	1 000	960	2 331	43	136	10 320
72	66	GKN		Components (Aircraft)	970	1 050	9 206	11	562	44 000
73	99	AAR Corp.		Other	940	650	1 776	53	70	6 100
74	83	Meggitt		Other	940	780	2 331	40	518	19 540
75	77	CAE		Electronics	900	840	1 840	49	184	8 000
S	S	Selex Galileo (Finmeccanica)		Components (Electronics, Other)	900	750	1 674	54	–281	7 170
76	90	Korea Aerospace Industries		Aircraft	890	740	1 160	77	68	3 000
77	71	Bharat Electronics		Electronics	890	970	1 222	73	178	10 790
78	82	Cubic Corp.		Components (Electronics), Services	870	810	1 285	68	85	7 800
79	74	SRA International		Electronics	870	890	1 705	51	66	6 100
80	81	Precision Castparts Corp.		Components (Aircraft)	870	810	7 215	12	1 226	21 500
81	95	Embraer		Aircraft	860	670	5 893	15	93	17 270
82	88	Aselsan		Electronics	850	760	897	94	96	4 390
S	S	Selex Galileo (Finmeccanica)		Electronics	840	820	972	87	12	2 690
83	–	Doosan Group		Components (Other)	830	610	23 723	4	271	38 000
84	86	Curtiss-Wright Corp.		Components (Aircraft, Ships)	820	780	2 054	40	130	8 900
85	79	LIG Nex1		Electronics	820	810	817	100	23	26 480
86	67	Jacobs Engineering Group[k]		Services	800	1 020	10 382	8	331	45 700
87	97	Patria		Aircraft, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition	770	660	859	90	56	3 430
S	S	Raytheon Australia (Raytheon, USA)		Components (Aircraft), Services	770	640	785	99	. .	1 450
88	84	Hawker Beechcraft		Aircraft	770	780	2 435	32	–633	6 000
89	89	Mitre[l]		Other	770	740	1 389	55	. .	7 890
90	76	Ultra Electronics		Electronics	760	880	1 172	65	184	4 470
S	S	MBDA Italia (MBDA, trans-European)		Missiles	750	640	746	100	–8	1 250
91	100	GenCorp		Electronics, Engines	740	650	918	81	3	3 270
92	87	Alion Science and Technology		Other	730	770	787	92	–44	2 990
93	–	Avio (Cinven)		Engines	730	640	2 818	26	16	5 120
S	S	Thales Nederland (Thales, France)		Electronics	720	1 060	723	100	42	. .
94	85	Indra		Electronics	710	780	3 737	19	252	21 080
95	–	Mission Essential Personnel		Services	700	540	726	96	. .	8 000
96	–	Aerospace Corp.		Services	700	640	939	74	. .	4 600
S	S	Thales Australia (Thales, France)		Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Missiles, Small arms/ammunition, Ships	690	680	759	91	. .	3 000
97	92	Esterline Technologies		Components (Aircraft, Ships)	690	690	1 718	40	133	12 000
98	–	Fujitsu[g]		Electronics	660	490	55 980	1	535	173 160
99	–	ASC		Ships	660	470	718	92	11	2 000
100	–	Flir systems		Electronics	660	440	1 544	43	222	3 080

[a] Although several Chinese arms-producing enterprises are large enough to rank among the SIPRI Top 100, it has not been possible to include them because of lack of comparable and su"ciently accurate data. In addition, there are companies in other countries such as Kazakhstan and Ukraine, that also could be large enough to appear in the SIPRI Top 100 list if data were available, but this is less certain.

[b] Companies are ranked according to the value of their arms sales in 2011. An S denotes a subsidiary company. A dash (–) indicates that the company did not rank among the SIPRI Top 100 for 2010. Company names and structures are listed as they were on 31 Dec. 2011. Information about subsequent changes is provided in these notes. The 2010 ranks may differ from those published in SIPRI Yearbook 2012 owing to continual revision of data, most often because of changes reported by the company itself and sometimes because of improved estimations. Major revisions are explained in these notes.

[c] For subsidiaries and operational companies owned by a holding or investment company, the name of the parent company is given in parentheses along with its country, where it differs.

[d] This is the 10th year in which Russian companies have been covered by the SIPRI Top 100. There may be other Russian companies that should be in the list but for which insufficient data is available. Vertolety Rossii has operated as a subsidiary of OPK Oboronprom since 2005. However, since comparable financial data for Oboronprom for 2011 are not currently available, Vertolety Rossii is reported here as an independent company. For more detail on Russian arms industry consolidation see Jackson, S. T., ‘Arms production’, SIPRI Yearbook 2011; Jackson, S. T., ‘Arms production’, SIPRI Yearbook 2010; and Perlo-Freeman, S. et al., ‘The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing companies, 2007’, SIPRI Yearbook 2009, pp. 286–87.

[e] In 2011 ITT Corporation split into three stand-alone companies. ITT Exelis now accounts for all of the former corporation’s arms sales.

[f] The arms sales figures for KBR are an estimate based on payments from the US Department of Defense (DOD) for LOGCAP III and IV contracts and payments by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).

[g] Arms sales figures for Japanese companies represent new military contracts rather than arms sales.

[h] Limited financial data is available for AM General. The SIPRI estimate of arms sales is based on a 2-year average of US DOD prime contract awards.

[i] The arms sales figures for Krauss-Ma!ei Wegmann are based on a small estimate of the company’s non-military sales.

[j] The arms sales figures for Fluor are based on US DOD LOGCAP IV contracts.

[k] The arms sales figures for Jacobs Engineering Group are based on a 3-year average of US DOD prime contract awards.

[l] The arms sales figures for Mitre are based on a 5-year average of US DOD prime contract awards.

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