section_path: Economic sectors/Arms industry
section_name: Arms industry
paragraph_text: Arms industry
  
  The French government is the French arms industry's main customer, mainly buying warships, guns, nuclear weapons and equipment.
  
  During the 2000–2015 period, France was the fourth largest weapons exporter in the world.
  
  French manufacturers export great quantities of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Greece, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Singapore and many others. It was reported that in 2015, French arms sales internationally amounted to 17.4 billion U.S. dollars, more than double the figure of 2014.
  
  The French government is the French arms industry's main customer, mainly buying warships, guns, nuclear weapons and equipment.
  
  During the 2000–2015 period, France was the fourth largest weapons exporter in the world.
  
  French manufacturers export great quantities of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Greece, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Singapore and many others. It was reported that in 2015, French arms sales internationally amounted to 17.4 billion U.S. dollars, more than double the figure of 2014.
  
  The French government is the French arms industry's main customer, mainly buying warships, guns, nuclear weapons and equipment.
  
  During the 2000–2015 period, France was the fourth largest weapons exporter in the world.
  
  French manufacturers export great quantities of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Greece, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Singapore and many others. It was reported that in 2015, French arms sales internationally amounted to 17.4 billion U.S. dollars, more than double the figure of 2014.