The UK exported more weapons in 2025 than in any other year since the government began collecting such data in 1983, the British Defense Ministry has announced.
London secured £20 billion ($27 billion) in arms sales to foreign countries this year, the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Much of the business generated by the British defense industry comes in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In fact, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in November called UK defense firms the “locomotives” of national industry, stating that profits from the conflict are “basically saving the British economy from bankruptcy,” thus explaining why London is uninterested in a peaceful settlement.
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