The Arms Tracking Newsroom began as a series of intensive investigations conducted all over the EU. We built on this reporting on arms exports to focus on where much of the real money is hidden, in long-term maintenance contracts. These agreements are often invisible links connected selling countries to controversial conflicts. We find them.
NEWSROOM ARMS TRACKING
At war without ammo
Why Europe and Ukraine are still struggling to ramp up ammunition production
War profiteers
How an Estonian arms broker pocketed millions at Ukraine’s expense
Turning a blind eye to Egypt’s violent navy
Dictatorship known for war crimes gets billions in naval exports
From Switzerland with love
Swiss arms harming civilians from Brazil’s favelas to Afghanistan
Circumventing a Danish export ban
Denmark’s largest IT company arming UAE forces active in Yemen
EU’s Invisible Links to Wars
Maintenance deals perpetuate French involvement in war in Libya, Yemen
UK’s toothless arms control
Tracing British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine
Airbus maintaining Turkey’s war
European giant aids Turkey with military airbridge to embargoed Libya
Spain maintains war in Yemen
Iberia and Airbus secretly profit from Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen
Under the Scandinavian radar
Swedish and Danish companies profit from selling arms to UAE and Saudis
Belgian Arms
Belgium sells air power to Saudis and ‘cop killer’ guns Mexico cartels
French arms, and deception
Secrets of France’s arms sales give lie to strict control regime
German support for Yemen
German-made military equipment used by Saudis and UAE in war in Yemen
Italian arms serving dictators
Tracing Italian weapons to Turkmenistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia