Arms Production in Developing Countries: The Continuing Proliferation of Conventional Weapons.

Abstract

The subject of this note concerns the efforts of developing countries of reduce their dependence on the advanced industrial states, including the development of domestic arms industries. Data are presented on arms production by country for three points in time (1969, 1970, 1980) on four types (and sub-types) of weapons: aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, and naval vessels. The major increase in weapons production came during the 1970s--15 developing countries produced arms in 1960, 18 in 1970, and 28 in 1980. Non-economic motivations to produce weapons are hypothesized to include external and internal security threats, vulnerability to manipulation by exporters, insecure military security relationships, and national pride, economic goals, import substitution, export potential, and technological stimulation of other sectors. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA112438

Entities

People

  • Andrew L. Ross

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Arms Control
  • Assembly
  • Assembly Lines
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Guided Missiles
  • Helicopters
  • Manufacturing
  • Motivation
  • Naval Vessels
  • Security
  • United States
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Strategic Security Studies