The military industry, as we know, feeds the wars that reap many victims, but for some it is above all a huge business. Especially if the top arms importer on the planet, India is also his best customer and he alone placed him an order for 5 billion dollars, a record amount since the Soviet Union, for the engines of 1.000 Sukhoy fighter planes. Or if China, another major partner (the third most important is Syria), despite reducing supplies from abroad, has just signed an agreement to jointly build four diesel-powered submarines, for a value of about 2 billion dollars (and New Delhi is already ready to buy 6).
Vladimir Putin's Russia is therefore increasingly the Earth's arsenal: in 2012 it reached the record figure for deliveries of 14 billion dollars, which, considering the additional contracts signed (with deliveries in 2013), reaches over 15 billion, taking even the Kremlin by surprise. “We have gone beyond our goals,” Putin was pleased. The record numbers of exports of military equipment from Moscow are mainly attributable to China and India, two pacifist allies, but unfortunately also to Syria in the midst of the civil war and to Iraq, which has recently signed a contract worth as much as 4,2 billions of dollars for the supply of 30 Mi-28 helicopters and 42 Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missiles.
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