Understanding US foreign military sales globally since 2008: an analysis of a new dataset

1 Introduction 1
2 How the US exports military equipment 3
3 FMS notifications: a new database 5
4 Analysing FMS notifications since 2008 7
  4.1 Values of FMS notifications stable in real terms, but 2024 unusually high 8
  4.2 Geographical distribution of the sales 10
  4.3 Air, land and sea forces sales are balanced 10
5 Understanding US FMS by region 11
  5.1 Europe 11
  5.2 Near East and South Asia 12
  5.3 East Asia and the Pacific 13
  5.4 Americas and Africa 14
6 Details of specific system sales 15
  6.1 Type of equipment by region 15
  6.2 Geographical distribution of sales of high-value equipment 19
  6.3 Additional equipment 22
7 Conclusions 25
References 26
Annex 28
  Annex 1: Example of an FMS notification for sale to Finland 28
  Annex 2: LLM prompts 30