[COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export Contracts to USA

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WikiWeapons
Canada
In an effort to help fill a massive gap in the Government of
Canada's reporting on military exports, the
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(COAT) has just released "WikiWeapons Canada." 
This database exposes 18,888 Canadian military-export contracts to the
United States, worth over US$7.2 billion between 1999 and 2009. 

The export contracts revealed in this database include Canadian-made
automatic machine guns, ammunition, weapons-firing systems, armoured
battle vehicles, guided-missile remote-control systems for helicopters,
and numerous high-tech components that exported to the U.S. for assembly
into many of the world's deadliest weapons systems. 

Although the Government of Canada has released periodic arms-export
reports since 1990, called Export of Military Goods from Canada,
these severely-flawed publications have never included any data
whatsoever on sales to the United States. This deliberate flaw is
especially egregious because although Canada's government claims to
"closely control" military exports to countries "involved
in or under imminent threat of hostilities," the U.S. accounts for
80% of Canada's total military exports. 

* Read a
full critique of the government's latest arms-export report and
learn how 96.5% of Canada's military exports were sold to countries at
war between 2007-2009.
* Read more about
why
 COAT is releasing
WikiWeapons Canada and why the government should finally start to
include U.S. figures in its periodic reports.
* Download the

WikiWeapons Canada database, in Excel format.

WikiWeapons Canada includes:

Canadian Components embedded in Major
U.S. Weapons Systems
Included in the WikiWeapons Canada database are 1,100+
contracts (worth US$900 million) for Canadian-made components exported to
the U.S. for assembly into major weapons systems used in the Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere. (Click the links below to learn more about
these major weapons systems that contain Canadian components detailed in
WikiWeapons Canada database.)
* Warplanes firing Depleted Uranium munitions  
(
A-10 "Thunderbolt")
* Fighter and Attack warplanes  
(F-14 "Tomcat,"
F-15 "Eagle,"
F-16 "Fighting
Falcon," F/A-18
"Hornet")
* Helicopter gunships  
(AH-1 "Cobra,"
AH-64
"Apache")
* Bombers  
(B-1
"Lancer," B-2
"Spirit," B-52
"Stratofortress")
* Battle Vehicles  
(M1
"Abrams" tanks,
M2 "Bradley
Fighting Vehicles")
* Heavy Artillery  
(M109 155 mm
"Paladin" howitzer)
* Electronic-warfare aircraft  
(
E-2 "Hawkeye,"
E-3
"Sentry,"
EA-6B
"Prowler,"
ES-3A
"Shadow")

Other Canadian military-export contracts to the U.S. revealed in
"WikiWeapons Canada" database include:

Small arms
* M249 machine guns/automatic weapons (5.56 mm) 
* M60 machine guns (7.62 mm) 

Ammunition
US$650 million, 163 contracts
* ranging from under 30mm to over 125 mm

Guns
US$105 million, 300 contracts for guns up to 200 mm
calibre:
* under 30 mm: US$60 million, 237 contracts
* 75 mm - 125 mm: US$32 million, 52 contracts
* 125 mm - 200 mm: US$13 million, 12 contracts

Weapons-Firing Systems
US$78 million, 34 contracts

Combat Vehicles and parts
US$1.27 Billion, 2000+ contracts.

Guided Missile Remote-Control Systems
for helicopters
*
AH-1G
"Cobra" 
* AH-1J
"Sea Cobra" 
*

CH-53 "Sea Stallion" 
*

CH-46 "Sea Knight" 
*
SH-60
"Sea Hawk" 

Stoking the Tsunamis of War and Repression
On March 11, just hours after Japan's
earthquake, the Canadian government finally released its
much-delayed and severely-flawed report on arms exports.  Contrary
to government rhetoric, over 96% of Canada's military exports go to
countries with troops fighting wars in the Middle East, Central Asia
and/or elsewhere. Canada's arms exports also aid and abet brutal
undemocratic regimes that abuse human rights and repress labour
rights.  (This is the lead article in the May issue of
The
Monitor, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives.)

Applying the Nuremberg Principles of International Law to CANSEC
2011
CANSEC, Canada's largest weapons fair, will be held on
June 1 and 2, 2011, at the City of Ottawa's prime municipal facility,
Lansdowne Park.
Find out about the nonviolent actions planned by the Spring
Nuremberg Action Group (SNAG) for June 1 to put a snag in Canada's
largest war-industry exhibition and trade show. 

Canadian
Military Exporters Selling to the Middle East
Here is an interactive list of about 200 Canadian military
companies known to have exported to the Middle East and/or North
Africa.  As you'll see, many of these companies are members of the
government-funded, Canadian war-industry lobby group that organises
CANSEC 2011.  Click the company names to learn more about their
military products, where they are located, and the names and contact
details for their CEOs and presidents.  

CANSEC 2011 Exhibitors 
Here is an interactive list of 230 military exhibitors
preregistered to showcase their so-called "defence and
security" products at CANSEC 2011. 

CANSEC: War is
Business
Access all the articles (and graphics) in a 50-page
issue of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms
Trade (COAT) magazine that focused on CANSEC and the grass-roots 2010
struggle to maintain the City of Ottawa's
20-year ban on hosting
arms bazaars on municipal property. 

Canada's
Military Exports to the Middle East and North Africa
Access seven different sets of COAT data tables
demonstrating Canada's deeply complicity in aiding and abetting many
unpopular U.S.-backed regimes that have retained their grip on power
through coercion, intimidation and violence.

Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(COAT)