a new report released today by the stockholm peace research institute or sipri says says that a global arms sales have grown markedly in the last five years the u.s. the world's biggest weapons exporter has been a key driver of that growth it provides at least ninety eight countries with combat aircraft short range cruise and ballistic missiles and guided bombs. a third of global arms over the five year is came from the us. russia takes second place with one fifth of global arms deliveries that's even though russia's weapons exports have declined the result of lower demand from india and venezuela says sipri france and germany come in third and fourth respectively german ships and submarines are particularly popular with south korea greece and israel. china too is a big player when it comes to music schools it takes fifth place. meanwhile saudi arabia topped the list of imposes its imports of increased by one hundred ninety