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=== Arms industry === [[File:IAF Rafale aircraft touching down at Air Force Station Ambala on its arrival on 29 July 2020 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Dassault Rafale]]]] The French government is the French arms industry's main customer, mainly buying warships, guns, nuclear weapons and equipment. During the 2000β2015 period, France was the fourth largest [[Arms industry#World's largest arms exporters|weapons exporter]] in the world.<ref>[http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/toplist.php SIPRI Arms Transfers Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214003447/http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/toplist.php |date=14 February 2013 }}, data 2000β10. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/arms-trade-exporters-importers-weapons-transfers-sipri-a6891491.html Arms trade: One chart that shows the biggest weapons exporters of the last five years] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815131730/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/arms-trade-exporters-importers-weapons-transfers-sipri-a6891491.html |date=15 August 2017 }}, [[The Independent]]</ref> French manufacturers export great quantities of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Greece, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Singapore and many others. It was reported that in 2015, French arms sales internationally amounted to 17.4 billion U.S. dollars,<ref>[http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/01/20/France-doubles-arms-sales-in-2015/9501453304801/ France doubles arms sales in 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221164957/http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/01/20/France-doubles-arms-sales-in-2015/9501453304801/ |date=21 December 2016 }}, UPI.com</ref> more than double the figure of 2014.<ref>[http://www.france24.com/en/20150503-arms-sales-becoming-france-new-el-dorado-but-what-cost-francois-hollande-saudi-arabia-rafale Arms sales becoming France's new El Dorado, but at what cost?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221233146/http://www.france24.com/en/20150503-arms-sales-becoming-france-new-el-dorado-but-what-cost-francois-hollande-saudi-arabia-rafale |date=21 December 2016 }}, [[France24]]</ref>
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