Top 100 Defence Companies

Here are the top 10 largest defence companies in the world.

Top 100 defence companies. Last year proved highly profitable for most of the world s biggest aerospace companies. The top defence companies in the world have a combined revenue in 2019 exceeding 319 billion registering a strong 6. Defense revenues of the top 100 defense companies in the world climbed for a fourth straight year pushed upward by u s. The sipri arms industry database contains information on arms producing and military services.

2020 top 100 click headers to sort. A defense contractor or military contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military department of a government. Although the defense sector has faced pandemic related business. This report ranks the global top 100 public companies by market capitalisation as at june 2020.

But now china has six entries of the top 15 and this rise happened only within a year which is an amazing achievement. Now the united states has to fight for its crown as the most powerful country on the globe. The database contains financial data and employment data for arms producing companies in the oecd and developing countries except china based on open sources. The 2019 list of the top 100 aerospace companies compiled by flight global has been released.

In our annual global top 100 report issued in may 2020 we recognised that the reference point of 31 march 2020 fell in the midst of an upheaval in the global equity markets caused by the covid 19 pandemic. This year s defense news top 100 list of global defense companies coincides with a steep economic downturn created by covid 19. The us alone spends more on defence than the remaining top 10 combined. Top 100 for 2020.

Follow our staff newsletters rss feeds help home. China earlier had very small defense contractors with no entries in the top 100 defense contractors either. As well there are some enduring characteristics that are reinforced by the 2017 rankings. Defense spending growth combined with strong foreign military sales.

The defense news top 100 captures some of the changes but not all that are taking place among global defense contractors. The top 100 continued to increase profits even with overall modest revenue growth. Last year s rank 2012 defense revenue 2011 defense revenue percent change total revenue 2012 percent defense country.