Watch the vast flow of US arms exports over 6 decades (VIDEO)
Meanwhile, Japan saw the greatest amount of arms in the 1980s, followed by Saudi Arabia and then Israel and Egypt.
This was largely repeated in the 1990s, while in the 2000s, South Korea and Israel took the greatest slice of the US arms pie.
From 2010, Saudi Arabia received the greatest number of weapons, with Australia next in line.
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