People like lists. And certainly, there are plenty of lists to come by in our space — some are based on contract awards, some are based on total revenue. To quote a really terrible proverb, there are many ways to skin a cat.
How we do it is to rank companies by defense revenue — that is, sales that support efforts in military, intelligence and aspects of homeland security. It’s a tactic that we believe isolates the one statistic that best reflects market presence.
But it’s not an easy statistic to come by. We ask companies to dig up and submit to us the totals, which can often be strewn across multiple business units and programs.
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WNU Editor: The list of the top 100 is here .... Top 100 for 2018 (Defense News).
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There is one issue about the list.It doesn't include any chinese weapons manufacturers.That's because chinese defence contractors are not as public as the rest.They're all by default state owned so accurate data is a bit hard to come by due to state secrecy.Still if data could be obtained i'm certain that some chinese companies would be quite high on the list.
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