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US weapons sales overseas rose sharply last year, reaching a record total of $238bn (\u00a3187bn), as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stoked demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The US government directly negotiated $81bn in sales, a 56% increase from 2022, the state department reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rest were direct sales by US defence companies to foreign nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ukraine’s neighbour Poland, currently on a drive to expand its military, made some of the biggest purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poland bought Apache helicopters for $12bn, and also paid $10bn for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (Himars) and $3.75bn for M1A1 Abrams tanks, the department said in a report for the US government’s fiscal year that ended in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also spent $4bn on Integrated Air and Missile Defence Battle Command Systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Donald Tusk has vowed to continue the previous conservative government’s military modernisation programme, which aimed to make Poland “the most powerful land force in Europe”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: US weapons sales overseas rose sharply last year, reaching a record total of $238bn (\u00a3187bn), as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stoked demand. The US government directly negotiated $81bn in sales, a 56% increase from 2022, the state department reported. The rest were direct sales by US defence companies to foreign nations. Ukraine’s neighbour Poland, currently on a drive to expand its military, made some of the biggest purchases. Poland bought Apache helicopters for $12bn, and also paid $10bn for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (Himars) and $3.75bn for M1A1 Abrams tanks, the department said in a report for… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37320,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37318\/revisions\/37320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}