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Reselling the weapons is the problem in the international weapons trade

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Legal weapons trade is very controlled thing, and selling weapons to the countries, what are in the war, is strictly prohibited by the international law. The problem of the selling weapons is not actually, that manufacturers of the weapons are breaking those rules. Many weapons will be sold to the legal customers like Saudi-Arabia, and that country is not in the war, but then we must realize, that some of those weapons might be resold to some other country, what is in the war.


Here I must say, that Saudi-Arabia officially follows the international law, but there is a phrase in those countries, what goes that "what the man speaks is not mean that man even knows what the other men do".  So there might be little difference between the truth and speech. The problem is that is those illegal weapons trade would uncover, there will be found some corrupted officials, who get the punishments. In those cases, there would be no evidence, that the government would systematically break the international law. But as I mentioned, the weapon reselling is the big problem.


This system would go like this, first, the western nation will sell the weapons to some legal customer, what will resell some of those weapons to some other country, what will resell them to some other nation, and this is the very big problem. When there is the concatenated sell process in the front of the user, those weapons are very difficult to trace, because that stuff might be marked as the metal trash, what goes to the steel factories. When those containers would open, there would be weapons and other military stuff.


And of course, those customers of those productions would remove the marks of the tanks and armored personnel carriers (APC:s), what would make difficult to recognize that military equipment as the Piranha or AMV (Armoured Modular Vehicle) APC:s. This means that the type shields of that vehicle will be removed, and the shape of those vehicles will try to change by installing the canvas and equipment baskets on the roof of those vehicles. The purpose of this action is to make the vehicle more difficult to recognize if they are visible on the TV or Internet.

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http://www.army-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-best-armoured-personnel-carriers-4142101/

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