In our Worldwide Investment in Cluster Munitions reports we shortlisted companies that produce cluster munitions based on:
1 whether we found financial links with the company. This means that if we found no investments in a producer, the producer is NOT listed in our report.
2 our definition of a cluster munitions producer is based on the definition of a cluster munition and submunitions in the Convention on Cluster Munitions. We consider a company or group of companies to be a cluster munitions producer when any part, however small, of its total turnover is derived from producing (key components for) cluster munitions or explosive submunitions, regardless of the nature of the company’s other activities.
These criteria, combined with a lack of information available in the public domain, makes that our short so called “red flag list” list of producers is not to be seen as an exhaustive list of ALL cluster munitions producers in the world.
In order to be deleted from our red flag list, we must find no evidence of production and the company must have publicly stated that they no longer are involved in the production of cluster munitions or key components thereof, and/or we did not find any financial links with the company.
Arms companies that to our knowledge have stopped the production of cluster munitions between 2009-2018:
- Roketsan (Turkey)
- L-3 Communications (USA)
- Lockheed Martin (USA)
- Singapore Technologies Engineering (Singapore)
- Orbital ATK (USA) (Now: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) )
- Textron (USA)
Information received by PAX after the last publication in 2018 suggests that Hanwha (South Korea), as well as Elbit Systems (Israel) have stopped the production of cluster munitions or key components thereof too.