George1 Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:21 pm
U.S. Fiscal 2020 Defense Export Totals
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) released its official summary of U.S. defense exports in fiscal 2020 (ended September 30, 2020 ) on December 4, 2020 . Another Lockheed Martin F-35I Lightning II fighter jets delivered to Israel through the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program and US military aid.
DSCA's FY2020 agreements and clearances through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program totaled $ 50.78 billion, according to a press release, which includes $ 44.79 billion. in the form of direct intergovernmental agreements with foreign countries through the FMS, $ 3.3 billion agreements in the line of direct financing of foreign armies in the form of military aid (Foreign Military Financing - FMF) and $ 2.69 billion agreements to strengthen the military capabilities of partners ( Building Partner Capacity - BMC).
At the same time, it was reported that in the 2020 financial year, the US Department of State issued licenses for the export of defense property directly to American manufacturing companies through direct commercial sales Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) for a total of $ 124.3 billion.
Thus, the total potential volume of US defense exports in 2020 fiscal year as the sum of the notification of FMS lines and DCS line licenses declared of $ 175.08 billion, which is 2.8% more than in the 2019 fiscal year when it declared amounted to $ 170.09 billion.
Αccording to the attached DSCA statistical data, the largest volume of FMS agreements and notifications in FY2020 by country were:
Taiwan - $ 11.777 billion
Poland - to $ 4.71 billion
Morocco - $ 4.539 billion
UAE - $ 3.568 billion
India - $ 3.364 billion
South Korea - $ 2.124 billion
Japan - $ 1.983 billion
Australia - $ 1.718 billion
Singapore - $ 1.292 billion
Saudi Arabia - $ 1.175 billion
Afghanistan - $ 1.071 billion
Israel - $ 1.058 billion
It can also be noted that agreements and notifications under the FMS in the 2020 financial year are indicated with Ukraine for a record amount of $ 510.599 million for this country.
On the part of bmpd, we would like to point out that these figures should not be taken as the actual volume of US defense exports, either for actual deliveries or for new contracts.
The US Department of State's DCS Licensing Summary is an aggregated amount of licenses for a given company, for long-term supply, or optional contracting and supply.
As for the DSCA aggregate data for the FMS, it is mainly obtained by summarizing the official notices issued by DSCA for the fiscal year about the planned agreements under this line. The DSCA notifications themselves are not contracts at all and do not mean that the contract will be concluded. In fact, DSCA in its annual reports does not correctly calculate the figures for the volumes of agreements concluded under the FMS on the basis of prepared preliminary agreements (Letters of Offer and Acceptance, LOA), and not directly signed contracts, which systematically leads to serious overestimations of the total amounts. In addition, in a number of cases, DSCA indicates in its reporting supplies subsequently sold through DCS (as was the case with the acquisition of F-15K fighters from Boeing by South Korea). Characteristically
So, as a typical picture, in the 2016 financial year, DSCA announced the conclusion of agreements under the FMS (and military construction FMCS) in the amount of $ 27.618 billion, and licenses under the DCS (and DCSS technology transfers) for $ 49.845 billion - a total of 77.463 billion dollars.According to the DSCA itself, the actual deliveries of military equipment from the United States abroad in the 2016 financial year amounted to $ 30.598 billion (excluding the distribution of surplus military equipment through the EDA) - including $ 17.264 billion through the FMS ( and FMCS), and $ 9.636 billion in various lines of commercial sales, and another $ 3.698 billion in supplies under other programs (mainly special programs for military supplies to Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as supplies to other states under programs to assist in the fight against terrorism and illegal drug trafficking).
According to our estimates, the total volume of actual deliveries of US military equipment abroad in the 2020 financial year was in the region of $ 45-50 billion, which, however, demonstrates the leading position of the United States in the global defense market.
The data published by DSCA on the cost parameters of special property and services that are the subject of licenses issued and concluded agreements and contracts for the supply of US military products abroad under the FMS, FMCS and DCS programs should be considered rather as an aggregated portfolio of contracts for US military-technical cooperation with foreign states.
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