New Delhi: Conventional weapons include small arms, light weapons, sea mines, land mines, non-nuclear bombs, shells, rockets, missiles and cluster munitions.
These weapons use explosive material based on chemical energy.The conventional arms industry has grown many fields.
The Stockhom International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has released data about weapon buyers across the world.
The volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons was 24 percent higher in the period compared to the 2002-06 period.
The data show, the world's five largest importers of weapons over the last half decade are all in Asia, reflecting a variety of tensions playing out in the region.
Here is a list of top ten importers of weapons in the world on the basis of SIPRI's data.
