ArmsTrack
A buyer-side public dashboard tracking every major U.S. Foreign Military Sale and major NATO defense contract — searchable by country, platform (F-35, Patriot, Reaper) and status.
Journalism researchers, think-tank analysts and policy students who need a queryable FMS / arms-sale database
- Searchable DSCA Foreign Military Sales database with plain-language summaries
- Country timeline showing every major deal from 2015 to today
- 'Why this deal matters' analyst note attached to each record
- Exportable CSV for academic and journalistic research
Public DSCA notifications are technically public but buried in government PDFs — a database layer on top turns them into a working research tool for the F-35/Turkey story and many more to come.
Source trend explicitly marked 'f' (negligible); audience is narrow professional niche (journalism researchers, think-tank analysts), though validated by the existence of multiple established trackers.Foreign Military Sales (FMS) | Defense Security Cooperation Agency ↗
Crowded free landscape: Forum on the Arms Trade runs a detailed annual FMS tracker, DSCA itself publishes notifications, Bruegel maintains a compiled FMS dataset, SIPRI tracks transfers, and Stimson runs Security Assistance Monitor — all free.Major Arms Sales Notifications Tracker - Forum on the Arms Trade ↗US Foreign Military Sales dataset - Bruegel ↗
Target users (journalism students, think-tank analysts) have near-zero willingness to pay given Forum on Arms Trade, Bruegel, DSCA, SIPRI all offer free data; institutional buyers compete with entrenched Janes (expensive, established).Janes defence intelligence datasets ↗SIPRI databases ↗
FMS program is statutory under the Arms Export Control Act and central to US foreign policy; demand for arms-transfer transparency is durable and tied to ongoing geopolitical flashpoints (Taiwan, Ukraine, Middle East).Foreign Military Sales (FMS) - DSCA ↗
Underlying data is public but format is unstable — Forum on Arms Trade notes DSCA/State Dept URLs changed in 2025 and again in 2026, breaking earlier links, signaling real scraping/maintenance burden.Major Arms Sales Notifications Tracker - Forum on the Arms Trade ↗