Photo Gallery Weapons 'Made in Germany'
The Leopard 2 is made by the Munich-based firm Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, which has made the tank for more than 30 years. Pictured is a Leopard 2 A4. Once owned by the German army, it was exported to Chile in 2009.
An article in SPIEGEL last year sparked controversy by reporting that Germany wanted to export up to 270 Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia. The deal, which has not been confirmed by officials, fuelled a debate on the ethics of Germany providing weapons for authoritarian regimes.
The Eurofighter was built in the 1990s by a German-Italian-British team. It is now being sold worldwide under the name Typhoon. Pictured is one of 15 of the planes bought by Austria.
Two British RAF (Royal Air Force) Eurofighter Typhoons F2 landed at Mosnov Airport some 380 kilometers east of Prague, in 2007, the Eurofighter's first appearance in Central and Eastern Europe.
Despite the euro crisis, Greece has ordered six submarines from Germany's Howaldtswerken (HDW), part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
From the port of Kiel, HDW is also exporting submarines to Israel. In June 2012, SPIEGEL revealed that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-armed cruise missiles. The German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned.
The "Fuchs" (Fox) is sold internationally, particularly popular is the version designed to identify atomic or chemical contamination. Around 200 of the tanks have been exported. The most controversial export was the delivery of 36 tanks to Saudi Arabia in 1991.
Machine guns 'made in Germany' are particularly popular. Heckler & Koch has exported its MP5 to more than 50 countries, including South Korea.
Its security forces were trained during an anti-terrorism course in Seoul.
