Mission

The maps show the correspondence between Africa’s best prospective areas for mineral resources (on top) and areas and countries with ongoing conflicts in the 1990s and early 2000s

Mission

TransArms main mission is to research the military logistic chain in its broadest sense, including:

● logistic activities of State actors: defense
logistics, international arms transfers, covert
operations

● logistic activities of non-State actors: supply-
chain of arms and other equipment, troops
deployment and mobility

● third- and fourth-party logistics

● logistics of hazardous materials

● arms brokering.

By providing expertise and consultancy on its main field of research, TransArms also aims to contribute to the efforts of international bodies, organizations and individuals who are committed to:

● curb arms transfers, in particular to politically
instable regions and war-torn areas

● refuse secret diplomacy, covert operations,
torture, hegemonic policies, and war as a mean
to settle international disputes.

* This Ilyushin 76-T, registration number ER-IBV (formerly RA-76521), manufacturing number 3423699, belonging to Artic Group Ltd and operated by Jet Line International and Aerocom, was variously used between 2003 and 2005 by the U.K. Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense for operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. Jet Line International’s aircraft have been frequent visitors of airports in Africa Great Lakes region, as well as Ostend, Maastricht, Prague-Ruzyne, Bratislava, and Tiraspol (in the separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria).