Wired’s Danger Room posted a piece yesterday on the US awarding a no-bid defense contract to Russian state-run weapons exporter Rosoboronexport. The real eyebrow raiser is the Russian company’s history of arms deals with Syria and Iran that led to sanctions imposed (since lifted) by the US. So aside from the two “bad guy” names in the Danger Room post, what other countries can the company claim as customers?

We’ll use Recorded Future to first analyze the web for mentions of Rosoboronexport and company activity taking place between 2005 and 2009:

Rosoboronexport 2005-2009 - Click for live view

Highlighted in grey are events mentioning both the company and India, and below the timeline, you can see a number of other countries associated with the company in news, blogs, and so on. Aside from those locations clearly in view, if you click through to the live visual, you’ll find links to deals with Libya, Belarus, Burma, Algeria, Sudan, and more.

And how have things looked since the US lifted it’s freeze on trade with the company? We can see lots of activity with interests ranging from Western governments to southeast Asia to Africa.

Rosoboronexport - From 2010 into the Future - Click for Live Details

Some of the juiciest points that stand out include the supply of weapons or military vehicles to both sides of serious conflicts on the horizon for China. We’re talking the simultaneous provision of arms for China and India (neighboring superpowers that seem almost certain to butt heads), and separately, selling submarines to Vietnam, which is on tense terms with China due to ongoing conflict over the South China Sea.

Presumably there is quite a bit about Rosoboronexport buried in the open source intelligence available on the web that may be useful to government and risk analysts. Click the second of the images above to keep tabs on future developments related to the Russian arms company or head over to our website and get started with your own temporal analysis of the web.