The Armory is an anonymous marketplace where you can buy and sell without revealing who you are. We protect your identity through every step of the process, from connecting to this site, to purchasing your items, to finally receiving them....
To get to The Armoury, you need to deploy a free piece of software called TOR.
TOR routes and reroutes your connection to the internet through a sprawling maze of encrypted nodes around the world, making it a herculean feat to find out who’s who. The Armory’s URL — ayjkg6ombrsahbx2.onion — reflects that, a garbled string of letters and numbers deliberately impossible to memorise. Once you’re actually signed in, you then have to turn to Bitcoins as mandatory currency, a further exercise in computer secrecy and complexity in itself. This ain’t exactly walking into a gun show and walking out with a pistol.

That receiving part is almost as tricky as the labyrinthine purchasing process. How exactly do you illegally ship illegal guns to potential criminals? In pieces. Small pieces. The crafty gun dealers of The Armory aren’t going to just stick an assault rifle into a manilla envelope and drop it into a local mailbox. Rather, buyers get each gun component shipped in shielded packages — disguised to look like other products — that then require self-assembly. You get your gun, the dealer gets his money, The Armory retains its secrecy, and the mail carrier doesn’t realise it’s part of an international weapons smuggling operation

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Portugal was also accused by US officials of exporting US-calibre artillery rounds to Iran in direct government-to-government agreements. The ammunition was produced in Portuguese factories, some of which operated on American licenses. Because the quantities were relatively small, the Portuguese claimed the deliveries would not affect the course of the war. Moreover, Portuguese officials contended with Fairbanks staffers that their sales were beneficial to the West "because they opened channels of information to Iran lacking ever since the US embassy shut down, and may have helped provide the Iranian military with an alternative to a total switchover to Soviet block weaponry."

But the Portuguese deliveries were not as small as all that. In 1984, Iran edged out Iraq as Portugal's principle arms customer. By 1985, Iran was buying ammunition worth $28 million, or 43.8% of all Portuguese arms exports. In 1986, that figure was believed to climb to 67% (8). Portugal was also known for providing fake EUC's to black marketeers trying to export US equipment to Iran.

Unconfirmed reports also alleged that Norte Importadora, acting with the full approval of the Portuguese Defense Ministry, repaired Iranian F-4 fighters using spare parts out of NATO stockpiles, and that two lots of TOW missiles were shipped to Iran from Portugal in May and December 1986. The first TOW shipment was for 4,020 missiles, at a cost to Iran estimated at $50 million, using Turkey as the fictitious end-user. 2,500 additional TOWs, worth $29 million, were shipped in December disguised as "plumbing equipment and medicine"

Meanwhile, reports in Newsweek and The Washington Post in January and February 1987 revealed that a Portuguese firm, Defex-Portugal, played a leading role in supplying arms to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The arms were purchased by Energy Resources International, whose registered address in Vienna, Virginia coincided with an office used by General Richard Secord.