History Main / ArmsFair

* ''Film/LordOfWar'' has had several - all illegal. And with Russian-Military-themed women dancing on tanks.
** The one with the Russian-Military-themed women was implied to be legit, or as legit as you can get with an arms sale held by corrupt elements of the post-Soviet military hosted by a laissez-faire Middle Eastern state.
* The plot of ''DealOfTheCentury'' revolves around one.
* ''BabylonAD'' opens with Vin Diesel striding through a rain-drenched arms market in Eastern Europe to complain about a pistol he bought for only $20 that misfired on him.

* ''BlackHawkDown'' features extensive sequences showing off that the entire city Mogadishu qualifies as an ArmsFair, despite being under the control of a ruthless warlord who will kill people trying to get the food supplies sent by various aid groups.
* In the PreTitlesSequence of ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', JamesBond must infiltrate an Arms Fair to confirm its location and is observing the event. Over the objections of M, who wants Bond to finish his recon, British and Russian generals order a Tomahawk missile to take it the arms fair. As the missile is launched, Bond discovers an L-39 Albatros with [[MnogoNukes nuclear torpedoes]] on board at the fair.

* [[JamesBond Goldeneye]] for the Wii features a level taking place at an arms fair.

-->''Any Sunday, down Petticoat Lane, you could find some of the lads selling lorries, jerrycans, bullets, webbing. “Git your luverly Anti-Aircraft Guns ‘ere.” It got so that Military Depots were shopping there for supplies. Often London-based regiments sent their Quarter Blokes out for ‘a gross of three-inch Mortars and a dozen bananas’. It was common knowledge that Caledonian Road Market was a German supply depot. The true story behind Hess: he flew here for cut-price black-market underwear for the S.S., but on arrival he chickened out when Churchill told him the price, unconditional surrender.''

* An example of second variant [[PlayedForLaughs exaggerated for comic effect]] in Creator/SpikeMilligan's ''Literature/AdolfHitlerMyPartInHisDownfall'' "[[UnreliableNarrator memoirs]]":

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakaara_Market Bakaara Market]] in [[WretchedHive Somalia]] during the civil war there.

* ''LordOfWar'' has had several - all illegal. And with Russian-Military-themed women dancing on tanks.

* ''LordOfWar'' has had several - all illegal. And with [[GoodLookingPrivates Russian-Military-themed women dancing on tanks]].

* ''{{Airwolf}}'' had mini-ones.
* {{Chuck}} has "Weap Con," of which [[ColonelBadass Casey]] was an enthusiastic attendant every year.

* In the PreTitlesSequence of ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', JamesBond must infiltrate an Arms Fair to confirm its location and allow a Tomahawk missile to take it out. As the missile is launched, he discovers an L-39 Albatros with [[MnogoNukes nuclear torpedoes]] on board...

* BlackHawkDown features extensive sequences showing off that the entire city Mogadishu qualifies as an ArmsFair, despite being under the control of a ruthless warlord who will kill people trying to get the food supplies sent by various aid groups.
* In the PreTitlesSequence of ''TomorrowNeverDies'', JamesBond must infiltrate an Arms Fair to confirm its location and allow a Tomahawk missile to take it out. As the missile is launched, he discovers an L-39 Albatros with [[MnogoNukes nuclear torpedoes]] on board...

** Sadly, the HoodOrnamentHottie bit is ''not'' entirely unrealistic, although as with E3, YourMileageMayVary as to what's hotter.

* Illegal: By a crime gang or terrorist group, located in some field somewhere.

* A short for ''GundamSEEDAstray'' shows Lowe and the gang at a fair on Earth and getting in trouble after he buys the head of a BuCue containing sensitive military information.

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** The one with the Russian-Military-themed women was implied to be legit.

* ''Deal of the Century'' IS this trope!

8 BlackHawkDown features extensive sequences showing off that the entire city Mogadishu qualifies as an ArmsFair, despite being under the control of a ruthless warlord who will kill people trying to get the food supplies sent by various aid groups.