Deal To Supply New 84 x F-15SA To Saudi Arabia Signed
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Deal To Supply 84 x F-15SA To Saudi Arabia Signed
The deal to supply Saudi Arabia with 84 x new F-15SA and upgrade 70 previously supplied F-15S to F-15SA standard has been signed.
The F-15SA is essentially similar to the F-15K supplied to South Korea.
The significant upgrades included in the F-15SA standard aircraft are the APG-63(v)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar
and the 29,400 lbf F-110-GE-129 engines.
U.S., Saudi Sign Boeing F-15 Fighter Deal Proposed in 2010 - Bloomberg
The deal includes the following equipment:
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-14661.html
Looks like a seriously good bit of kit !
The F-15SA is essentially similar to the F-15K supplied to South Korea.
The significant upgrades included in the F-15SA standard aircraft are the APG-63(v)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar
and the 29,400 lbf F-110-GE-129 engines.
U.S., Saudi Sign Boeing F-15 Fighter Deal Proposed in 2010 - Bloomberg
The deal includes the following equipment:
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-14661.html
Looks like a seriously good bit of kit !
Last edited by RAFEngO74to09; 29th Dec 2011 at 19:09.
The USA will probably find this very embarassing in a few years time when the Saudi regime is finally overthrown.
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The USA will probably find this very embarassing in a few years time when the Saudi regime is finally overthrown.
Or stingers to afghans?
Or the Yalta/Potsdam/Balflour/any treaty you like
Or any number of instances of Realpolitik throughout the ages.
What a quaintly naive view of international relations you have.
Is this significant in that the Saudis are F-15 and Typhoon customers and appear to be buying more of the former and no more of the latter?
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Is this significant in that the Saudis are F-15 and Typhoon customers and appear to be buying more of the former and no more of the latter?
If there is a follow-on order I'd expect it to be for full Tranche 3 capability and with an AESA radar, which means any order might be several years away.
It may be strongly influenced by whether the Typhoon wins the India MMRCA contract, where the decision is expected within the next 2 weeks.
Later, rather than sooner, the USA & UK will realise that supplying Saudi Arabia (one of the most corrupt & hypocritical nations on the planet) with state of the art weapons/aircraft was a mistake of global proportions.Saudia Arabia can buy whatever it wants - until the oil runs dry - as it will eventually. SA is the most corrupt nation on the planet. - their are over 2000 Saudi Millionnaire/Billionaire "Princes/Princesses"). They spend their summers on the cooler "Golden Mile" in Marbella/Puerto Banus after being flown in to Malaga on several 747's. Literally "hundreds" of Saudi Royal Family descendants cruise the one way harbour "strip" in Puerto Banus every night in summer in the latest Ferraris/Lamborghinis etc. The older Arabs use £300,000+ Rolls'. Hordes of Burkha clad women roam the port with minders buying ridiculously priced designer branded clothes.
I have a first floor apartment directly overlooking the marina (above the "Piano Bar") & have watched this every year since 2001.
What I don't understand is that the Arabs (Saudi Arabia & many other Middle East nations) are allowed to bring semi & fully automatic rifles (machine guns) & pistols into Spain, the UK & all EU countries, unless they come in the "Diplomatic Bag".
I will say with 100% certainty that ALL the Middle East countries bring into ALL EU countries whatever weaponry they wish, after bribing the import agencies. Been there & seen it first hand..
Lets see 500N, ORAC/ Catzoue etc comment.
I will say with 100% certainty that ALL the Middle East countries bring into ALL EU countries whatever weaponry they wish, after bribing the import agencies. Been there & seen it first hand..
Alternatively, sell your story to the papers - they like nothing more than a bit of Johnny Foreigner bashing, particularly if it includes corrupt civil servants.
But just watch out for the thick set gentlemen wearing an ill fitting, and lumpy, suit and dark glasses if you do either of these. Don't say you haven't been warned.
Wrathmonk, remember the old saying from the 'Spooks' era 'beware the black omega's'
Have a good new year.
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Have a good new year.
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Yeah....we know...like.... Lend Lease, the Marshal Plan, NATO, and maintaining numerous Military Cemeteries from two World Wars in the UK and Europe!
What could we have done without you over the years!
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What a quaintly naive view of international relations you have.
What could we have done without you over the years!
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Yeah....we know...like.... Lend Lease, the Marshal Plan, NATO, and maintaining numerous Military Cemeteries from two World Wars in the UK and Europe!
What could we have done without you over the years!
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What could we have done without you over the years!
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I wish you a prosperous New Year. Peace and Goodwill to All.
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You can sell em what you want, but pull the contractors out of the country and they would be back to towing them with camels..
Thought the Afghan Stingers were time critical on the software front? Probably wrong, but read somewhere if not used in a certain time they became inop.
Thought the Afghan Stingers were time critical on the software front? Probably wrong, but read somewhere if not used in a certain time they became inop.
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Originally Posted by glad rag
But who's going to fly them? 
Liberty Memorial?
A related question. Where is the Israeli funded memorial to the sailors they murdered on the USS Liberty? The US has a Holocaust Museum funded by the US tax payers and we did not cause that.
When selling advanced aircraft and missiles the US needs to only consider what is in our best interests. To my knowledge the Saudi military has not overtly and with premeditation attacked and killed Americans operating in international waters.
The Sultan
When selling advanced aircraft and missiles the US needs to only consider what is in our best interests. To my knowledge the Saudi military has not overtly and with premeditation attacked and killed Americans operating in international waters.
The Sultan
To my knowledge the Saudi military has not overtly and with premeditation attacked and killed Americans operating in international waters.
