The Saudi deal may be weak.
It was actually the 434 for the Border Guard.
At this year's Heli-Expo Pino seemed to voice the death sentence for the 434 [other than for the Saudi's] as a project. Meanwhile other strands suggest the Saudi's are have some difficulties in getting their local pilot trainees to turn up for work more than a couple of days when they read the training manual. Camel's preferred it seems.
So, if the whole fleet of 434's is delivered it looks like the whole project is going to end up something like the pile of Westland WG30's...... lots of post time on pprune but no flight time to speak of...... those spares may be a BIG lemon.
We have airframes out there bedevilled by spares shortages but I suspect that the 434 will have the opposite effect.....