| Just in case the Mad Mullahs™ get frisky... |
PARIS: Saudi Arabia has placed a $1.7 billion direct commercial sales contract with Raytheon Company to upgrade the Kingdom's Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to the latest Configuration-3. The award includes ground-system hardware, a full training package and support equipment upgrades.
| Don't forget to alter the programming to make it unable to see things arriving from Israel, should the Saudis decide to get frisky after this little Iranian situation is resolved. Ask the IDF to show you what their people did to the radar Russia sold to Syria... |
The announcement came Tuesday at the Paris Air Show where military and commercial deals are done for both military and civilian aircraft and technology.
Raytheon first supplied the combat-proven Patriot system to Saudi Arabia in the 1990s to protect the nation's critical assets. Subject to customary US regulatory approvals, work under this contract will be performed by Raytheon at the Integrated Air Defense Center in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Saudi Arabia. The newly redesigned Patriot protects against a full range of advanced threats, including aircraft, tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and UAVs. |