1. I was Canadian Forces and I observed 1st hand the so called Saudi military. M109s that they've bought were rusting in the desert. The Saudis can buy the Starship Enterprise and within a year, it will be a rusting hulk.
2. I would not count on the Saudis to be a reference for any piece of kit. It would only make you a laughing stock. Just pocket the money and laugh your way to the bank. Don't count on anything more than that.
1. When exactly where you in Saudi Arabia, just curious.
2. You know after gulf war the Saudi's were forced (by the idiot saddam who was bankrupting his nation to support its military) to purchase large amounts of equipment while the nose diving oil price and huge increase in debt and liquidation of foregin assets to pay for the war ensured there was large budgetary pressures. By over-extending on purchasing arms the Saudi's had too little resources to allocate to training and integrating purchases.
Also even in gulf war had the Iraqi's decided to invade into Saudi Arabia they would have faced heavy losses. Saudi wasnt Kuwait, but indeed a ring of cities (and the important Eastern Oil fields) would probably have been destroyed sending oil prices rocketing up.
Also Iraq had fully extended economy to support largest possible military, the Saudi's were not. Had Iraq (foolishly invaded Saudi) and U.S. not intervened, the Saudi's would have initiated a general mobilisation of the entire male age fighting population armed with light weapons to reinforce volunteer military to fight bloody battles in the North East. This was a step that neither the Saudi's nor Saddam would have wanted.