Oublious
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*shane mcmahon theme plays*
Trust me these guys are gonna get F-35's soon.
But isn't this how Turkey started its military industry through TOT deals with European countries and Israel and the US?Arab will suprass arab nothing more, they will never achieve more then spare parts manufacturer. They will learn that critical parts never will be shared. How much money you put on the table that doesn't matter. Ther is something they will learn, knowhow is something to be worked. And keeping that engine working you need industry that you never will achieve with this way.
And why that rush to buy urgent need for 110 billions weapons?
The purchase of 4 Littoral boats for $6 billion is a rip off.KSA wasting money should have bought from Russia China this time
KSA overpaid based on my many people's assessmentDo you really blame our Saudi brothers, if you have the money and you could buy from the best why won't you?
I only hope they had set aside some of that money to create two or three Universities like KAUST.
Lol,1.5 B dolloar or 2.0B for a frigate with only 8 SSM and 16 VLS, any difference? Are you from the royal family? Why be so mania?Did you do some math at school??
let's do it together...shall we??
Deal =6$Bill
Divided by 4 LCS= 6/4 = 1.5Bil
That's just to get out you low mathproblem...
But the main Answer here... is that 6bil$ IS NOT only for 4 ships... you get the armement/training/spare parts/and ToT...
A freedom class is aorund 400Mil$... only the ship...with nothing on it... so you get to add around 800Mil-1Bil$ per ship to add Armemant/parts/training AND ToT...
ps: You don't get to protect the royal family with LCS... neither by a 6Bil$ deal either ...try to grow up a little...and stay objective...will you...
It is not that easy. Getting ToT is one thing but having the capability to effectively absorbing this knowledge is another thing. If you don't have a decent industry, you won't be able to use or implement knowledge you've received. That's the main difference between KSA and Israel/Turkey/Iran today. ToT is cool but as long as Saudi Arabia doesn't have the industrial and scientific resources, nothing will change. That's why a good economy policy is even more important than any Tot agreement with the US.But isn't this how Turkey started its military industry through TOT deals with European countries and Israel and the US?
Dude, life is worthless. Without huge pour into the US pocket, color revolution could be easily incited by the CIAKSA overpaid based on my many people's assessment
Without KSA buying US debt, can **** with america. But that's just one part. Need to get rid of US' other lap dog japanDude, life is worthless. Without huge pour into the US pocket, color revolution could be easily incited by the CIA
but lot of low tier weapons are up to par when it comes to turkey, including corvettes, tanks light armored vehicles even short range air defense which is actually the major part of the billAmerican weapons are proven to be superior in quality they are much cheaper than the French products that are prices almost 5 times
there is no chance of absolute replacement of first tier US weapon systems .. Turkey & Pakistan you listed are light years away in terms of resources, knowledge and R&D. even china is not there yet and relies on borrowed technology and is decades away from anything that Russia or west puts on the shelf.
it is more or a publicity stunt to put something out as "local" and I agree with it in its spirit but thats not the alternative
The US selling KSA equipment is two fold:KSA could have got more firepower from Russia in lesser money russia could have offered them better destroyers of its new class than US freedom class
With 100 billion the Saudis could have got nuke subs too
Saudis are not sensible choosing weapons I'm hearing they are buying u 202 From Germany when U 214 the latest they can buy fact is anyone can bring KSA on its knees even after buying billion dollars toys but useless in war
No one knows how those ships will be equipped, they have never been sold before to anyone..and they won't be the same as the US Littoral corvettes, these will be Frigates albeit smaller than the big known frigates, because they will be packed with high-tech.. but let's wait and see the specs in time..Lol,1.5 B dolloar or 2.0B for a frigate with only 8 SSM and 16 VLS, any difference? Are you from the royal family? Why be so mania?
First of all, the $110 billion is spread on 10 years..second, it is apparently difficult to start its own Major defense industry (there is a lot of suspicion around, and one needs to be transparent, the Western powers have just too many agencies watching the rest of the world!), because you need ToT for that on top of having enough tech-educated people, institutes for R&D, enough tech savvy people who can absorb new technologies and improve on them, just to name a few requirements apart from a lot of money, obviously..One also needs to be politically stable and best of all if one has long term powerful friends and allies.. KSA has prepared itself economically, socially and politically (locally, regionally and internationally) for this, so it deserves to have everything it needs to defend itself against any eventuality.. The middle east has always been known as a hot spot..that is another point KSA had to think of when it was planning for its defense requirements..That is seriously a lot. Which nation in the world would need 110 billion dollars worth of weapons immediately? With this type of money, they can easily start up their own major defense industry (and keep it one of the top-budget in the world). They should seriously invest somewhere else.