Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Saudi Arabia

[Naval Strategist]

The possibilities are many for S/Ms procurements, the French and the Spanish have some good ones too, The Italians are willing to sell the type 212, and the Russians and Chinese have some very good ones now all of them with AIP technologies. i think the Germans will be willing to sell theirs to SA too. Although SA will want ToT with them. In this regard any country who can come up with a reputable and capable platform and offer ToT with it will win the contract. It is not like SA is stranded financially, it has multiple choices, and I do not believe that the West can block a submarine procurement program but for a UN sanctioned country. SA is not sanctioned, far from it, and very good S/Ms they will get in enough numbers to protect its long shores.

They got 70-100 personnel qualified and given watchkeeping in 2009-10, with a plan of induction of S/Ms. But their efforts to procure those submarines in 2010-11 have been blockened by economic moves of IMF powers