Saudi Arabia - Russia arms deals

Russia and Saudi Arabia signed a preliminary agreement on the supply of arms

As Ivan Safronov writes in his article "Russia and Saudi Arabia Charge their Arms With Conversations," published in today's issue of Kommersant, on Monday Sergei Chemezov, Director General of Rostek State Corporation, said that Russia and Saudi Arabia had signed a preliminary agreement providing for the supply of arms and equipment At $ 3.5 billion Moscow has repeatedly tried to enter the arms market of Riyadh. Contract packages were discussed up to $ 20 billion, but unlike Washington, Russia has never reached the conclusion of solid contracts with the Saudi. According to Kommersant's information, the intentions of the Saudi leadership in Moscow are to be understood at the end of the visit of King Salman al-Saud - it can take place before the end of the year.

Mr. Chemezov told about the talks on the deliveries of Russian weapons to Saudi Arabia in an interview with Tass. "We concluded a preliminary agreement for $ 3.5 billion." However, the Saudis have set a condition that the contract will come into force if we transfer some of the technology to them and open production in the territory of the kingdom, "the head of the state corporation said." We think what can be shared . The simplest thing is to build a plant for the production of small arms (the Kalashnikov concern .- "Kommersant"). " Officials of Rostech, Rosoboronexport and the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) refrained from additional comments on Monday.

According to two top managers of the defense industry enterprises, even initialing such an impressive package of contracts is not a guarantee of concluding solid agreements. Over the past decade and a half, Riyadh has shown interest in a wide range of Russian military products (from Mi-35M helicopters, T-90 tanks and BMP-3 infantry armored vehicles to the Antey-2500 and S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems). In an interview with Kommersant, Chemezov said that the Saudis constantly asked about the Iskander-E operational and tactical complex, but specified that it was on the list of products banned for export: "We are not going to make an exception for them" (see. "Kommersant" from June 3, 2016). Several times the sides managed to agree on the range of weapons, but Riyadh was not in a hurry to sign legally binding documents, focusing on arms purchases from the United States.

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dino00 wrote:Source: Russia Starts Delivering Solar Systems to Saudi Arabia(tos)

MOSCOW, April 10 - RIA News. Saudi Arabia received the first batch of Russian heavy flame-throwing systems "Solntsepek", a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.
The contract for the supply of country systems was signed in 2017.
As noted by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Russia and Saudi Arabia have agreed on the supply of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as Cornet-EM, TOS-1A Solneptek anti-tank missiles, AGS-30 grenade launchers and Kalashnikov assault rifles AK-103.
Later, the signing of the relevant agreements was confirmed by the director of the service, Dmitry Shugaev

https://ria.ru/20190410/1552540264.html

Money buys everything, specially morality

Well, if you respect sovereignty you have to admit countries doing things with it that may not be the best, and even then Russia is no guardian of World morality. I think it is better for all in the long term if Russia builds up good relations with Saudi Arabia and attract them to join the Euro-Asian block where a more levelled balance of forces will push towards pacific settlement of conflicts than simply turn their backs on them. They would loose out big in terms of oil market, big in terms of weapons sales and besides would push the country to stick with the US-Israeli side. Look how a different approach has worked with Turkey for instance. Russia demonstrated to have understanding for the country's needs and concerns and also to be reliable and is carving out a very important partnership which is a double win, for the own benefit and for NATO loss. Same going on with Saudi Arabia IMHO.

Photo of TOS-1A delivered to S.Arabia





Russia and Saudi Arabia have agreed on the supply of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as Kornet-EM, TOS-1A Solnepteks, AGS-30 grenade launchers and Kalashnikov AK-103 assault rifles.

miketheterrible wrote:Gee, if they are purchasing all of that (which will be in the billions of USD) funny how quiet the US is, eh?

Only S-400 is too big deal from all these