US Foreign Military Sales

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2287354.html

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The State Department approves a $3.51 billion possible FMS to #SaudiArabia for (48) CH-47F Chinook Cargo Helicopters


The State Department approves a $3.5 billion possible FMS to the #UAE for (28) AH-64E Remanufactured Apache Helicopters + (9) new AH-64E


The State Department approves a $781 million possible FMS to #Qatar for the C-17 logistics support services & spare engines


More than $40 billion worth of arms sales with @BoeingDefense have been approved by the State Department in less than a month

U.S. nears $100 billion arms deal for Saudi Arabia: White House official

The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the arms package could end up surpassing more than $300 billion over a decade to help Saudi Arabia boost its defensive capabilities while still maintaining U.S. ally Israel's qualitative military edge over its neighbors.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-saudi-idUSKBN18832N?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59167ee704d30127af6d40de&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

US plans to supply Afghanistan with 159 helicopters UH-60A Black Hawk

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2620635.html

US plans to supply Nigeria with 12 Super Tucano

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) on August 2, 2017, sent a notice to the US Congress about the planned forthcoming sale of Nigeria through the inter-governmental foreign military sales of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 12 turboprop light attack aircraft (training aircraft) Embraer A-29 (EMB-314) Super Tucano. The notice states that the US State Department has already given permission for this sale.

The estimated cost of delivery will be $ 593 million, including the cost of armament (indigestible), ground equipment, spare parts, technical support and training. The Sierra Nevada Corporation Centennial is the general contractor for the supply, so that the delivery of the Super Tucano will be carried out in the same way as the supply of these aircraft to Afghanistan and Lebanon - with their assembling from car kits at Sierra Nevada and Embraer joint venture in Jacksonville (state Florida).

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2771190.html

The contract for 150 light combat helicopters MD 530F for Afghanistan

The US Department of Defense reported that on August 31, 2017, the US Army issued to US company MD Helicopters a contract worth $ 1.395497987 billion to manufacture 150 light military helicopters MD 530F for the subsequent delivery to Afghanistan through the inter-governmental military sales of Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The schedule of work should be determined by specific orders for the supply of lots of these helicopters, but production must be completed by August 31, 2022.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/2833018.html

The Trump administration has decided to unfreeze $195 million (147.97 million pounds) in military aid to Egypt which it had previously withheld because of concerns over Egypt’s human rights record, a U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday.

The decision to allow Cairo to use the previously blocked funds is intended to recognise “steps Egypt has taken over the last year in response to specific U.S. concerns” and in the spirit of strengthening the partnership with Egypt, the official said.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52543:us-lifts-restrictions-on-195-million-in-military-aid-for-egypt-&catid=7:Industry&Itemid=116

What a load of shit.

They could give a flying fuck about Egypts human rights record...

Military aide is a sham... it is a loan that can only be used to buy US weapons... it is a loan to the US MIC.

US stopped supplying Pakistan with AH-1Z combat helicopters

As the AirForces Monthly magazine reported, the United States refused to transfer to Pakistan 12 Bell AH-1Z Viper helicopters already manufactured for Pakistan Army aviation. Although the transfer of helicopters to the previously agreed schedule by the Pakistani side was expected in August 2018, now all 12 AH-1Z helicopters built for Pakistan have been transferred for temporary storage at the 309th US Air Force group (309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group - AMARG) at a known storage base Davis-Montand (Arizona).

This is due to the decision of the US government adopted in January 2018 to stop military assistance to Pakistan for political reasons - primarily because of the insufficiently active, according to the Americans, actions by the Pakistani side against the Taliban and radical Islamist groups in the border areas with Afghanistan. In September 2018, the US Department of Defense confirmed that $ 300 million intended for military assistance to Pakistan in the 2018 fiscal year were frozen and will now be redirected to other purposes. The delivery of AN-1Z helicopters to Pakistan was to be financed precisely at the expense of American military aid.

From the side of bmpd, we recall that Pakistan became the first actual foreign customer of AH-1Z combat helicopters, which are the last derivation of the famous family of American combat helicopters Bell AH-1 Cobra. In April 2015, a notification was issued to the United States Department of Defense Defense Cooperation Agency (DSCA) to the United States Congress about the planned upcoming delivery of Pakistan through intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 15 helicopters AH-1Z AGM-114R Hellfire II missiles, with a total planned value of $ 952 million. However, in fact, the relevant agreements were concluded to supply Pakistan with only 12 AH-1Z helicopters and, at a lower cost, an agreement to supply the first three helicopters etov was concluded in August 2015 and the agreement for the supply of a further nine - in April 2016, with the delivery of helicopters AH-1Z Pakistan was supposed to be carried out in respect of funding under the American military aid. Helicopters for Pakistan were manufactured at the Bell plant in Amarillo (Texas) from August 2017 to mid-2018 (Pakistani board numbers from 786-061 to 786-072), but as a result, Pakistan was not transferred.

It should be noted that in April 2018, DSCA was notified about the planned sale of 12 AH-1Z helicopters through FMS to Bahrain, with an estimated cost of $ 911.4 million. It is possible that this is a resale of helicopters made for Pakistan to Bahrain.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3402691.html

See nothing wrong in those measures.

No longer an ally no longer aid bribes. Kinda natural.

Bahrain has signed an agreement to acquire 12 American AH-1Z combat helicopters

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3416574.html

On July 8, 2019, the United States Department of Defense Defense Cooperation Agency (DSCA) sent to the US Congress notice of a possible forthcoming sale to Taiwan through intergovernmental military sales of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of 108 main M1A2T Abrams tanks, as well as 250 portable FIM-92F Stinger Block I anti-aircraft guided missiles. Sale authorized by the US Department of State. The official recipient of the specified weapons and equipment in the notifications is the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington, which serves as the official representative of the Republic of China in the United States.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3702554.html

China will see this as a very hostile act... which it basically is...

The US government officially approved the delivery of 66 F-16V fighters to Taiwan

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3745652.html

In the middle of a trade dispute between China and the US, sending weapons to Taiwan is more sending a message... a message that Obama didn't want to send when he was in office...

Notifications of the possible sale to the Philippines of American combat helicopters AH-1Z and AN-64E

On April 30, 2020, the US Department of Defense Agency for Defense Cooperation (DSCA) sent notifications (here and here) to the U.S. Congress about the possible upcoming sale of six combat helicopters to the Philippines through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales (FMS) of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Two possible types are Bell AH-1Z Viper or Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian.

The notification of the possible sale to the Philippines of six Bell AH-1Z Viper combat helicopters provides for the supply to them of only a small amount of weapons for combat training tasks - six AGM-114 Hellfire II guided missiles, 26 caliber 70 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) missiles mm and 5000 cannon semi-armor-piercing shells of 20 mm caliber. As a result, the total cost of the estimated delivery is estimated at $ 450 million.

In contrast, the announcement of the possible sale to the Philippines of six Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian combat helicopters gives the total cost of the estimated delivery of $ 1.5 billion, since it includes a significant amount of aviation weapons - 200 AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, 300 APKWS missiles and 1700 guidance sets for the conversion of 70 mm unguided missiles into APKWS, 5000 unguided 70 mm caliber rockets, 200 FIM-92H Stinger air-to-air missiles, 80 thousand 30 mm cannon shells, as well as a significant number of various types of training ammunition. Helicopters must be equipped with Longbow radar.

It should be noted that notifications by DSCA to the U.S. Congress of a potential FMS sale are required by U.S. law and do not mean that agreements will be necessarily concluded, although they do indicate that the U.S. Department of Defense received an official request for a possible supply from the relevant national government.

Recall that the government of the Philippines in the past few years plans to purchase combat helicopters. In 2019, Jordan donated two old American Bell AH-1S Cobra combat helicopters delivered to the Philippines in November to the Philippines from its Air Force. At the end of 2018, it was announced that the Air Force Phillippin Technical Working Group (TWG) recommended the purchase of eight Turkish Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) T129 ATAK combat helicopters. However, it can be assumed that due to the difficulties encountered by the Turkish side in connection with the supply of T129 ATAK helicopters to Pakistan under the 2018 contract (until now, the United States has refused to grant Turkey an export license for the supply of American LHTEC CTS800-4AT turbojet engines installed in T129 to Pakistan ), The Philippines decided to refocus on the acquisition of new combat helicopters in the United States.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4013224.html

The United States again wants to sell the UAE 4569 MRAP armored vehicles out of stock

On May 7, 2020, the US Department of Defense Agency for Defense Cooperation (DSCA) sent a notice to the U.S. Congress about the possible upcoming sale of 4569 MRAP armored vehicles from the United States Emirates Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) from the presence of the American army. The sale will be carried out under the sale of surplus military property Excess Defense Articles (EDA). The total cost of the proposed delivery, including spare parts, technical support and training, will be $ 556 million.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4021032.html

Morocco has concluded an agreement to purchase 24 Boeing AH-64E Apache helicopters

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4070499.html

Wonder if this will actually last 10 years

The biggest defense and aerospace company in the world, Lockheed Martin, now plans to ‘commoditize’ its F-16 fighter jets to aid in the Foreign Military Sales and simplify the acquisition process.

Last month, the U.S. government awarded the company with a whopping $62-billion contract for indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ), fixed-price-incentive contract for the production of F-16 Foreign Military Sale (FMS) aircraft over the next ten years.

The F-16 is one of the most widely produced fighter jets in the world comprising 16% of the global fleet- more than double compared to its competitor, the Russian Su-27/30 and variants.

https://geopolitics.news/south-asia/us-defence-giant-lockheed-martin-to-commoditize-f-16s-aims-to-sell-f-21-jets-to-india/