Saudi signs deal for 320 PAC-3 missiles

Saudi Arabia has gone ahead to sign a contract with Lockheed Martin for 320 PAC-3 missiles. The U.S. government cleared the country to buy 600 missiles in July.

MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system launcher
By Robert Barney, U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

A senior Lockheed official told Reuters that the Kingdom may accelerate its plans to buy the THAAD air defense system too.

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