{"id":5366,"date":"2017-10-07T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2017-10-07T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:14:26","slug":"us-approves-15-billion-sale-of-thaad-missiles-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-approves-15-billion-sale-of-thaad-missiles-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves $15 billion sale of THAAD missiles to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US agrees to sell THAAD missile defense to Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $15 billion sale of Lockheed Martin Corp.\u2019s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile interceptors, launchers and radar to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The THAAD deal was a core part of the $110 billion weapons sale offering presented by U.S. President Donald Trump during a May 20 visit to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis sale furthers US national security and foreign policy interests, and supports the long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the face of Iranian and other regional threats,\u201d the Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Security Cooperation agency said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia has requested a potential sale of 44 THAAD launchers, 360 missiles, 16 Fire Control and Communications Mobile Tactical Stations, and seven AN\/TPY-2 radars made by Raytheon Co. The package also includes maintenance equipment, 43 trucks, generators, electrical power units, trailers, communications equipment, tools, test and maintenance equipment and spares.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the THAAD system, with Raytheon playing an important role in the system&#8217;s deployment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposed Saudi sale underscored lasting U.S.-Saudi defense cooperation at a time when Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, with deals announced on arms sales as well as energy. Saudi-owned al Arabiya television reported on Thursday that the kingdom had agreed to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US has already supplied the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s neighbours Qatar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">THAAD has also ben deployed in to South Korea this year to guard against North Korea&#8217;s shorter-range missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US agrees to sell THAAD missile defense to Saudi Arabia The U.S. State Department has approved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1,125],"tags":[6,356,31,101,113,305,7],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-united-states","tag-defense","tag-middle-east","tag-missile","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-security","tag-thaad","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Terminal-High-Altitude-Area-Defense-THAAD.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1oy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}