On Tuesday, the State Department approved two potential arms deals to Saudi Arabia and the UAE worth over $5 billion combined.
The sale to the Saudis is for Patriot surface-to-air missiles and is worth an estimated $3.05 billion. The principal contractor for the Patriot deal is Raytheon, the former employer of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
According to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the Patriots are meant to “defend the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s borders against persistent Houthi cross-border unmanned aerial system and ballistic missile attacks.”
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