Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Saudi Arabia Pleads With Washington For Patriot Missile Defence Resupply

A member of the US airforce near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan air base in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia, on 20 February 2020 (AFP)  

Middle East Eye: Saudi Arabia 'pleads' for US Patriot missiles amid Houthi aerial barrage 

Weekly ballistic missile and drone strikes against the kingdom said to have left it with worryingly low arsenal 

Saudi Arabia has urgently requested hundreds more Patriot interceptors from the US, as well as from Gulf and European allies, as it battles against weekly ballistic missile and drone strikes launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels, according to a US newspaper. 

Rebel Houthis have repeatedly launched cross border attacks on Saudi Arabia using drones and missiles since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 after the movement ousted the government from the capital Sanaa. 

The coalition said on Tuesday that it bombed military targets in Sanaa after the Houthis launched ballistic missiles and armed drones into Saudi Arabia, including at Aramco oil facilities in Jeddah.  

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Update #1: Saudis ask for US help as missile defense arsenal runs low (NYPost)  

Update #2: Saudi pleads with US for missile defence resupply: Report (Al Jazeera)  

WNU Editor: The Yemen war continues to grind on .... Saudi coalition bombs Sanaa in tit-for-tat violence with Houthis (Reuters).

4 comments:

B.Poster said...

Perhaps the US won't sell it to them. I would think they could use oil or other leverage against the US to force our government to sell it to them. If not, I'm 9tetty sure the Saudis can obtain similar tech elsewhere or develop it internally.

The US can't afford to give out any "freebies" right now. Our resources are very limited and extremely stretched.

Jac said...

Saudi's can pay, we just have to acknowledge that Houthi is a terrorist organization.

Amp1776 said...

All that oil, and no pacs. Good time to discuss oil production.

Adam said...

So sell it. They pay well.