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The Red Sea and and Persian Gulf are very shallow. Red Sea in particular has many coral reefs and underwater features that make submarine operation difficult. There is no real reason for Gulf navies to expand to a blue water force, they are unlikely to make foreign expeditions abroad that...

Barely any Saudi ground troops are engaged in Yemen. Maybe 20'000 at most. Various Hadi government forces are the main ground fighting force there. As for the topic, I don't know the future of these LAV vehicles considering Saudi Arabia's souring relationship with Canada. These may be short...

Democracy has zero correlation with prosperity or advancement.

Hope the Navy slows down a bit to digest the rapid influx of new ships. Possibly bolster its small ship numbers with more Fast Attack Craft.

AN-132 project was cancelled last year.

Except that this isn't true. There hasn't been any loss of ground since the campaign started years ago. The question isn't if Saudi Arabia can hold ground but rather if they can increase the pace of the advance. Then all militaries in the world are on the same boat so the UAE can be considered...

That can be said for nearly every army in the world. When was the last conventional war between relatively equal nations? Iran-Iraq War?

It is a pre-production version for testing the hull produced by CMN so it does not have weapons.

Several reasons: 1. Saudi is rich yes, but that doesn't mean infinite money. Saudi Arabia has been running budget deficits for several years as the need to diversify our economy away from oil will cost many billions, possibly trillions of dollars, to achieve. 2. Building a strong navy is more...

No, that much info is not enough for me. The scenario involves hunting a sub and not all sensors are designed to seek underwater targets. If I include a Dash-8 with only surface searching capabilities, it's not really useful to the player. In any case, mods please lock this thread. I just put...

I've never been to the Abu Dhabi airport so I can't tell if that is indeed that specific airport, can anyone confirm? Also, there are several questions: 1) Why wait a year to release the information? 2) The footage seems to be taken on cell phone cameras in pre placed locations. Does that...

In that case, shut down this forum if asking questions about Arab military in an Arab Defense forum is so off limits. I'm not asking for people to go and spy or anything like that, but if there is any open source info out there. If you must know, I wanted the information to do a scenario in the...

No it is not. Saudi Arabia does not want the airframe anymore. The direct quote from the President of Antonov https://www.janes.com/article/88169/an-132d-programme-stalls

Serious repercussions? No one is threatening Iran or the regime. Threatening the entire region with a bloody war because they blocked you selling oil because you are using that oil to fund wars in the region is the definition of dangerous regime. All Iran has to do is not fund proxies across...

The analysis is to put it lightly, wrong. A missile with a 1500+ pound warhead Warhead struck right next to a busy international airport and there was basically no real major effect on the ground or on flight delays is ludicrous. The only evidence they have is: A) There are no pictures of the...

I don't think anyone wants to escalate it till it becomes another 1980s Iran-Iraq Tanker War. The most likely tit for tat response is economic or diplomatic sanctions.

Guys, I know about the Fields Aviation Modification. I even linked the PDF in my first post. However, Provincial Aerospace was selected, not Fields. I can't find any information on what exactly Provincial does to upgrade the UAE Dash-8s.

From what I gather, the An-32 Platform as a whole has been dropped with another platform to take its place.

Back in 2009, the UAE upgraded some of its Bombrdier Dash-8 Q300s into Maritime Patrol Craft with all sorts of radars for spotting surface combatants. https://www.***************/high-performance-mission-systems-for-uae-maritime-patrol-aircraft-19796/ However, I can find no information on...

The tanker attack was allegedly done with exploding underwater drones. It's not a given that the Houthis are behind it, could be any of Iran's many proxies.