Well, to me it looks more like a parade with a couple of tank safe exercise rounds fired into the adjacent desert. Does not look like a military exercise. In a military exercise you have red and blue teams going after each other simulating war. This is just a parade. Though I must admit, the pictures are beautiful and choreography above average. Most probably it is a high end Cannon or Nikon. Anyways, if permitted to constructively object, I would say, it is nothing more than a fashion show with only internal consumption utility. The reals of power of Saudi Arabia has never been because of its armed forces or its home grown industries. That power comes directly from Washinton DC.
As clearly as
historical documents can show us, all that military hardware is given, maintained and operated by United States to keep Saud regime secured in order to have petrodollar recycling pumps running and sucking the pulp out of the world's population. Muslim or not. But for Muslims it is even worse. This army of compromise created to keep a tribal family from Nejd in power over Hijaz, has never in its history stood along side other Muslim armies. Even today, it is the case. When Gaza or Lebanon gets bombed, it is not the Saudi regime military that comes to aid of those Muslims. They never train Palestinians and give them hardware to defend themselves against aggressors. These are factual points that have to be kept in mind while looking at these pictures.
Then there is the reality of military and the realities of war. The Saudi regime military as
per expert analysis is not deadly or even disciplined enough to carry itself around a battle field. It would always need foreign guides to help it through. As history is the witness, when better disciplined Saddam army was at the gates of Saudis, the Saudi regime army run away and no reinforcement could be sent because no one wanted to go to the front. In modern military this act amounts to treason. Saudi regime opted to bring in US to defend the regime. But to save face, they blame their innate weaknesses and shortcomings on others.
For example during the Kuwait war, Iraqi forces took over the town of Khafji in northeast Saudi Arabia after the Saudis had evacuated the place. General Khalid bin Sultan, the Saudi ground forces commander, requested a letter from General Norman Schwarzkopf, stating it was the U.S. general who ordered an evacuation from the Saudi town.
Such a military with such commanders during a real war can not function at any rate or by any imagination. Only highly motivated and disciplined officers of high caliber can push forward through a battle. Those who rely on foreign guidance and face saving are not really in the game. Be it real war, a parade or even a military exercise. So just putting an Islamic name on anything will not make it so. You have to look beyond that to see what is happening in reality.