KSA, France to sign billions in ship, plane, nuclear deals

[Saif al-Arab]

None between Pakistan and KSA!

Fat chance!

They do not like our junk.

Really? Do you have a clue about KSA-Pakistani cooperation on the nuclear field, financial, political etc. support? Not everything is made public.

Which "junk" and like what?

Oh they were bitching about our no interest in Yemen

KSA was not "bitching" about anything and it was always about a symbolic amount of troops (very small) and only those with expertise in mountain warfare but since Pakistan is "neutral" the discussion is pretty much over now.

Our fight with the Houthi terrorist cult has been on-going for over 3 months now and we are on our own along with Arab allies.

 

[Dubious]

KSA was not "bitching"

Then what was the media doing day in and day out?

symbolic amount of troops

Getting our people killed is not a symbol ...We agreed to protect the 2 holy cities THAT was the symbol!

Pakistan is "neutral" the discussion is pretty much over now.

Thank god!

Our fight with the Houthi terrorist cult has been on-going for over 3 months now and we are on our own along with Arab allies.

Who started it? I dont mean the war but I mean the going back and forth of getting people killed!

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Then what was the media doing day in and day out?


Getting our people killed is not a symbol ...We agreed to protect the 2 holy cities THAT was the symbol!


Thank god!


Who started it? I dont mean the war but I mean the going back and forth of getting people killed!

Show me 1 single "bitching" comment from KSA. Please go on.

In wars those things can happen but allies tend to engage in that "business" too.

I don't personally object to it at all.

The Houthi terrorist cult along with the Saleh crook (former Yemeni dictator) by making a illegal coup d'état in Yemen (condemned by the UN), by threatening KSA and mobilizing forces in the border regions of KSA to attack it.

In any case less than 40 Saudi Arabian martyrs have died while over 2000 Houthi terrorists have been killed.

Anyway this has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

 

[RAMPAGE]

Really? Do you have a clue about KSA-Pakistani cooperation on the nuclear field, financial, political etc. support? Not everything is made public.

Which "junk" and like what?

Not talking about nuclear umbrellas.

Like our defence industry. You guys waste so much money on western equipment when half of it can be bought from Pakistan.

You guys can get everything with generous tech transfer.

 

[Oracle]

I though Europe was against KSA because of human right issue
Well power of money

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Not talking about nuclear umbrellas.

Like our defence industry. You guys waste so much money on western equipment when half of it can be bought from Pakistan.

You guys can get everything with generous tech transfer.

KSA supported Pakistan's nuclear program financially and politically. I also believe that there has been cooperation between Pakistani and Saudi Arabian nuclear scientists but we just don't know about it in public at least. KSA is very secretive about such topics.
If KSA can cooperate on this field with countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, France, USA and now even Russia then why not with a close ally historically such as Pakistan? It would make no sense if that was not the case IMO.

Buying the best weapons that you can buy is not "wasting money" because KSA and GCC has almost too much money already.

All that is happening but it is not something that is done overnight.

I also hope that KSA/GCC/Arab world and Pakistan can start to cooperate much more closely on the field of military hardware. I have spoken about this for years so I am by no means against it but I don't believe that there is zero cooperation.

Also nobody can deny that the US has the best military hardware that you can buy and this is why they are the biggest arms exporter in the world (by far) and why even Western European countries (industrialized) buy American weapons in great numbers too.

Lucikly for them they are located in Europe which has been peaceful largely for the past 20 years unlike KSA which is located in the middle of the ME.

I though Europe was against KSA because of human right issue
Well power of money

LOL. In such a case (by European standards) Europe would not be able to trade with almost anyone outside of the West. Let alone China.

Fact of the matter, GCC-Western trade is tremendous and so are the mutual investments in both regions and that's great. Let each region do what it wants to do in terms of internal policies (as long as it is not breaking any international laws) and develop in their own way. World politicians know that.

 

[Echo_419]

No, I understood perfectly well what you wrote and what you wrote is inaccurate and based on a lack of knowledge about the subject at hand. KSA cooperating with several leading nuclear powers in the nuclear energy sector does not mean that KSA will not COORDINATE the knowledge gained from that cooperation when building the nuclear reactors and the necessary infrastructure to gain full self-sufficiency.

Also if you had actually bothered to read the articles closely as I told you, you would have noticed the following details before commenting:

"Another Al Arabiya News source with access to the details of the deal also revealed that apart from a billion dollars set aside for direct purchases, the remaining $11 billion are going to take the form of a direct investment and that all deals were negotiated between officials directly without any middlemen.

“The Saudis bought the helicopters because they were reasonably priced but they did decline other offers,” added the source."

"PARIS: Saudi and French officials are finalizing negotiations on contracts for patrol ships, border guard helicopters, planes and two possible nuclear reactors worth more than $12 billion."

Anyway I am engaged in a silly and unnecessary discussion with yet another Iranian user. I thought that you were one of the few more serious Iranian users.

Good news for the region & the world

 

[RAMPAGE]

Buying the best weapons that you can buy is not "wasting money" because KSA and GCC has almost too much money already..

Now that right there, is the wrong attitude i'm talking about. Anything produced in-house is always better than import.

Take our JF-17 as an example, BLK 3 with Full FBW, AESA, HMD, HOBS, IRST and composites will be much much better than our F-16 blk 50.

We can do whatever we like with the aircraft.