Lockheed Wins $933M to Build THAADs for US, Saudi Arabia

[The SC]

March 25, 2020

Lockheed Martin has won a $932.8 million contract for the production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor missiles for the US Missile Defense Agency and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

"Lockheed Martin Corp., Missiles and Fire Control, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded a $932.8 million modification contract to exercise an option for the production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and associated one-shot devices to support the US government (USG) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case requirements," the Pentagon in a statement.

In July 2019, the company was awarded $1.47 billion to build THAAD missile defense system for Saudi Arabia. The contract, the Pentagon had said then, brought the total value of the deal to $ 5.4 billion.

"The THAAD interceptors and associated one-shot devices will be procured under fixed-price incentive (firm target) contract line items. The value of this contract is increased from $5.3 billion to $6.3 billion," the statement released on Tuesday read.

The country had signed a letter of offer and acceptance with the US for the procurement of 44 THAAD missile systems for an approximate $15 billion in November 2018. A $2.4 billion deal for THAAD interceptor missiles was inked between the two parties in April last year.

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense is an anti-ballistic missile defense system made to shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
Work for the new contract expected to be completed by April 1, 2026.

https://www.defenseworld.net/news/2...uild_THAADs_for_US__Saudi_Arabia#.XnucdRa8bDs

 

[The SC]

 

[Baybars Han]

US is milking Saudis badly

 

[The SC]

US is milking Saudis badly

And Russia is milking Turkey badly..

 

[Ahmad Saleem]

US is milking Saudis badly

And it was such an embarassment when drones hit their oil field

 

[Oublious]

And Russia is milking Turkey badly..

Four systems for 2.5 billion dollar and lets see what you are paying?

6.3 billions....

 

[gangsta_rap]

Four systems for 2.5 billion dollar and lets see what you are paying?

6.3 billions....

your ancestors used to drink fermented horse milk
look in the mirror before trying to make such sad jokes

 

[Oublious]

your ancestors used to drink fermented horse milk
look in the mirror before trying to make such sad jokes

Nothing wrong to drinking milk, the differences is amreecans are drinking the milk. They are milking the saudies, that is the picture telling.

 

[Aspen]

Four systems for 2.5 billion dollar and lets see what you are paying?

6.3 billions....

lmfaooo

And it was such an embarassment when drones hit their oil field

An expensive embarrassment too

 

[ali_raza]

US is milking Saudis badly

man this thing is a beast of a system
inshallah allah keep saudia safe
this is great purchase

And it was such an embarassment when drones hit their oil field

there weren’t any systems in the area near iraq
it was operational error not systems error
no one expected something will come from that side all focus was on yemen
we did the same mistakes in abbotabad raid.
we had very less coverage on western side while more focus was on indian side

worst part is s400 is not as good as it seems
no wonder paf isn’t worried much about indian purchase of s400

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

US is milking Saudis badly

Yes, KSA should be begging the US to buy Patriots, engines or running off to Russia when rejected (despite over half a century of NATO servitude, sending mercenaries to Korea 15.000 km away to fight wars for imperial powers like cannon fodder and elsewhere) to buy the S-400 for an inflated price and false promises of "tech transfer" much like all the other Western tech transfers (those that are yet to arrive) that kickstarted the defense industry in Turkey to begin with.

Or wait a second, was it KSA that was sanctioned by the US for a few weeks just to see the Turkish currency turn into toilet paper and was it KSA that released Brunson under pressure? Is KSA hosting a NATO/US base that the same Americans are never going to leave if not wanting willing to?

But sure, THAAD, the best on the market that any country can buy, is a bad purchase when KSA is being attacked by ballistic missiles by the Houthis. Imagine if the PKK (a joke in comparison) had such weaponry and was aiming such missiles at Ankara and Istanbul. You would have no technology to destroy those incoming ballistic missiles.

Four systems for 2.5 billion dollar and lets see what you are paying?

6.3 billions....

Here we have another Turkified and Arabized Anatoli troll. Does this genius think that camels (the second most expensive animal in the world for millennia and used by every major civilization - even as cavalry in wars many millennia ago) is an insult or camel milk which is healthier than cow milk? Amounts to you "trolling" Arabs with horses even though the Arabian horse is the most famous, most influential and most expensive horse in human history. Stick to your Anatolian donkeys or wolves, lol!

your ancestors used to drink fermented horse milk
look in the mirror before trying to make such sad jokes

This idiot does not even know that camels are used by some Turkic nomads in Turkey to this day and that camel wrestling (I kid you not) is a sport in Turkey. That is PDF for you. A troll central.

man this thing is a beast of a system
inshallah allah keep saudia safe
this is great purchase


there weren’t any systems in the area near iraq
it was operational error not systems error
no one expected something will come from that side all focus was on yemen
we did the same mistakes in abbotabad raid.
we had very less coverage on western side while more focus was on indian side


worst part is s400 is not as good as it seems
no wonder paf isn’t worried much about indian purchase of s400

 

[Oublious]

Yes, KSA should be begging the US to buy Patriots, engines or running off to Russia when rejected (despite over half a century of NATO servitude, sending mercenaries to Korea 15.000 km away to fight wars for imperial powers like cannon fodder and elsewhere) to buy the S-400 for an inflated price and false promises of "tech transfer" much like all the other Western tech transfers (those that are yet to arrive) that kickstarted the defense industry in Turkey to begin with.

Or wait a second, was it KSA that was sanctioned by the US for a few weeks just to see the Turkish currency turn into toilet paper and was it KSA that released Brunson under pressure? Is KSA hosting a NATO/US base that the same Americans are never going to leave if not wanting willing to?

But sure, THAAD, the best on the market that any country can buy, is a bad purchase when KSA is being attacked by ballistic missiles by the Houthis. Imagine if the PKK (a joke in comparison) had such weaponry and was aiming such missiles at Ankara and Istanbul. You would have no technology to destroy those incoming ballistic missiles.



Here we have another Turkified and Arabized Anatoli troll. Does this genius think that camels (the second most expensive animal in the world for millennia and used by every major civilization - even as cavalry in wars many millennia ago) is an insult or camel milk which is healthier than cow milk? Amounts to you "trolling" Arabs with horses even though the Arabian horse is the most famous, most influential and most expensive horse in human history. Stick to your Anatolian donkeys or wolves, lol!



This idiot does not even know that camels are used by some Turkic nomads in Turkey to this day and that camel wrestling (I kid you not) is a sport in Turkey. That is PDF for you. A troll central.

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

What a clever Arabized and Turkified Anatoli. You are able to post some Farsi Mullah cartoons. Good boy.

In the real world KSA has had a trade surplus with the US for decades!

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5170.html

Trump warned Erdogan in letter: 'Don't be a tough guy' or 'a fool'

Pastor Brunson a free man:

Your Erdogan has been humiliated, milked and sanctioned left and right yet you are barking and trolling here along with your troll compatriot out of nowhere on the Arab section.

Keep crying and get lost!

 

[Oublious]

What a clever Arabized and Turkified Anatoli. You are able to post some Farsi Mullah cartoons. Good boy.

In the real world KSA has had a trade surplus with the US for decades!

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5170.html

Trump warned Erdogan in letter: 'Don't be a tough guy' or 'a fool'

Pastor Brunson a free man:

Your Erdogan has been humiliated, milked and sanctioned left and right yet you are barking and trolling here along with your troll compatriot out of nowhere on the Arab section.

Keep crying and get lost!

ahahah

Irrelevant post...

eat peanuts.....