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RSAF gets its first F-15SA

Nopes.

If Saudi Air Force EVER decided to confront Israel, they'll be decimated.

First, Saudi Radars are American-made...

America will give/or already has given all the source-codes and everything for Saudi Radars. Saudi radars won't even be able to pick Israeli jets (just like it happened in Egypt)..and Israelis will destroy 80% to 95% of these advance jets while they'll be sitting on ground.

Secondly, even in the air, Israeli planes will know everything about Saudi planes, their tactics, and their weaknesses etc..and then Israelis will just shoot down any Saudis left.

Remember Israeli Iraqi nuclear-reactor strike?

They flew right through Saudi Arabia..and Saudi "advance" Patriot missile system with its powerful radar could not even pick up Israeli jets..and that was 30 years ago. Today, Saudi radars and infrastructure is even more worthless against Israelis. Israelis know each and everything about it. And saudi radars won't be able to pick Israeli jets....

Saudi Air Power is to contain Iran.

Would you kindly provide a source to your story?

Cheers
 
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What am I hearing? Did you just made that up? For what reason? And on what basis? Since you have no military knowledge its better to keep it down don't you think? First, Saudi Radars aren't US made but French, German, Spanish...etc made. Mostly European. Second the Saudi AWACS be it the Sweden Saab or the E-3 are able to detect any flying bug in the region. There is no code whatsoever and the IFF is Saudi made just so you know. All the codes are encrypted and required pre-authorization setting.

Saudi Arabia openly threaten to shot down any Israeli jet that gets close KSA air space. In Saudi-Israel conformation whether air-air like a dogfight or air surface, Israel will lose badly. The Typhoon world's most advanced swing-role combat aircraft makes the whole Israel air fleet useless and the F-15SA is the most advanced F-15 in the world. Second Israel is the size of a pin tip lack geographical depth which makes its military airports and sits vulnerable to StormShadow missile like that can fly at 500km range. So the RSAF won't bother to launch these missiles far from home but from within our border given the distance b/t Tabuk air base and Israel.

Saudi Arabia is the size of Europe and isn't of that 30 years back where it had no Air defense. Today every inch of Saudi Arabia is monitored with the state of the art systems. Heck the RSAF jets are a flying radars themselves. You might wanna ask the Israelis about the two israeli jets that were forced to land by the RSAF and later shipped to the US. Or go to Mr Weeklies and read about the RSAF and the Israel PM private jet. If Israel fear no Saudi Arabia and can alter the Saudis own hardwares then it would have not lobbied against KSA-US and KSA-Germany arms deals and still lobbying till nowadays. The Saudis worth a lot in the world economical arena and on top of that can bill shower to get what it wants. So again Israel will go down the drain if ever eyes-on the Saudi.

Can you give us any data about Saudi Air Defence etc? As far as I know, ALL Saudi radars are of American origin...Moreover, Saudi AWACs are also E-3 Sentry which are American.

You might wanna ask the Israelis about the two israeli jets that were forced to land by the RSAF and later shipped to the US.

When did that happen? Any source?

@AUz

Good old conspiracy theory eh?

You think that the RSAF would just hand over 90 billion to the US to 'degrade' its capabilities?

If this was the case, why didn't RSAF just buy more Typhoon tranche IIIs, which can target anyone RSAF wants to target?

While this is true that some form of 'control' is built in these jets which either limits its capabilities or keeps track of the jet, i don't buy the source code theory.

No, 90 billion increased RSAF's capabilities...it is just that those capabilities can't be used against Israel effectively. In case of conflict, Americans will do everything they can to give Israelis an edge.. And giving every detail about American-made equipment to Israel would be the first step.

Americans will tell Israelis what kind of radars Saudis have and how to evade them/jam them effectively etc.

Saudis need to start building their own military machine by joint-ventures with Turkey, China, Pakistan, or even India etc.
 
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Can you give us any data about Saudi Air Defence etc? As far as I know, ALL Saudi radars are of American origin...Moreover, Saudi AWACs are also E-3 Sentry which are American.

When did that happen? Any source?

No, 90 billion increased RSAF's capabilities...it is just that those capabilities can't be used against Israel effectively. In case of conflict, Americans will do everything they can to give Israelis an edge.. And giving every detail about American-made equipment to Israel would be the first step.

Americans will tell Israelis what kind of radars Saudis have and how to evade them/jam them effectively etc.

Saudis need to start building their own military machine by joint-ventures with Turkey, China, Pakistan, or even India etc.

That is all based on what you would like to believe . Is there a shred of evidence to support your claims?
 
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Lo and behold this beauty.

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The photo doesn't show full plane.
 
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That is all based on what you would like to believe . Is there a shred of evidence to support your claims?

Well, you don't need any evidence to realize that if there is a conflict, Americans will do EVERYTHING to give Israel an edge. Right?

Then what makes you think that they won't share every detail of American-equipment in possession of KSA to make it easier for Israelis to plan counter strikes/jamming and etc.

American congress has official policy of "QME" for Israel. Take a hint....
 
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The photo doesn't show full plane.
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Well, you don't need any evidence to realize that if there is a conflict, Americans will do EVERYTHING to give Israel an edge. Right?

Then what makes you think that they won't share every detail of American-equipment in possession of KSA to make it easier for Israelis to plan counter strikes/jamming and etc.

American congress has official policy of "QME" for Israel. Take a hint....

I do know the narrative but your narrative has to be supported by hard facts to be taken seriously.
 
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What am I hearing? Did you just made that up? For what reason? And on what basis? Since you have no military knowledge its better to keep it down don't you think? First, Saudi Radars aren't US made but French, German, Spanish...etc made. Mostly European. Second the Saudi AWACS be it the Sweden Saab or the E-3 are able to detect any flying bug in the region. There is no code whatsoever and the IFF is Saudi made just so you know. All the codes are encrypted and required pre-authorization setting.

Saudi Arabia openly threaten to shot down any Israeli jet that gets close KSA air space. In Saudi-Israel conformation whether air-air like a dogfight or air surface, Israel will lose badly. The Typhoon world's most advanced swing-role combat aircraft makes the whole Israel air fleet useless and the F-15SA is the most advanced F-15 in the world. Second Israel is the size of a pin tip lack geographical depth which makes its military airports and sits vulnerable to StormShadow missile like that can fly at 500km range. So the RSAF won't bother to launch these missiles far from home but from within our border given the distance b/t Tabuk air base and Israel.

Saudi Arabia is the size of Europe and isn't of that 30 years back where it had no Air defense. Today every inch of Saudi Arabia is monitored with the state of the art systems. Heck the RSAF jets are a flying radars themselves. You might wanna ask the Israelis about the two israeli jets that were forced to land by the RSAF and later shipped to the US. Or go to Mr Weeklies and read about the RSAF and the Israel PM private jet. If Israel fear no Saudi Arabia and can alter the Saudis own hardwares then it would have not lobbied against KSA-US and KSA-Germany arms deals and still lobbying till nowadays. The Saudis worth a lot in the world economical arena and on top of that can bill shower to get what it wants. So again Israel will go down the drain if ever eyes-on the Saudi.



So much unfounded nonsense in this thread.
 
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@Aeronaut @Arabian Legend @Yzd Khalifa @al-Hasani@Hyperion

Hey gentlemen, one serious thing I was thinking about...

Saudi Arabia spends $56billion as defence budget...but where?! :blink:

Saudi Arabia has barely a thousand tanks (Countries like Pakistan/Israel have near 4000), around just 300 modern aircrafts, ZERO submarines, no destroyer, a small army (233,000, 25000 reserves), no ballistic missile force (let alone nuclear program), and so on.

Then how come Saudi budget is SO huge?

With this budget, Saudi Arabia should have been the absolutely dominant power of Arabia-Levant-North Africa region. Absolutely dominant military power! But Saudi Arabia is no way near that. Why?

Whats the catch?

Look at Indian Armed Forces....MASSIVE military machine of 1.3 million (almost 5x the size of Saudi military), very well-equipped (hundreds of Su-30MKIs, getting Rafaels, Mig-29Ks and so on), armed with thousands of tanks, many submarines, aircraft carriers, ballistic missile program, nuclear program, anti-ballistic missile program, and many more things..

But the budget of such massive hyper-size military is $40 billion!

But for Saudi Arabia to have $56 billion budget...What is the great missing link here bros?
 
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@Aeronaut @Arabian Legend @Yzd Khalifa @al-Hasani@Hyperion

Hey gentlemen, one serious thing I was thinking about...

Saudi Arabia spends $56billion as defence budget...but where?! :blink:

Saudi Arabia has barely a thousand tanks (Countries like Pakistan/Israel have near 4000), around just 300 modern aircrafts, ZERO submarines, no destroyer, a small army (233,000, 25000 reserves), no ballistic missile force (let alone nuclear program), and so on.

Then how come Saudi budget is SO huge?

With this budget, Saudi Arabia should have been the absolutely dominant power of Arabia-Levant-North Africa region. Absolutely dominant military power! But Saudi Arabia is no way near that. Why?

Whats the catch?

Look at Indian Armed Forces....MASSIVE military machine of 1.3 million (almost 5x the size of Saudi military), very well-equipped (hundreds of Su-30MKIs, getting Rafaels, Mig-29Ks and so on), armed with thousands of tanks, many submarines, aircraft carriers, ballistic missile program, nuclear program, anti-ballistic missile program, and many more things..

But the budget of such massive hyper-size military is $40 billion!

But for Saudi Arabia to have $56 billion budget...What is the great missing link here bros?

Quality over quantity my friend. Most of the budget is thrown into the Air Force which currently possess 72 Typhoons, 250+ F-15's and a little over 100 Tornado's.

While I know the Tornado's aren't exactly the most expensive of jets today (except for maintenance), those Typhoons must have cost easily $110-120 million per. Also, there aren't many weapons you can name which aren't in the arsenal of these planes. Everything from JDAMs to cruise missiles.

As far as I'm concerned, Saudi is a run by a bunch of <MOD EDIT> PLEASE REFRAIN FROM INSULTING OTHER NATIONALITIES <MOD EDIT>

But this money will only last a few short decades. Watch that defence budget dwindle over this time.
 
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Whats the catch?
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o_O

Oh, there is absolutely no trap : High quality of materials (The best of the best), spare parts, maintenance, training tens of thousands of men (US and in KSA), technology transfer (With ToT) throughout the lifetime of the equipment :

Air force (F-15SA, Eurofighter Typhoon and Tornado)

Saudi military spending and strategic capability - is there a disconnect? | Page 2

Iraq F16 Blk 52's slightly inferior | Page 4

Saudi Advanced Electronic Company gains approved avionics repair status for Typhoon jets

Saudi Air, Land, Naval Forces & SANG | Page 161



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looks like you dont know Islamic history ...

Why don't you attack India and free Kashmir or Palestine yourself? Or help your Afghan brother's who are massacred on a daily basis? Or stop those American drone attacks from happening that are killing dozens of innocent Pakistanis?

Or just stop worrying about Arab affairs like most others here who are obsessed about the ancient Arab world.

Nobody, especially countries that do not even border Israel, are going to war against a nuclear power just because of 200 casualties partially due to the idiotic policies of Hamas and their senseless pipe rockets that only endanger Palestinian lives.

Nobody can question Arab military history. Arabs founded 3 of the 11 largest empires in human history. More than any other ethnic group. Our influence is felt all across the Muslim world on almost every parameter.

Our Arab region was the center of the world for thousands of years and home to the first civilizations on earth and also during the Islamic ages and the nearly 1000 years of Arab rule of the Caliphate during it's greatest times culturally, in terms of conquest (by far), science, architecture etc. Now we live in largely bad times but glory will return once again.

Whether foreigners (that most Arabs don't care about especially the ignorant ones) want this or not.

In short stick to the topic and quit trolling. Nobody cares. Go pollute another section of the forum.
 
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looks like you dont know Islamic history ...

Oh, we know Islamic history very well as none other than the Arabs formed and shaped it more or ruled the Islamic world longer. By far. Especially in terms of military conquests and the spread of Islam.

Thank you very much.

Regarding your comment about leaders then don't throw stones when you live in a glass house. That goes for ALL Muslim leaders.

RSAF is undoubtedly one of the strongest air forces out there and how and when it should be used is the sole decision of KSA and not foreigners. Not even other fellow Arabs.

RSAF serves KSA. That's its primary task. To protect KSA and it's people.

KSA is not going to risk years of progress (especially since 2005) just to enter a devastating war against a nuclear power that would have big consequences for KSA economically, politically, militarily (potentially) etc. Especially not when no other Muslim country is doing anything.

Nobody but the Israelis and Palestinians will solve their problems. It's after all their problems.

Now stick to the topic.

@Arabian Legend @JUBA @Yzd Khalifa @Full Moon @Hadbani @BLACKEAGLE etc.
 
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