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| Qatar to buy Patriot missiles in $11 bln deal: US officials | |
| 2014-07-15 | |
| [UK.FINANCE.YAHOO] Qatar plans to buy US Patriot missile batteries and Apache attack helicopters in a major arms deal worth about $11 billion, Pentagon brasshats said Monday. The sale would provide Qatar with roughly ten batteries for Patriot systems designed to knock out incoming missiles, as well as 24 Apache helicopters and 500 Javelin anti-tank missiles, officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. Qatar was investing in missile defense systems to counter what it sees as the threat from Iran across the Gulf, as Tehran has built up its missile arsenal, officials said. The weapons deal was the biggest for the United States in 2014 and came as Qatar weighs proposals in a fighter jet competition, with US aerospace firm Boeing vying against British BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation of La Belle France. "It's a good sign," said a senior defense official, referring to the arms sale and the prospects for the fighter jet bidding. "It's a pretty significant step." Qatar's minister of state for defense, Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, committed to the sale in a signing ceremony Monday in Washington after talks with his American counterpart, Chuck Hagel. The United States wants to preserve its role as "the defense provider of choice" for Qatar and other Gulf states, the official said.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 At the rate Globalist Obama is going you may be correct one day #1. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US SENATE APPROVES DOUBLING OF FUNDS FOR "IRON DOME". BILL WOULD PROVIDE US$621.60MILYUHN FOR ISRAELI MISSLE DEFENSE, INCLDUING US$351.0MILYUHN FOR ISRAEL ANTI-MISSLE SYSTEM. versus * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Business Insider] HAMAS HAS FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE ITS OWN ROCKETS, + THATS A BIG PROBLEM FOR ISRAEL. Israel's trade restrictions, naval blockade of Gaza all but useless or irrelevant as HAMAS is virtually independent of imported materials for rockets. Hamas can make + fire TEN INIDIGENOUS ROCKETS for every one shot down by Israel's ABM-BMD Sys. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-07-15 23:45 |
| #1 Are they afraid some of the missiles they bought for Hamas are gonna find their way to Qatar? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-15 11:54 |