“There are some technical challenges to being able to share it, but ultimately, it's really an authority….We can at least pick up a phone and relay that there is a threat inbound,” Maj. Gen. Clark Quinn, the deputy commander of Ninth Air Force, Air Forces Central.
If Saudi Arabia want to send a signal to Washington without really endangering the American-Saudi security relationship, they'll limit their arms deals with Russia to smaller - or even token - orders of relatively benign equipment.
With potential adversaries no longer predictable, training must move beyond just live exercises and flight simulators.
A new variant of the Houthi’s Burkan missile has a range of at least 1,200 km, putting almost all of Saudi Arabia within range of the Northern Yemeni rebels, posing a new threat to the kingdom. Ansar Allah, as the Houthis are formally known, released footage in August 2019 of a new ballistic missile, called […]
A record number of ballistic missile and drone attacks have tested Saudi air defense capabilities. They've succeeded admirably but at a high cost.