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Former standard assault rifle of the Saudi Arabian Army. [10] [11] Machine guns; Heckler & Koch MG4 Germany: Light machine gun: 5.56×45mm NATO: Standard light machine gun of the Saudi Arabian Army. [citation needed] Rheinmetall MG3 West Germany: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO: Standard general-purpose machine gun of the Saudi ...
1.6 Saudi Arabia. 1.6.1 Land-based. 1.6.2 Aircraft. 1.6.3 ... List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by ...
The vast majority of Saudi Arabia's military equipment is imported from the Western world. [28] The United States sold more than $80 billion in military hardware between 1951 and 2006 to the Saudi military. [50] 2013 saw Saudi military spending climb to $67bn, overtaking that of the UK, France and Japan to place fourth globally. [51]
Despite this separation, the Maintenance Corps continued to fulfill its technical responsibilities, particularly in supplying the Saudi Arabian Army with modern equipment, vehicles, and spare parts. In 1382 AH (1963 CE), a program was initiated to manage military vehicles, leveraging the expertise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Saudi forces are equipped with mainly western equipment. Main suppliers to the RSAF are companies based in the United Kingdom and the United States. Both the UK and the US are involved in training programs conducted in Saudi Arabia. During the 1980s and 1990s, the armed forces of Saudi Arabia were relatively small by Middle Eastern standards.
In October 2017, SAMI signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russia's Rosoboronexport to manufacture military equipment in Saudi Arabia. [5] The agreement provides for the transfer of technology for the local production of the S-400, the Kornet-EM system, the TOS-1A, the AGS-30 and the Kalashnikov AK-103. [6] [7]
Saudi Arabia ranks among the top five nations in the world in government spending for its military, representing about 9% of GDP in 2013. Its modern, high-technology arsenal makes Saudi Arabia among the world's most densely armed nations, with its military equipment being supplied primarily by the United States, France, and Britain. [24]
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