US approves large tank sale to Saudi Arabia

Posted on 17 Aug 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

The US State Department has approved the sale of a large amount of military equipment to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Worth around $1.15bn, the sale is one of the largest single purchases of US defense systems ever made by the country. The deal encompasses the sale of over 150 M1 Abrams main battle tanks, 20 armoured recovery vehicles and additional heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, night vision equipment as well as a large amount of…

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