Gulf states approved for $1.3 billion in US munitions purchases in 2018
Gulf states have traditionally been keen buyers of western, mainly US, military equipment. A number of possible recent programmes and ongoing procurement processes demonstrate the demand and possible reliance on external industrial capabilities to meet internal demands.
In April 2018 the US president signed a national security policy memorandum announcing a revised conventional arms transfer (CAT) policy in a bid to increase defence exports. Globally, FMS sales figures hit just short of $42 billion in 2017, a figure comfortably surpassed in the first seven and a half months of 2018.
However, away from the big tickets items and prospects for
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