Our US Presidents and Russia helped get them this arsenal. What will they eventually do with it?
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! Have these plans considered global warming!!!!
I don’t think Saudi Arabia HAS 20K tanks, much less crews for them.
From the article: Termed “The Northern Thunder”, the drill will continue for 18 days. The aim of the exercise is to send the message that Saudi Arabia and its allies “stand united in confronting all challenges and preserving peace and stability in the region”. Neither the US nor any Western nation is part of the event.
I wonder if now, for the first time in human history, Arabs can enforce peace in their region.
Seems like Saudi Arabia is having trouble beating Yemen.
Boy, if the Saudis do something stupid and lose those toys, the oily Kingdom would be in a world of hurt.
IIRC- there was an article posted in the last week that got pulled (Limited Nuclear War Within 18 days as Saudis Mass 350,000 Troops) discussing this too.
20,000 tanks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_Army
Lots of info here on what the Saudis have.
Looks like 442 M1A2S Abrams as front line tanks, with 600 M60 Patton and French AMX-30 as reserve unit vehicles.
Saudi’s currently have a total of 1,200 tanks, 490 combat aircraft, and 224 helicopters in inventory (not sure how many are actually functional).
“More than 2,500 warplanes, 20,000 tanks and 450 helicopters will be part of the exercise.”
R/C convention. No drones allowed.
Well this could get interesting.
My first reaction on reading this was “About time”.
My second reaction was “This could be very bloody and long.”
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typical number inflation in Muslim reports.
This is an invasion force. Has there ever been a “exercise” involving the equivalent of perhaps two or three field armies except perhaps in the PRC since the end of the Cold War?
Hardware means nothing if the men running it are cowards and perverts.
Spending gobs of money when the price of oil is way down. Losers.
SA is probably the one national government that could possibly be trusted to only use that power for self-defense. All they want is to stay in power and collect many billions every year, and avoid the usual Muslim violence (most often by capitulating to it, but ISIS and Obama’s Arab Spring have not been looking cooperative anymore).
The Russians will *have* to oppose this for economic reasons.
I think the numbers cited are ridiculous, but if we ignore all of that and read it as ‘major Saudi military move into Syria’, this is really bad news.
We were just hearing about the Turks threatening to enter Syria, too. So...some kind of pan-Islamic action to push Russia out, topple Assad, install a Saudi-friendly regime, build natural gas pipeline to the Euro energy market and undersell the crap out of the Russians, maybe?