Alltogether, I don’t give a rat’s pattootie if another Arab/Muslim country ever gets a weapon from us. These freaking defense contractors had damned well better start delivering on building and delivering operationally capable weapons systems to our own military.
That means an F-35 that meets the performance specs set forth in the performance based contracts that were let. That means extending the lifetimes of critical platforms like A-10s and the other work horses and stopping with all this pushing for horseshit weapons systems of the future that require all of the future’s resources to even get working. DDG-1000? Pit it in a battle with conventional Burkes and a carrier battle group and see how it shakes out.
No more ARAB/MUSLIM sales -EVER.
Refusing to sell our merchandise to a long time ally, is madness. I would suggest that you look more closely at who the Saudis are fighting; and where that enemy of the Saudi’s stands in respect to American interests. (And by the way, do you think that Russia or China would not be very happy to fill in, with sales to the market you disdain? Or for that matter the French or Swedes? Not sure about the Swedes, of course, they have a wackier Government; but Saudi money works for most countries.)