Saudi Arabia wants to have its own developed military industry

The Saudi Arabian General Administration of War Industry has confirmed that the kingdom will increase its support for research over the next ten years to get Riyadh's own defense technology, Arab News writes. In addition, the country has set the task of creating its own developed defense industry.

Currently, the kingdom authorities spend 0,2 percent of the military budget on these needs, but in the coming years they will seek to significantly increase this figure. There is an understanding that any industrial sector can exist only if there are significant and sustainable research and technology programs that will stimulate educational initiatives and human capital in general.

It is assumed that by 2030 the share of local military industry in supplies for defense needs will increase from 5 to 50 percent. The first and most important advantage of such localization, as the publication notes, is the strengthening of Saudi Arabia's strategic independence, its national security, and combat readiness.

The economic and social effect will include the creation of a sector with a total value of over 30 billion Saudi reais (8 billion dollars) by 2030 and the contribution to the GDP of a “renewed country independent of oil export”. Today, Saudi Arabia has the third largest military budget in the world, after the United States and China, and is the largest importer. weapons.

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[Lexus]

Saudi Arabia wants to have its own developed military industry

The plans of those who have Saudi Arabia are not included.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: lexus

Saudi Arabia wants to have its own developed military industry

The plans of those who have Saudi Arabia are not included.

The hidden meaning of your comment - you will not reveal? Because not hidden it definitely isn’t

[Vladimir16]

Hedgehog it is clear that the Saudis may want anything, but they exist within the framework established by the United States.
What other hidden meaning are you looking for, Golovan Jack?
Americans have Saudis. What do not you understand?

What did the Saudis create?
Oil?
They have nothing more.

[ltc35]

And most importantly, there is no desire and ability to work with hands and head. Who will go to work for them in the defense industry? There will only be those who want to steer. There are a thousand princes, the rest live on rent. Is it necessary for the Bedouins to move their brains and hands?

[Thrall]

Saudi Arabia's Military Industry (2018)

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[Vladimir16]

Looked at the link ...
Not a single picture.
Bullshit.
I did not read.


Read ...
It is planned, planned, etc. etc.
To dream is not harmful.

[Private-K]

The question is, WHO will work for the Saudi defense industry. The Saudis themselves can only manage and bookkeeping. And the engineering staff? And who will the workers be? Will they bring the Pakistanis? Or just the Vietnamese?

[Greg Miller]

To have your own military-industrial complex, you need to have your own civilian industry, many times greater than the military-industrial complex, a trained personnel reserve, a full range of educational institutions ... and not just desire, money and 2-3 thousand crown princes ...

[nPuBaTuP]

Who will go to work for them in the defense industry?

Yes, the same kakly or other renegades from the former fraternal republics ....

[alexmach]

Is it necessary for the Bedouins to move their brains and hands?

In principle, they can easily hire gasturbaters. How productive it is for defense is another conversation.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Vladimir16

What other hidden meaning are you looking for, Golovan Jack?

Are you Lehus? Or his guardian? Question to Lehus directly.

Quote: Vladimir16

No brainer that ...

Ummm ... I don’t know what you understand with a hedgehog, but

Quote: Vladimir16

You look forGolovan Jack

- this, my friend, is a wish. But not a question. Go through the forest, learn Russian, how to learn - go

[Demon_is_ada]

Allah created the oil ... they only create the Saudis according to the long-proven well-known technology I suggest that they create for starters a royal deserted fleet, the basis of which will be a camel-carrier - a desert ship with a service team sitting on it in the form of a Saudi with a falcon, and beyond - two EI !!! (natural intelligence in the carrier and falcon). Mustache as a host Well, there is still a warrant for camellers, camelcors, camelmins ...
Py ssy seem oil ends, and the discontent of neighbors has long been at the limit ...

[orionvitt]

All this is of course interesting, but one question remains. Their hands have grown to create something?

[iConst]

Quote: lexus

The plans of those who have Saudi Arabia are not included.

Comes in, doesn't come in, everything flows, everything changes. The Saudis have doubts that the United States will cover them for the foreseeable future. No wonder they are already feeling the soil from all sides.

[Amin_vivec]

The world's third military budget mainly goes to the United States as rent for "ensuring security" and "overlooking" the fact that the SA is an open tribal despotism, in which human rights are observed only for a certain segment of the population))) The Saudis decided to keep it for themselves?)) )) Interesting to see))))))))))

[Alexander Petrov1]

Between you want and it makes a big difference.

[kjhg]

I strongly doubt that the CA will succeed. The military industry has been created for decades. If they even had a more or less developed science and industry, then we could go along the path of copying. And so they will be able to establish a maximum screwdriver assembly of foreign military equipment from the kits. Hindus and those in no way can establish the normal production of tanks and aircraft from imported components. But what about the Arabs, who have never produced anything but oil and petroleum products?

[bouncyhunter]

They want to want. But let's not forget that as Uncle Sam says - so the Saud will dance. And mattresses are unlikely to like such "independence".

[kjhg]

Quote: bouncyhunter

as Uncle Sam says, so the Saudis will dance

Americans will find many ways to prevent Saud from getting out of hand.

Quote: bouncyhunter

mattresses such "independence" is hardly to their liking.

Who wants to lose such a fatty piece of oil? This is their cow and they have been milking it for many years.

[voyaka uh]

You can hire foreigners. But there’s a problem that suits them
only from Muslim countries. And with Turkey they are on knives.
And the Arabs are pretty white racists. It hurts them.
Pakistanis are "black" for them. Indonesians too ...
They can dial from Kazakhstan ...

[Amateur]

They can dial from Kazakhstan.

It's funny. "Kazakh scientist". Even cooler than the "English scientist"

[Arbagast]

Quote: Amateur

It's funny. "Kazakh scientist". Even cooler than the "English scientist"

"Great White Sahib ?! "Yes, we're cool ..

[igor67]

Quote: voyaka uh

You can hire foreigners. But there’s a problem that suits them
only from Muslim countries. And with Turkey they are on knives.
And the Arabs are pretty white racists. It hurts them.
Pakistanis are "black" for them. Indonesians too ...
They can dial from Kazakhstan ...

Well, in the Emirates, a lot of specialists from Ukraine and Russia work on aircraft maintenance, I have many friends who work there

[Mikhail3]

To create a military-industrial complex, you do not need a servant. We need teams that are managed by those who are able to manage such teams. That is, foreigners, Gentiles, will have to be put not even on a par, but much higher than local ones. I do not believe that this is possible in principle.

[Arbagast]

Quote: voyaka uh

They can dial from Kazakhstan ...

Syriosis Kazakhs can ride for "whites" ?!

[Simargl]

Voooot !!! Army knives, shovels, helmets - they can do everything ...

[abc_alex]

Quote: voyaka uh

You can hire foreigners. But there’s a problem that suits them
only from Muslim countries.

Well, let's say they traveled across Central Asia, drove to Pakistan and found 100-200 technicians to build their own tank. They rested for 5 years and issued drawings. So, what is next? Where is the production of armor steel? Where is the electronics manufacturing? Where is the engine, where is the transmission and suspension? Even if you follow the path of the USSR and the USA, that is, build autonomous production complexes "all in one", then all the same, such a complex "at the entrance" needs to be supplied with a lot of high-tech "raw materials" from steel sheets to microcircuits. This is where to get it? Buy everything? Then it will be cheaper and easier to buy a ready-made tank. Much cheaper and easier.
Even to make shells and cartridges on their own, it is not enough to create a cartridge factory. We need chemistry of explosives, which implies the chemistry of simple substances and compounds.

The military-industrial complex is much more serious than a couple of assembly plants with a hundred immigrants.

[Private-K]

Most likely, oil was also "produced" long before the arrival of the Arabs.

[kjhg]

It's hard to argue with that.

[Thrifty]

The same Yankees will do many things so that the Saudis continue to buy their military equipment, and not build their own. For the outflow of money for the US military-industrial complex may play a non-negative role, when many countries want to replace expensive weapons of US production with cheaper ones of their own production.

[Vaddik]

But what's the point, if you still do not know how to fight.

[Altai72]

[/ quote] Today, Saudi Arabia has the third largest military budget in the world, after the United States and China, and is the largest importer of weapons [quote]

With such expenses, the army should have entered the top 10 at a minimum. The beggar is Pakistan in 17th place, and the Saudis in 25th.

[Igorpl]

Eat then eat, but who will give him.

[Lopatov]

Turkey is actively working in this direction. Despite the pressure and failure.
Apparently, the SA also began to realize the vital necessity of their own defense industry.

[Igorpl]

Turks should not be compared with the Saudis.

[knn54]

And why not. There is a "true friend" of Morocco. Egypt can also join. At least the Yankes and the French will participate, at least, in the construction of factories.
Market Middle East, Africa.
Yes, and the example of Turkey is inspiring

[Nycomed]

Easily, plenty of money, experts will be invited. This is not Laos and Bolivia ...

[bars1]

By 2030 from 5% to 50% ... In my opinion, the Saudis are too optimistic.

[Andrey83]

By reducing imports

[Fedorov]

I have been to this finished country a couple of times, the locals are stupidly not working. Hindus, Filipinos, etc. wagon and trolley. Who will they create something with? Unless to buy while there is oil. And if it runs out, then again on camels.

[Kostadinov]

If you want a developed military industry, you need to have an independent economy and science.
This means we must go to rapprochement with Iran and Pakistan and the US conflict / sanctions.

[Rome]

VPK what will life be without oil? Export is unlikely, local production for the sake of cost reduction probably, but here is the quality, the big question!

[Lord of the Sith]

Saudi Arabia wants to have its own developed military industry

Have)))
How ambiguous))

At the moment, the American military-industrial complex has Saudis))
Without the Yankees, they dare not fart))

[Julius Caesar]

It was necessary to start simultaneously with Iran ...