Western experts suspect Ukrainian "origin" of fuel for Saudi ballistic missiles
As a result of the implementation of an ambitious program to create its own ballistic missiles, Saudi Arabia received a new type weapons, designed to deliver a powerful blow to tactical depth. In the West, they suspected that Ukrainian competencies were in demand in the process of working on the project.
According to a CNN report, Saudi Arabia has launched the production of solid-fueled ballistic missiles. As evidence, data obtained when shooting from space. According to American TV, they depict a pit for burning excess solid fuel at the Al-Dawadmi missile factory, located about 200 km west of Riyadh.
Its use may indicate that Saudi Arabia has begun production of solid fuel engines.
- say experts from the Western analytical organization IISS.
Previously, in 2013, a ballistic missile development and deployment facility known as Base 544 was filmed from space, with launch pads, underground tunnels, a solid fuel production facility, and a test bed for solid fuel engines. Then this object was intended for the operation of Chinese medium-range ballistic missiles DF-3A and DF-21, which were acquired in 1988 and 2007, respectively.
According to Western experts, in the future, Beijing assisted Riyadh in the development and licensed production of its own solid-fuel rockets, in the supply of which to Saudi Arabia they suspected Ukraine, namely the Pavlograd Chemical Plant. The Ukrainian state-owned enterprise receives funding from Riyadh as part of the Grom-2 short-range ballistic missile project, according to the IISS, which resembles the Russian Iskander OTR. It is noted that this is precisely why the Ukrainian origin of the fuel was suspected by Western experts.
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