[MARKUSPRIME]

What are you thinking UK? Selling top of the line Typhoons to the Saudi theocrats is crazy. We cannot let them have an upper hand on Israel.Maybe a dumbed down F-15/F-16 or something but not a Typhoon or F-22.

[Atlantic Friend]

Isn’t that a tad hypocritical given the amount of high-tech hardware the US sold to shaky allied such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia ? F-15, M-1 tanks, AWACS planes...

I am afraid the lesson that will be learned by BAE and other UK firms will be NOT to use US technology, so they remain free of selling to whoever gets approved by their OWN government.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I guess I fail to see the problem. Who’s gonna be flying them?

Arab air forces are rife with neopotism and cronyism. They farm out maintenance and logistics to Westerners and are lucky to be able to get off the ground in the event of a conflict. (Egyptians are a little better than the Arab standard, but not much.)

This is like selling computers to gorillas, a waste of money.

[Oztrich Boy]

Who was the first customer for the Boeing E0-3 Sentry back in 1983, sold by the great Ronnie Reagan?

Oh yeah, these guys