King Khalid Military City, built in the 80s, was US Designed, Supervised by the Corps of Engineers, etc. Hardly a secret.
Most air bases and radar sites were also US designed and built.
Squadrons and Squadrons of Saudi piloted planes threaten only sand dunes and anything in the glide path.
Because royals get first crack at being pilots, they have the largest cadre of totally untrainable pilots.These guys are in it for the uniform and rank. They refuse to be stationed anywhere other than the three large cities.
If they got Chinese missles, then they had to get the Chinese technicians and rocketeers because they could never launch with total Saudi control.
The whole article sounds like somebody couldn't get their shortwave working tonight and posted the script here instead.
Because royals get first crack at being pilots, they have the largest cadre of totally untrainable pilots.
I'm trying hard to regret the waste of beautiful aircraft, but am somehow LMAO.
After all, their checks did clear.
The likelihood of their gaining the expertise to operate such a complex in that short a period of time is, to put it charitabley, remote.BTW, I've been in KKMC on more than a few occasions and saw nothing like the article discribs. I am encouraged to see that they (supposedly) have Tornadoes guarding the place. Probably one of the few aircraft in the world the requires 3 hours of maintainence for every hour of operation.
Michael C.