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The Al Yamamah agreements between the UK and Saudi Arabia require "the provision of a complete defence package for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"; BAE Systems employs 5,300 people in the country. [149] As of March 2022, BAE Systems employs over 7,000 people in Saudi Arabia and 75 per cent of the employees are Saudi nationals. [150]
A central part of the Al Yamamah deal was the sale of Tornado fighters to the Royal Saudi Air Force.. Al Yamamah (Arabic: اليمامة, lit. 'The Dove') is the name of a series of record arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels (95,000 m 3) of crude oil per day to the British government. [1]
On 23 May 2012, the British defence firm BAE Systems agreed to sell 22 BAE Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft to the Royal Saudi Air Force for a total of £1.9 billion ($3 billion). The deal also included simulators, ground and training equipment and spares. [11] In April 2013, BAE Systems delivered the first two new Typhoons of 24 to Saudi Arabia.
Hawk 165 – Export version for the Royal Saudi Air Force. 22 aircraft were originally built in the UK by BAE [130] with delivery completed in 2017, [131] whilst another 22 aircraft are currently being built locally in Saudi Arabia [132] with the first "locally built" aircraft delivered to the RSAF in June 2019 and a further 7 by October 2019 ...
Shares in London-listed BAE Systems soared 7% on Monday. Germany's Rheinmetall jumped 8%, while Italian and French defense firms also got boosts.
BAE Systems Hawk 165 Military unit No. 21 Squadron RSAF is a squadron of the Royal Saudi Air Force that operates the BAE Systems Hawk 165 at King Faisal Air Base , Tabuk , Tabuk Province in Saudi Arabia within RSAF 7 Wing.
Since 2010, BAE Systems has been training Saudi Arabian personnel at its factory in Warton, in preparation for setting up an assembly plant in Saudi Arabia. [63] By 2011, 24 Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoons had been delivered to Saudi Arabia, consisting of 18 single-seat and 6 two-seat aircraft.
The Corner House applied for judicial review of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) decision to stop investigating BAE Systems. The SFO director decided to halt a criminal investigation into alleged bribery in relation to an arms supply contract between BAE Systems and the Saudi Arabian authorities, known as the Al-Yamamah arms deal. The UK ...