Saudi Arabia appears to be building its own ballistic missiles with China’s help

CNN reported that US intelligence believes Saudi Arabia is developing its own ballistic missiles.
It said intelligence found recent transfers of missile technology between China and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has foreign-made ballistic missiles, but is not believed to have made its own before.

US intelligence agencies believe Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles with Chinese technology, CNN reported, citing people familiar with the findings.

CNN reported, citing its sources, that US intelligence showed multiple exchanges of ballistic-missile technology between the two countries.

Saudi Arabia is known to possess foreign-made ballistic missiles, but was not believed to have made its own before, CNN reported.

CNN also published satellite images showing a complex near Dawadmi, a town 200 miles from the capital Riyadh, that appeared to be manufacturing missiles.

Saudi Arabia and neighboring Iran, which also owns missiles, are bitter enemies. The US has been trying to negotiate a new agreement to halt Iran’s nuclear development.

Neither the White House nor the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC, immediately responded to Insider’s request for comment. The CIA declined to comment.

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By NC ScoutPublished On: December 27, 2021Categories: AP Staff, Intelligence5 Comments

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5 Comments

GK December 27, 2021 at 09:10

Let’s not forget Saudis paid for Pakistan’s nuclear program.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/saudi-arabia-pakistan-and-the-bomb/
- NC Scout December 27, 2021 at 09:31
  
  Yes they did.
Centurion_Cornelius December 27, 2021 at 10:21

Saudis=Snakes in the Sand.

USA’s been buying up their oil for decades to prop up their corrupt and evil regime, which, they, in turn, prop up our corrupt and evil Fed Reserve and Treasury via the petro-dollar scam. A Round-Robin of evil.

THIS is the way a snake thanks you.
- Johnny Paratrooper December 27, 2021 at 19:00
  
  Strategically, it makes sense to burn up everyone else’s oil reserves in a Post-WW2 Cold War society and introduce doses of Capitalism to plant the seeds of resistance to Marxism.
  
  The Left Wing Marxists talk a big game all over the world, but all their friends drive Mercedes, Porsche, Ferrari, and Lambo’s.
  
  The New C8 Corvette is sold out for almost two years and I can assure you, the retiring Baby Boomers had a lot to do with that, but I bet 50% of them were sold overseas.
Johnny Paratrooper December 27, 2021 at 19:02

“Let’s Go Prince Mohammed”