Armée Saoudienne / Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia

Rappel du premier message :

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Country-By-Country/saudi_arabia.htm

15 Tornado
20 F-15

Nous sommes au musée de la RSAF à Riyadh, "Saqr Al Jazirra"

Lookheed L1011-500 Tristar, il fut utilisé pour les entrainements anti-terroriste



C130H



Douglas DC-4



un nouveau venu ... F68 Sabre



F15B



L'intercepteur Tornado ADV



BAC Strike Master Mk80



T6 Texan



Le Bombardier Douglas A26B



Lookheed T33 Shouting Star



BAC Lightening T55

Nice pics Fremo.

J'aime bien le A26B.

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People stand next to a Royal Saudi Air Force F16 (lol @ caption) jet during the opening ceremony of the Bahrain Air Show in Sakir Base, south of Manama, January 19, 2012.

Le C130 472 à son arrivée hier à Paris

Pour détendre un peu..

Les saoudiens qui regarde un mousselsalat turc.



Dabka, les Turcs connaîtront sous l'appellation d'Halay.

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Hires

A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle departs for a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range during Red Flag 12-2 Jan. 27, 2012, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is hosted north of Las Vegas on the NTTR.

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Thales bids for $3B Saudi missile deal



RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- French military electronics giant Thales is negotiating with Saudi Arabia for a contract, worth up to $3 billion, to upgrade the kingdom's air-defense network, particularly those guarding key military and government sites.

The French company's regional arm, Thales International Middle East, is well-established in the kingdom.

Over the last three decades Thales has maintained the Shahine and Crotale surface-to-air missiles built by its predecessor, Thomson-CSF, for Saudi Arabia. The Shahine is a land-based mobile version of the Crotale and was specifically designed for the kingdom's air defense forces.

It became operational in 1980 and the 40 Crotale, 73 Shahine and 68 Crotale/Shahine launchers held by the Saudis have been maintained and periodically upgraded by Thales. The company's latest Shahine modernization contract was signed in December 2010.

The Intelligence Online Web site observed that "after the French rail company SNCF's failure to obtain the contract to build the Mecca-Medina 'Pilgrim Train' line and Thales' unsuccessful bid for the Miksa border security contract, the French are hoping that air defense may yet (get) that much hoped-for mega-contract with Saudi Arabia."

France, which is the third biggest arms supplier to the Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf after the United States and Britain, has lost out on some big defense deals there recently.

Leading French plane maker, Dassault Aviation, is vying for a contract with the United Arab Emirates for 60 Rafale multi-role combat jets worth up to $10 billion. But the deal, in the works since 2008, hit a snag in November 2011 when Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, dismissed Dassault's terms as "uncompetitive and unworkable."

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is the emirates' main economic powerhouse and handles all its military procurement. The emirate's air force, now one of the most powerful in the region, wants to replace the 63 Mirage 2000-9 fighters it purchased from Dassault two decades ago.

"Rather than using the strength of the bilateral relationship to close the deal out they're attempting to use it to hold out on pricing and a deal structure that hasn't changed in more than a year and that's been significantly bettered by all competitors," an emirates' defense source observed.

The emirates had shown interest in Boeing's F-15 Eagle and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, as well as the Eurofighter Typhoon. That's built by a consortium comprising the German and Spanish branches of the European aerospace giant EADS, Britain's BAE Systems and Finmeccanica of Italy.

After failing to sell the Rafale to Morocco, Brazil and Switzerland, Dassault has been desperate for an export sale of the jet, which like the Eurofighter made its combat debut in the NATO air campaign against the late Moammar Gadhafi's ill-fated regime in Libya in 2011.

As prospects of achieving a sale in the emirates dwindled, Dassault achieved its aim Tuesday when it emerged as the lowest bidder for a 126-plane contract with India, beating the Eurofighter which also lost out in December on an $8 billion deal with Japan.

Dassault will now enter final negotiations with New Delhi for the deal, the value of which industry sources say could swell to as much as $15 billion-$20 billion.

The India deal keeps the Rafale production line going, as until now the jet's only customers had been the French air force and navy. The Financial Times estimated Dassault Aviation, as the core manufacturer, should reap 60 percent of the value of the Indian contract.

But Thales, which supplies Rafale's avionics and in which Dassault has a 26 percent stake, should also benefit, along with Safran, which manufactures the engines.

EADS didn't go away empty-handed either, even though New Delhi passed on the Eurofighter, as the European outfit owns 46 percent of Dassault.

Meantime, the Europeans are involved in another scrap in the Persian Gulf.

Executives at Germany's Daimler are seeking to block the planned sale of the company's holdings in EADS to the gas-rich emirate of Qatar. Daimler wants to shed its 15 percent stake in the Franco-German aerospace conglomerate, but fears if the shares are sold to Qatar this would allow old rival France, which has close links with the emirate, to dominate EADS.

France has 22.5 percent of EADS, the parent company of Airbus.

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Viva Su/Mig ! :angem:

Ils ont participé à coté de notre frégate dans les mêmes exercices et ils ont pu rendre visite et voir les performances de l'Adroit au large ....

entrainement Exocet,s´agit il de tirs Exo?
depuis missilex 10 on a plus rien entendu chez nous

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Saudi Arabia, Boeing Strike Deal for 36 AH-6i


SINGAPORE — Saudi Arabia has signed a deal with the U.S. that will make it the launch customer for Boeing’s AH-6i light attack helicopter.

Boeing executives briefing reporters on Feb. 13 ahead of the Singapore Airshow, which opens here Feb 14, said the two sides had inked a letter of acceptance (LoA) for 36 helicopters.

“The [LoA] deal with the AH-6i is done. It was signed a few weeks ago,” said Mark Kronenberg, the vice president of international business development at Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

With the LoA in place, Boeing and Saudi Arabia can begin final contract negotiations regarding issues such as price and delivery schedules.

The AH-6i was part of a $60 billion Saudi shopping spree for U.S. weaponry, including fighter jets and helicopters such as the Apache AH-64D, unveiled in late 2010.

The largest part of the purchase was completed in 2011 when a nearly $30 billion contract was signed by Boeing to equip Saudi Arabia with 84 new F-15SAs and upgrade 70 fighter jets already in service in the Gulf kingdom.

Having signed a memorandum of understanding in 2010, Jordan was expected to be the launch customer for the AH-6i. Kronenberg said the deal had not gone away but budget pressures had intervened.

U.S. special operations forces already operate an earlier version of the helicopter.

The upgraded machine was heading for the Singapore Airshow, but Boeing opted to take the helicopter back to the U.S. for minor modifications ahead of a flight demonstration for the U.S. Army’s Armed Aerial Scout requirement, Kronenberg said.

Kronenberg said that even though the AAS program’s future remains questionable, Boeing had been assured the Army would proceed with the demonstration, targeted for June or July.

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C-130 ( 475 ) à son arrivée à Paris aujourd'hui

Al Dammam ( 816 ) issu du programme Sawari II ( F3000 une version modifiée des FLF )



3 patrouilleurs de la classe As Siddiq



Al Madinah ( 702 ) issue du programme Sawari I ( F2000 version modifié des A69 )



Boraïda ( 902 ) un mini Durance qui a été reçu avec une autre unité ( Yunbo' ( 904 ) ) dans le cadre du premier programme Sawari





Badr ( 612 )



Tir d'un Harpoon à partir d'une corvette de la classe Badr



Tir d'un Harpoon à partir du patrouilleur Abdulaziz ( 515 ) de classe As Siddiq



Al Jawf ( 420 ) un CM de Type Sandown



son sistership Al Kharj ( 424 )

est ce normal que ca dure longtemps chez eux le tir exo ?

il y a un problème ... remarques qu'on a revu le lancement à partir de la passerelle, on voit qu'après le premier lancement, il y a une fumée et puis on a effectué un autre tir !

:lo

Yakuza a écrit:

est ce normal que ca dure longtemps chez eux le tir exo ?

il sent meme mauvais des fesse le exocet parceque tout le monde se bouche ne nez apres le tire

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et certain ose dire que ils sont la 2eme force aérienne arabe lah ihdina oukhlas

135 tornado
72 typhoon
et +200 f15

sans parlé des awcs et hélicoptère tout genre , ni qualitativement ni quantitativement aucun pays arabe n'est capable de tenir tête a l'arabie saoudite même pas l'égypt .

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L’Aravis saoudien


Laurent Collet-Billon Délégué général pour l’armement l’a confirmé ce matin durant la présentation du bilan 2011 de la DGA, c’est très discrètement que Nexter aurait signé fin 2011 un contrat avec l’Arabie Saoudite, pour “entre 100 et 200″ véhicules blindés 4X4 Aravis. Le constructeur du char Leclerc enregistre avec ce contrat son premier succès export pour le véhicule hautement protégé Aravis, développé sur fonds propres et révélé en 2008.

Interrogé, Nexter “confirme l’entrée en carnet ce jour d’une commande 73 Aravis.” Sans préciser le pays… Sans doute un deuxième “batch” est-il en négociation, ce qui pourrait expliquer le couac sur le nombre de véhicules…

Pour mémoire, la France avait passé commande de 15 véhicules Aravis pour 20 millions d’euros en 2009, dans le cadre du plan de relance. Le “MRAP à la française” est pensé pour offrir une très forte résistance (blindage de niveau 4 selon la classification Otan) aux engins explosifs improvisés (IED) grâce à une architecture s’articulant autour d’une cellule de survie hautement blindée destinée à protéger l’équipage. L’Aravis est depuis déployé en Afghanistan.

L’Arabie Saoudite est un pays proche de la France et un client traditionnel de Nexter, il lui a déjà passé commande pour 80 canons de 155 mm Caesar sur châssis camion. Client traditionnellement très discret, l’Arabie impose une chape de silence sur ses achats d’armes, d’où le peu d’informations et de détails sur ce nouveau contrat Aravis. Reste que selon une source proche du dossier, le véhicule pourrait être produit sur place, à l’instar du Caesar et devrait être armé, sans doute avec le canon de Nexter l’ARX-20 de 20 mm. Pour l’industriel qui attend toujours une commande export pour son VBCI, le contrat est le bienvenu. L’Aravis est estimé aux alentours d’un million d’euros pièce.

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