UAE to get AMRAAMs for its Desert Falcons

Following the acceptance of a letter of offer Raytheon will supply AIM-120 C-7 missiles to the UAE, an advanced variant of the fire and forget active radar homing air-to-air missile.

“The value of the deal is sizeable and deliveries will start mid to late 2011,” P.T. Mikolashek, President of Raytheon Middle East & North Africa said in the Khaleej Times, declining to state the value.

“There are other countries in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and Oman that are looking at upgrades of their missile programmes,” he said at the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX).