Pieter Wezeman

Russia has tried hard in the past 10 to 15 years to get into the large Saudi arms market, but it has not been very successful. Saudi Arabia has acquired Russian rifles and may have bought some other items, but such deals have been very small, china has made some more substantial inroads into the Saudi arms market, in particular selling armed drones.

China has made some more substantial inroads into the Saudi arms market, in particular selling armed drones, the details are shady and we may very well have underestimated China's role as an arms exporter to Saudi Arabia. But China doesn't come anywhere near the USA, United Kingdom or even France as arms suppliers. Still, the important point here is that Saudi Arabia has explored the possibility of diversifying Saudi Arabia supplier base.

With four battalions, they should be able to deploy missile syste... by Pieter Wezeman

With four battalions, they should be able to deploy missile systems in four different locations.

The key Arab states have heavily increased their spending, and if they see bigger threats from Iran I'm sure they will go further.