DefenceTalkBelgian leaders are mulling the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, national broadcaster RTBF has said, after it was reported they had been used in Yemen. Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told RTBF on Saturday: “I think it would be good to suspend arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia” if it were shown they had been […]https://www.defencetalk.com/belgian-leaders-mull-suspension-of-saudi-arms-sales-72306/

DefenceTalkUkraine has suspended a joint venture with Saudi Arabia to produce the An-132 military transport aircraft. President of Ukraine Antonov State Company, Alexander Donets, which manufactures the aircraft, announced on Friday that the company will continue to build the vehicles but with a new partner. “In the framework of this project, an An-32D was built […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ukraine-suspends-joint-venture-with-saudi-arabia-to-build-an-132-aircraft-72294/

DefenceTalkGermany on Wednesday extended a temporary, disputed ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, but only until the end of the month. In October, Berlin froze sales of military equipment to countries involved in war on Yemen following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It has since faced protests by EU partners because the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/germany-extends-saudi-arms-export-freeze-till-end-march-72187/

DefenceTalkGermany said Wednesday it would hold firm on its decision to halt weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, shrugging off British warnings that the embargo could hurt European credibility and efforts to bring peace in Yemen. “The stance of the government is that we won’t deliver weapons to Saudi Arabia at the moment,” Foreign Minister Heiko […]https://www.defencetalk.com/germany-firm-on-saudi-arms-ban-despite-british-warning-72121/

DefenceTalkArab countries are in talks with the United States for a new security agreement to protect the Middle East from “external aggression”, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday. “The aim is to achieve security arrangements in the Middle East that can protect the region from external aggression… and strengthen relations between the United […]https://www.defencetalk.com/arabs-in-talks-with-us-for-security-pact-saudis-say-71967/

DefenceTalkFresh clashes and air strikes around the Yemeni city of Hodeida have killed 32 rebels, hospital and medical sources said on Sunday, as the UN envoy kept up peace efforts in Sanaa. A military source told AFP the Saudi-led coalition fighting alongside the Yemeni government against Huthi rebels carried out an air raid on a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uns-yemen-envoy-in-sanaa-as-32-rebels-killed-71859/

DefenceTalkForty children were among 51 people killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen, the Red Cross said Tuesday, after thousands protested at a mass funeral. Fifty-six children were also among the 79 people wounded in the Thursday strike on Saada province, a rebel stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/yemen-bus-strike-killed-40-children-says-red-cross-71808/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. government awarded Lockheed Martin an Undefinitized Contract Action (UCA) award for the production of the Multi-Mission Surface Combatant for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Lockheed Martin is being awarded a contract totaling $450 million to begin the detailed design and planning for construction of four Multi-Mission Surface Combatants (MMSC) that will be built […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-martin-begins-production-of-multi-mission-surface-combatant-for-saudi-arabia-71745/

DefenceTalkSaudi air defences intercepted a missile fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom’s southern city of Najran on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels said, adding that one person was wounded. “The missile was fired at Najran indiscriminately and with the aim of hitting residential areas,” coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told the official […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saudi-forces-say-intercept-missile-fired-by-yemen-rebels-71606/

DefenceTalkIran’s Revolutionary Guards today rejected claims that the country is supplying weapons to Yemeni rebels after they fired several missiles into Saudi Arabia. “The aim of such claims by Saudi Arabia is to divert public opinion from the atrocities (they) are committing in Yemen,” said Yadollah Javani, a political officer for the Revolutionary Guards, according […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-guards-deny-supplying-missiles-to-yemen-rebels-71593/