Lockheed to sustain Saudi F-15 sensors
A major US company has won a contract to provide sustainment services for the sensor suite of the F-15 fleet of the Royal Saudi Air Force amid an outcry over the kingdom’s continued airstrikes in neighboring Yemen.
Reports on Sunday showed that the US Air Force had awarded a lucrative contract to Lockheed Martin for sustaining Saudi Arabia’s F-15 sensor suite.
Lockheed said in a statement that the USD 263-million contract will see it upgrade the Saudi fleet's so-called Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods, a system which enhances air-to-ground and air-to-air targeting capability.
According to the contract, Lockheed will also sustain LANTIRN Extended Range navigation pods and Infrared Search and Track (IRST) system for the kingdom’s F-15 fleet.
The US company is planned to perform the mission in partnership with Saudi company Advanced Electronics Company in a still unknown facility inside Saudi Arabia.
The development comes as Saudi Arabia continues for the seventh successive month with its air attacks on civilian targets in Yemen. The Saudi aggression has claimed the lives of more than 7,100 people and displaced more than a million so far.
Saudi Arabia began its aggression against Yemen on March 26 in a bid to undermine the advancing ruling Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive President Abd Rabbuha Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The kingdom’s military action in Yemen, which lacks any international mandate, has enjoyed covert support from the US as reports have confirmed that Pentagon shares intelligence with Riyadh enabling the kingdom’s fighter jets to pound the positions of Yemen’s Ansarullah and the allied groups.
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