Iranian Threat? United Arab Emirates Gets Missile Defense System

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Iranian Threat? United Arab Emirates Gets Missile Defense System
JustDarby Offer Upgrade User ID: 44270073 United States 09/20/2013 09:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Iranian Threat? United Arab Emirates Gets Missile Defense System The Pentagon said on Friday it has finalized a contract worth $4 billion with Lockheed Martin Corp to supply equipment for a missile defence system to the United States and the United Arab Emirates. The deal involves Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile defence system that is designed to intercept ballistic missiles in midair. [link to www.4-traders.com] from DOD's website - Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been awarded a $3,920,739,507 contract modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract (HQ0147-07-C-0196) for production of both U.S. government (USG) and exportable Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Interceptors plus associated equipment to the United Arab Emirates [link to www.defense.gov] Maybe the missiles will defend the nuclear power plants the Koreans are building for them... Last Edited by JustDarby on 09/20/2013 10:02 PM

Anonymous Coward User ID: 47039989 United States 09/20/2013 11:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Iranian Threat? United Arab Emirates Gets Missile Defense System And about those nuclear power plants.... Safety is first at Barakah plant, UAE assures UN nuclear watchdog ...The Barakah power plant makes the UAE the first country among the newcomers to the nuclear sector to begin building such a facility for 27 years. The nuclear power programme is being developed to cater to the rising demand for electricity across the country. Work on the first nuclear reactor began last July and work on a second unit at the US$20 billion (Dh73.5bn) nuclear plant began in May this year. All four nuclear power plants are due to be operational by 2020. Read more: [link to www.thenational.ae] Quoting: JustDarby Its not just the UAE that is building nuclear power plants, there are several other Arab based nations also building nuclear power plants, among them is Saudi Arabia. Strangely we only here about Iran's. Thing is most of the other Arab House Nuclear Power Plants are being build by either European industries or the USA's nuclear industries. Iran seems in many ways to be an exception.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47039989 United States 09/20/2013 11:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Iranian Threat? United Arab Emirates Gets Missile Defense System I forgot myself, Iran is NOT ARABIC.. it is basically Persian..
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47039989 United States 09/20/2013 11:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Iranian Threat? United Arab Emirates Gets Missile Defense System For that matter Iraq under Sadman, Sadman looks at Iraq as being Babylonian and neither Arabic nor Persian.

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