F-35, how the US-United Arab Emirates contract is going
The United States and the United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement on the sale of the F-35s to the latter, agreeing on a relatively distant date – December – to give the Americans time to study how not to irritate Israel.
IN DECEMBER THE US-UAE CONTRACT ON THE F-35
The United States and the United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement on the sale of the F-35s to the latter, agreeing on a relatively distant date – December – to give the Americans time to study how not to irritate Israel.
THE DATE ACCORDING TO REUTERS
Reuters sources aware of the negotiations also speak of a precise date for the signing of a preliminary letter: it is December 2, the day of the national holiday of the Emirates.
THE ISRAEL NODE ON THE F-35
Like any military agreement signed by the US government, this too will have to comply with the criterion that Israel must maintain military superiority in its region, ensuring that the weapons supplied to the Jewish state are "superior in capacity" to those sold to other buyers.
THE F-35 ORDER FOR THE EMIRATES
What Washington has in mind according to two sources is to find a way to make the F-35s sold to the UAE less "stealth", and therefore more visible to Israeli radars. It is unclear whether this will require changing the F-35 entirely, or will it be enough to provide Israel with better radars.
WHAT ISRAEL SAYS
Israel's Defense Minister Michael Biton, however, said on army radio that even if the UAE equip themselves with F-35s, it will always be possible to "preserve the relative advantage" of the Israeli army.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/f-35-come-va-il-contratto-usa-emirati-arabi-uniti/ on Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:15:20 +0000.