Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to our Congressmen, it's O.K. to sell the latest offensive aircraft, the F-15s and F-16s, to Israel. But selling defensive aircraft like AWACS to Saudi Arabia is wrong. This country couldn't ask for a better friend in the Middle East than Saudi Arabia. Yet Congress continues to insist on treating the Saudis as if they were lepers...
...machine is formidable. The Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) has grown immensely since the traumatic weeks of the 1973 October War. The armed forces now number 169,000, with 252,000 reservists ready to report on 24 to 48 hours' notice. The I.D.F. possesses 481 planes, with 90 F-15s and F-16s on order, and 3,050 tanks-many of them highly sophisticated...
...case of the Administration's evenhandedness toward the Arab world. Even if the purchase squeaks through, the Saudis might be as dismayed by the fury of the fight necessary to get it approved as they were by the ugly conflict in 1978 over their right to buy F-15s. While they understand the political necessity of delaying the vote in Congress, the Saudis are already grumbling. Asks one high Saudi official: "How can we work with a country that has no consensus...
...Jimmy Carter rammed through Congress the sale of 62 F-15s to Saudi Arabia, partly by promising that they would not be outfitted with offensive equipment-such as range-extending fuel tanks. The Saudis, however, soon after felt themselves encircled by unfriendly states. They began asking for more powerful weapons...
...Department announced that the U.S. would sell the Saudis at least some of the F-15 accessories they had been seeking. Included in the new equipment will be longer-range fuel tanks and air-to-air missiles. Still under discussion are bomb racks and refueling capability for the F-15s...