Friday, November 20, 1981 7 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Purely Commentary Who Gets All the Armaments? Let the Record Speak for Itself (Continued from Page 2) • Mobile ground radar — Six previously pur- chased mobile ground radars, which will be tied into C3 system purchased as part of AWACS package — $39 million. • Four more AWACS planes — Option to lease in addition to the five sold them —costs unknown. • Electronic warfare and intelligence equip- ment; some ground and some mounted on C130 aircraft and linked to C3I system; estimated cost — $1 billion. • Surface-to-air missiles — 16 improved Hawk missile batteries tied into C3 network plus more missiles — $1.6 billion. • F15 aircraft — 60 Saudi F15s purchased in 1978 plus-two spares stored in United States, in- cluding followup contracts— $4.5 billion. • F15 bomb racks or comparable equipment promised in the future — cost unknown. • Oil storage — Network of hardened oil- storage facilities including some refined fuel for U.S. RDF with sites at Yanbu and elsewhere as backup if Gulf facilities are attacked — more than $8 billion (excluding value of oil). • Prepositioned equipment and munitions suf- ficient to sustain U.S. forces during intensive combat for 90 days or more; Saudis to pay sub- stantial share of costs; makes available not only AWACS but other military equipment just pur- chased including, 1,177 AIM9L Sidewinder mis- siles, six Boeing 707 aerial refueling aircraft (plus option for two more) that can refuel the U.S. carrier-based F14s as well as Saudi aircraft — more than $1 billion (excluding AWACS package). • Mini-Rapid Deployment Force —Protects oil fields from saboteurs; special remote-controlled sensors; research and development on nonfric- tion ballistics — costs unknown. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • Air defense study in August, 1980, recom- mended purchase of surface-to-air missile system — cost unknown. • Seven batteries of improved Hawk surface- to-air missiles currently being purchased to be plugged into master C3 system by Saudis — $800 million. • Project Lambda including ground radar, electronic warfare equipment, brigade-level command posts, an integrated air defense opera- tions center and equipping one or more C130 air- craft with Electronic Intelligence (ELINT), Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) and Communications In- telligence (COMINT) gear — $1 billion to $2 bil- lion. • .C130s for the electronic intelligence equip- ment — cost unknown. OMAN • Overall defense study in October, 1979, by Defense and State departments at U.S. expense — cost unknown. • U.S. facility study in early 1980 to identify needed improvements for use by U.S. forces — cost unknown. • Air and naval study in November, 1980, recommended coordination of naval efforts for threat to the Strait of Hormuz — cost unknown. • RDF upgrading of facilities at Khasab and Masirah — $70 million plus. KUWAIT • Surface-to-air missiles — 27 improved Hawk launchers, 164 missiles and other associated costs — Si billion plus. BAHRAIN • U.S. Army study recommending purchase of improved Hawk missiles — cost unlmown. • Improved Hawk surface-to-air missiles — To be paid for by Saudi Arabia and integrated into the Saudi air defense network — $200 million QATAR No known purchases to date. GULF-WIDE • 100 to 150 fighter-planes — Anthony Cordes- man, an administration witness, has written that Saudi C3 will absorb between 100 to 150 fighter- planes purchased by the other regional states, estimated costs including contractor training, maintenance and support — $5 billion to $10 bil- lion. New Bank Notes Planned JERUSALEM (ZINS) — and IS 2,000 notes. There Israel is studying the feasi- are now approximately 13.7 bility of new IS 500, IS 1,000 shekels to the dollar. t..AostwA tt - . ** :`,•••:•-'•• • acquired arms from the USSR at half the price he'd pay the U.S. There is competition in merchandise of destruction. No one seems immune. Therein is the tragedy of the arms With the increasing list of customers there also is a growth of merchants. Hussein of Jordan boasted that he race. Total: more than $47 billion, including the $8.5 billion AWACS sale. 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