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Report: US approves $7 billion more in weapons for United Arab Emirates
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Trump administration has approved about $7 billion in weapons for the United Arab Emirates that the State Department is not required to announce to the public under rules governing US arms exports, the Wall Street Journal reports.
That is in addition to arms sales to three Middle East countries worth more than $16.5 billion announced earlier on Thursday, the Journal says.
The unannounced deals include the sale of Patriot PAC-3 Missiles worth about $5.6 billion and CH-47 Chinook helicopters costing about $1.32 billion to the UAE, the Journal says, citing US officials, adding that those sales were not announced publicly because they expanded previously agreed arms deals.
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