The US State Department has given Congress informal notification that it plans to sell 18 sophisticated armed aerial drones to the United Arab Emirates in a deal worth as much as $2.9 billion, Reuters reports.
Last week, the administration told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that it plans to sell as many as 50 Lockheed Martin-made F-35 jets to the UAE, for roughly $10.4 billion. Israel has ordered the same number of F-35s from the US, though not all of them have been transferred yet.
The new sale would mark the first armed drone export since the Trump administration “reinterpreted a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations to allow US defense contractors to sell more drones to allies, Reuters says.
In September, the UAE, Bahrain and Israel signed normalization agreements, brokered by the US, at the White House.
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