{"id":2596,"date":"2026-03-21T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:40:49","slug":"state-department-approves-arms-sales-to-uae-kuwait-and-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/2026\/03\/21\/state-department-approves-arms-sales-to-uae-kuwait-and-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Approves Arms Sales to UAE, Kuwait and Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/author\/kyle_anzalone\/\">Kyle Anzalone<\/a> | March 19, 2026 at 5:34 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/tag\/jordan\/\">Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/tag\/kuwait\/\">Kuwait<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/tag\/uae\/\">UAE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally published at Judgenap.com and reprinted with permission<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Department used emergency powers to rush through billions in arms sales to Middle Eastern countries that have come under attack because of the US-Israeli war against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Department Bureau of Political and Military Affairs announced a series of arms deals totaling $16 billion on Thursday. The UAE will purchase an advanced radar for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/united-arab-emirates-long-range-discrimination-radar-with-terminal-high-altitude-area-defense-integration\/\">THAAD<\/a>) system valued at $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran has targeted THAAD radars across the Middle East. ABC News reports that at least four radars have been destroyed. The US is moving parts of a THAAD system out of South Korea for the war against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UAE will also buy 400 AIM-120C-7 or AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/united-arab-emirates-advanced-medium-range-air-to-air-missiles-amraams\/\">AMRAAMs<\/a>), ten Fixed Site- Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/bureau-of-political-military-affairs\/2026\/03\/united-arab-emirates-fixed-site-low-slow-small-unmanned-aircraft-integrated-defeat-system\/\">FS-LIDS<\/a>) System of Systems, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/bureau-of-political-military-affairs\/2026\/03\/united-arab-emirates-f-16-munitions-and-upgrades\/\">thousands of bombs<\/a> with guidance kits. Those sales will total $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/bureau-of-political-military-affairs\/2026\/03\/kuwait-lower-tier-air-and-missile-defense-sensor-radars\/\">Kuwait <\/a>will purchase eight Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) radars for $8 billion. Additionally, the US will also sell aircraft munitions and support equipment to Jordan. The deal is valued at $<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/government-of-jordan-aircraft-repair-return-and-spares\/\">49 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Department said all the sales were emergency action to bypass Congressional oversight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kyle Anzalone | March 19, 2026 at 5:34 pm ET | Jordan, Kuwait, UAE Originally published at Judgenap.com and reprinted with permission The State Department used emergency powers to rush through billions in arms sales to Middle Eastern countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}