05/13/2025May 13, 2025
US State Department approves $1.4 billion arms deals to UAE
The US State Department has authorized two arms deals with the .
The combined deals, which include sales of military aircraft and equipment, are worth around $1.4 billion (€1.3 billion).
One proposed sale involves six CH-47F Chinook helicopters and other equipment, the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said in a statement on Monday.
“The UAE will use these assets in search and rescue, disaster relief, humanitarian support, and counterterrorism operations,” the statement said.
In addition to the helicopters, the State Department also approved the sale of $130 million in F-16 fighter jet components.
Congress has a 30-day window if it wants to block the proposed sale.
UAE accused of arming rebels in Sudan
Amnesty International last week accused the UAE of supplying Sudan’s paramilitary RSF group with Chinese weapons in defiance of a UN embargo, fuelling the civil war there.
The UAE strongly denied Amnesty’s claims.
However, other experts, including from the United Nations, have accused the Arab nation over the past year of arming the RSF, which has been fighting the army for more than two years.
The has severed diplomatic ties with the Gulf state.
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