{"id":4519,"date":"2022-10-08T22:58:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2022-10-08T22:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T19:58:39","slug":"us-oks-3b-nasams-mrads-for-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/us-oks-3b-nasams-mrads-for-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"US OKs $3B NASAMS, MRADS for Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has\u00a0approved\u00a0the foreign military sale of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and Medium Range Air Defense System (MRADS) to Kuwait for three billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait has requested 63 AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM); 63 AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II tactical missiles; 12 Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems \u2013 Low Volume Terminal (MIDS LVT) Block Upgrade 2; and 12 MIDS LVT Cryptographic Modules, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed sale will improve Kuwait\u2019s capability to meet current and future threats by enhancing the ability to defend itself against regional malign actors and improve interoperability with systems operated by US forces and other Gulf countries,\u201d the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said.<\/p>\n<p>The DCSA also expressed confidence that the new defensive equipment will allow the Middle Eastern nation to \u201cprotect its borders, energy infrastructure, and its residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has\u00a0approved\u00a0the foreign military sale of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and Medium Range Air Defense System (MRADS) to Kuwait for three billion dollars. Kuwait has requested 63 AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM); 63 AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II tactical missiles; 12 Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems \u2013 Low Volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[42,173,468,467,65],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-kuwait-army","tag-missile-system","tag-mrads","tag-nasams","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}