{"id":2144,"date":"2017-05-31T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T08:32:14","slug":"saudi-arabia-set-for-6-billion-deal-to-purchase-4-frigates-based-on-freedom-class-lcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/31\/saudi-arabia-set-for-6-billion-deal-to-purchase-4-frigates-based-on-freedom-class-lcs\/","title":{"rendered":"SAUDI ARABIA SET FOR $6 BILLION DEAL TO PURCHASE 4 FRIGATES BASED ON FREEDOM-CLASS LCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2145\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-560x372.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/LCS-SAUDI-ARABIA.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : USNI News<\/p>\n<p>By: Sam LaGrone<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is set to pull the trigger on a $6-billion deal to purchase four Lockheed Martin-built frigates based on the company\u2019s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship, as part of a major Foreign Military Sales case, USNI News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The deal \u2013 part of the overall $110-billion FMS case \u2013 is intended to be announced during President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Riyadh on Saturday, administration sources confirmed to USNI News on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase of the four frigates for the Royal Saudi Navy is set to be the centerpiece of a refresh of the country\u2019s Eastern Fleet as part of the Saudi Naval Expansion Program II. SNEP II has been in the works for more than a decade and is estimated to cost a total of $20 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2017\/05\/19\/saudi-arabia-set-6b-lockheed-martin-frigate-deals-part-massive-110b-u-s-arms-sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : USNI News By: Sam LaGrone Saudi Arabia is set to pull the trigger on a $6-billion deal to purchase four Lockheed Martin-built frigates based on the company\u2019s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship, as part of a major Foreign Military Sales case, USNI News has learned. The deal \u2013 part of the overall $110-billion FMS&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/31\/saudi-arabia-set-for-6-billion-deal-to-purchase-4-frigates-based-on-freedom-class-lcs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAUDI ARABIA SET FOR $6 BILLION DEAL TO PURCHASE 4 FRIGATES BASED ON FREEDOM-CLASS LCS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1532,1533,1531,171,1530],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-freedom-class","tag-littoral-combat-ship","tag-royal-saudi-navy","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-naval-expansion-program-ii","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}