Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia, the Glossary

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1. 134 relations: Abdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Advanced Electronics Company Limited, AGS-30, Air chief marshal, AK-103, Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Sulayyil ballistic missile base, Al Wajh, Al-Fahd, Al-Faris 8-400, Al-Kharj, Al-Wadiah War, Al-Watah ballistic missile base, Al-Yamamah arms deal, AN/FPS-117, AN/TPS-43, Angela Merkel, Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, Ba'athist Iraq, Bahrain, Battle of Khafji, Bell 212, Chairman of the General Staff, Coalition of the Gulf War, Commander-in-chief, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Dammam, DF-3A, Dhahran, Eurofighter Typhoon, European Parliament, Fayyadh Al Ruwaili, Foreign Military Studies Office, Free Officers movement (Egypt), General Directorate of Border Guard, Global Affairs Canada, Grand Mosque seizure, Gulf War, Houthi insurgency, Houthi movement, Iran, Iran–Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Iraq War, Iraqi no-fly zones conflict, Israel Defense Forces, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Military Communications, Jeddah, ... Expand index (84 more) »

2. 1745 establishments in Asia
3. 18th-century establishments in the Arabian Peninsula
4. Military of Saudi Arabia
5. Military units and formations established in 1745

Abdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Abdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (عبد الرحمن بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, ʿAbd ar Raḥman ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd; 1931 – 13 July 2017) was a senior member of the House of Saud and Saudi Arabian deputy minister of defense and aviation.

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Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (عبد الله بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd, Najdi Arabic pronunciation:; 1 August 1924 – 23 January 2015) was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015.

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Advanced Electronics Company Limited

Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) is a company in Saudi Arabia that was established in 1988 under the Economic Offset Program as per the directives of the government of Saudi Arabia.

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AGS-30

The AGS-30 is a Russian automatic grenade launcher currently in production in Russia and in service with the Russian armed forces.

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Air chief marshal

Air chief marshal (Air Chf Mshl or ACM) is a high-ranking air officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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AK-103

The AK-103 is an assault rifle designed by Russian small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.

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Al Sulayyil ballistic missile base

The Al Sulayyil ballistic missile base is a Saudi ballistic missile facility near the town of Al-Sulayyil, 450 km southwest of the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.

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Al Wajh

Al Wajh (الوجه), also written Al Wejh, is a coastal city in north-western Saudi Arabia, situated on the coast of the Red Sea.

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Al-Fahd

The Al-Fahd is an armoured fighting vehicle used by the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia.

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Al-Faris 8-400

The Al-Faris 8-400 Armored Personnel Carrier, produced by the Abdullah Al-Faris Heavy Industries company, is part of the Al-Faris 8-400 family of armoured vehicles.

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Al-Kharj

Kharj (الخرج) is a governorate in central Saudi Arabia.

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Al-Wadiah War

The al-Wadiah War was a military conflict which broke out on 27 November 1969 between Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of South Yemen (PRSY) after disputes for the town of al-Wadiah on the PRSY-Saudi Arabian border.

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Al-Watah ballistic missile base

Al-Watah ballistic missile base is a ballistic missile facility in the low but quite rocky mountains near the town of Al-Watah, Saudi Arabia, 200 km west-southwest of Riyadh.

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Al-Yamamah arms deal

Al Yamamah (translation) is the name of a series of record arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, paid for by the delivery of up to of crude oil per day to the British government.

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AN/FPS-117

The AN/FPS-117 is an L-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) 3-dimensional air search radar first produced by GE Aerospace in 1980 and now part of Lockheed Martin.

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AN/TPS-43

The AN/TPS-43 is a transportable air search 3D radar produced in the United States originally by Westinghouse Defense and Electronic Division, which was later purchased by Northrop-Grumman.

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Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel (born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office.

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Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist, was killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Ba'athist Iraq

Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

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Bahrain

Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.

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Battle of Khafji

The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War.

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Bell 212

The Bell 212 (also known as the Bell Two-Twelve) is a two-blade, twin-engine, medium helicopter that first flew in 1968.

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Chairman of the General Staff

The Chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (abbreviated COGS) also known as the "Chief of the General Staff" is the chief and highest ranking officer of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces.

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Coalition of the Gulf War

On 29 November 1990, the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 authorized the assembly of a multinational military coalition to fight against Iraq in the Gulf War.

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Commander-in-chief

A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.

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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia (ولي عهد المملكة العربية السعودية.) is the second-most important position in Saudi Arabia, second to the King, and is his designated successor.

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Dammam

Dammam (الدمّام) is the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

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DF-3A

The DF-3A (NATO: CSS-2) is a Chinese liquid-fueled, single-stage, nuclear medium-range ballistic missile that entered service in 1971.

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Dhahran

Dhahran (translit) is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

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Eurofighter Typhoon

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Fayyadh Al Ruwaili

Fayyadh bin Hamed bin Raqed Al Ruwaili (born 27 April 1958)Karasik, Theodore (18 May 2014).

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Foreign Military Studies Office

The Foreign Military Studies Office, or FMSO, is a research and analysis center for the United States Army that is part of the United States Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth.

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Free Officers movement (Egypt)

The Free Officers (Ḥarakat al-dubbāṭ al-ʾaḥrār) were a group of revolutionary Egyptian nationalist officers in the Egyptian Armed Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces that instigated the Egyptian revolution of 1952.

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General Directorate of Border Guard

The General Directorate of Border Guard (المديرية العامة لحرس الحدود السعودية.) is a Saudi agency responsible for guarding land and sea borders of the Kingdom.

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Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs Canada (GAC; Affaires mondiales Canada; AMC)Global Affairs Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

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Grand Mosque seizure

The Grand Mosque seizure was a siege that took place between 20 November and 4 December 1979 at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, one the holiest Islamic sites in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Houthi insurgency

The Houthi insurgency, also known as the Houthi rebellion, the Sa'dah War, or the Sa'dah conflict, was a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis (though the movement also includes Sunnis) against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war.

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Houthi movement

The Houthi movement (الحوثيون), officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iran–Iraq War

The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.

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Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Iraqi no-fly zones conflict

The Iraqi no-fly zones conflict was a low-level conflict in the two no-fly zones (NFZs) in Iraq that were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War of 1991.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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Jane's Defence Weekly

Jane's Defence Weekly (abbreviated as JDW) is a weekly magazine reporting on military and corporate affairs, edited by Peter Felstead.

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Jane's Military Communications

Jane's Military Communications is an annual reference book (also published online) covering military communications and advances in the equipment used by various armed forces.

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Jeddah

Jeddah, alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (جِدَّة|Jidda), is a port city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region.

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Jizan

Jizan (Jīzān), also spelled Jazan (Jāzān), Gizan or Gazan, is a port city and the capital of Jizan Region, which lies in the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia.

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Jubail

Jubail (الجبيل, Al Jubayl) is a city in the Eastern province on the Persian Gulf coast of, with a total population of 474,679 as of 2022.

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Khalid bin Salman Al Saud

Khalid bin Salman Al Saud (خالد بن سلمان آل سعود Khālid bin Salmān Āl Suʿūd; born 1988) is a Saudi Arabian diplomat, and politician who serves as the Saudi Arabian minister of defense.

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Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud

Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud (خالد بن سلطان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; born 24 September 1949) is the former deputy minister of defense and a member of the House of Saud.

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Khamis Mushait

Khamis Mushayt or Khamis Mushait (خميس مشيط,, locally) is a city in south-west Saudi Arabia, located east of Abha, the provincial seat of the 'Asir Province, 650 nautical miles from Dhahran and from the national capital of Riyadh.

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Khobar Towers bombing

The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on 25 June 1996.

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King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST; مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز للعلوموالتقنية) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a governmental organization established in 1977 as the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology (SANCST); in 1985, it was renamed King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.

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King Khalid Military City

King Khalid Military City (KKMC) (مدينة الملك خالد العسكرية; transliterated: Medinat Al-Malek Khaled Al-Askariyah) is a cantonment in northeastern Saudi Arabia, approximately 60 km south of Hafar al-Batin city.

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King of Saudi Arabia

The King of Saudi Arabia, officially the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (ملك المملكة العربية السعودية.), is the monarch and head of state/government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who holds absolute power.

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Kuwait

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.

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Learjet

Learjet was a manufacturer of business jets for civilian and military use based in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Library of Congress Country Studies

The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the United States Library of Congress, freely available for use by researchers.

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List of airports in Saudi Arabia

This is a list of airports in Saudi Arabia, grouped by type and sorted by location.

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List of countries with highest military expenditures

This is a list of countries with the highest military expenditure in a given year.

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List of Saudi rulers

This is a list of rulers of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom on the Arabian Peninsula.

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List of wars involving Saudi Arabia

This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its predecessor states.

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Lockheed Martin

The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer with worldwide interests.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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M60 tank

The M60 is an American second-generation main battle tank (MBT).

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McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing).

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McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle

The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Meteorology

Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting.

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Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations.

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Military Industries Corporation

Military Industries Corporation (MIC or SAMIC; المؤسسة العامة للصناعات الحربية) is a state-owned enterprise in Saudi Arabia founded in 1953.

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Military ranks of Saudi Arabia

The Military ranks of Saudi Arabia are the military insignia used by the Military Forces of Saudi Arabia. Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and military ranks of Saudi Arabia are military of Saudi Arabia.

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MIM-23 Hawk

The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK ("Homing All the Way Killer") is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile.

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Ministry of Defense (Saudi Arabia)

The Ministry of Defense (MoD; وزارة الدفاع) is a Ministry in Saudi Arabia that is responsible for the protection of national security, interests and sovereignty of the country from external threats as well as the working with all ministries of the state to achieve national security and stability. Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and ministry of Defense (Saudi Arabia) are military of Saudi Arabia.

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Ministry of Interior (Saudi Arabia)

The Ministry of Interior (MoI; Arabic: وزارة الداخلية) is one of the governmental bodies of Saudi Arabia responsible for national security, naturalization, immigration, and customs in Saudi Arabia.

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Ministry of National Guard

The Ministry of National Guard is a cabinet-level ministry and one of the major military sectors of the Government of Saudi Arabia, responsible for security and national defence matters. Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and ministry of National Guard are military of Saudi Arabia.

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Mohammed bin Salman

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (translit; born 31 August 1985), popularly known by his initials as MBS or MbS, is the heir apparent to the Saudi Arabian throne.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).

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Najd

Najd (نَجْدٌ) is the central region of Saudi Arabia, in which about a third of the country's modern population resides.

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Non-commissioned officer

A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who does not hold a commission.

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Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is not known to have a nuclear weapons program.

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Operation Scorched Earth

Operation Scorched Earth (Arabic: عملية الأرض المحروقة) was the code-name of a Yemeni military offensive in the Saada Governorate that began in August 2009.

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Panavia Tornado

The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multi-role combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany.

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People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Prince Sultan Advanced Technology Research Institute

Prince Sultan Advanced Technology Research Institute (PSATRI, Arabic: معهد الأمير سلطان لأبحاث التقنيات المتقدمة, Ma'ahad Al-Amir Sultan le-abhas al-taqniat al-motaqaddemah) is an independent scientific organization of the Saudi government, located in the College of Engineering at King Saud University in the capital city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Ras Mishab Airport

Ras Mishab Airport is a small military airfield in the naval complex of Ras Mishab on the Persian Gulf about northwest of Jubail in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

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Regimental combat team

A regimental combat team (RCT) is a provisional major infantry unit which has seen use by branches of the United States Armed Forces.

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Riyadh

Riyadh (ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.

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Rosoboronexport

JSC Rosoboronexport (AO Рособоронэкспорт, Rosoboroneksport) is the sole state intermediary agency for Russia's exports/imports of defense-related and dual use products, technologies and services.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces

The Saudi Arabian Air Defense Forces or officially Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces (RSADF) (قُوَّات الدِفَاع الجوّي المَلكِيَّ السُّعُودِي) is the aerial defense service branch of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces.

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Royal Saudi Air Force

The Royal Saudi Air Force (Al-Quwwat Al-Jawiyah Al-Malakiyah as-Su’udiyah) (RSAF) is the aviation branch of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces.

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Royal Saudi Navy

The Royal Saudi Navy (Al-Quwwat al-Bahriyah al-Arabiyah as-Su'udiyah) or Royal Saudi Naval Forces (Al-Quwwat al-Bahriyah al-Malakiyah as-Su'udiyah), is the maritime arm of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces and one of the five service branches of the Ministry of Defense of Saudi Arabia. Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and Royal Saudi Navy are 18th-century establishments in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force

The Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force (RSSMF; quwwa aṣ-ṣawārīkh al-ʾistrātījiyya al-milkiyya as-Saʿūdiyya) is the fifth branch of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces, responsible for commissioning long-range strategic missiles.

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Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.

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Salman of Saudi Arabia

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (translit; born 31 December 1935) is King of Saudi Arabia, reigning since 2015, and was also Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2022.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Saudi Arabian Army

The Saudi Arabian Army, officially the Royal Saudi Land Forces (Al-Quwwat al-Bariyah al-Malakiyah as-Su'udiyah), is the principle land warfare branch of the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia. Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabian Army are 18th-century establishments in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Saudi Arabian Military Forces

The Saudi Arabian Military Forces (‎القوات العسكرية العربية السعودية Al-Quwwat al-Askariyah Arabīyah as-Su’ūdiyah) (SAMF) is the umbrella term for all the military forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabian Military Forces are 1745 establishments in Asia, 18th-century establishments in the Arabian Peninsula, military of Saudi Arabia and military units and formations established in 1745.

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Saudi Arabian Military Industries

SAMI is a state-owned defense company launched in May 2017 by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).

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Saudi Arabian National Guard

The Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) (al-Ḥaras al-Waṭanī), also known as the White Army, is one of the three major branches of the military forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Royal Guard Regiment

The Saudi Arabian Royal Guard (الحرس الملكي السعودي Al-Ḥars al-Malakī as-Suʿūdī) is a unit in the Saudi military forces.

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Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war

On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, launched an intervention in Yemen at the request of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been ousted from the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 by Houthi insurgents during the Yemeni Civil War.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Sharif of Mecca

The Sharif of Mecca (Sharīf Makkah) or Hejaz (Sharīf al-Ḥijāz) was the title of the leader of the Sharifate of Mecca, traditional steward of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the surrounding Hejaz.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm.

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Sultan bin Abdulaziz

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (c. 5 January 1928 – 22 October 2011) (سلطان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود, Sulṭān ibn ʿAbdulʿazīz Āl Suʿūd), called Sultan the Good (سلطان الخير, Sulṭan al Khair) in Saudi Arabia, was the Saudi defense minister from 1963 to 2011 and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his death in October 2011.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Surface combatant

Surface combatants (or surface ships or surface vessels) are a subset of naval warships which are designed for warfare on the surface of the water, with their own weapons and armed forces.

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Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Tabuk (تَبُوْك) is the capital city of the Tabuk Region in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

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Taif

Taif (اَلطَّائِفُ|translit.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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TOS-1

TOS-1 Buratino (Tyazhyelaya ognemyetnaya sistema, Heavy Flamethrower System) is a Soviet 220 mm 30-barrel (original system, Object 634 or TOS-1M) or 24-barrel (Object 634B or TOS-1A Solntsepyok) multiple rocket launcher capable of using thermobaric warheads, mounted on a T-72 / T-90 tank chassis.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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United States Fifth Fleet

The Fifth Fleet is a numbered fleet of the United States Navy.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.

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Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from 6 to 25 October 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.

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14 July Revolution

The 14 July Revolution, also known as the 1958 Iraqi military coup, was a coup d'état that took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq which resulted in the toppling of King Faisal II and the overthrow of the Hashemite-led Kingdom of Iraq.

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1952 Egyptian revolution

The Egyptian revolution of 1952 (ثورة 23 يوليو), also known as the 1952 coup d'état (انقلاب 1952) and 23 July Revolution, was a period of profound political, economic, and societal change in Egypt.

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1973 oil crisis

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.

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2017 United States–Saudi Arabia arms deal

On May 20, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud signed a series of letters of intent for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to purchase arms from the United States totaling US$110 billion immediately, and $350 billion over 10 years.

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32nd parallel north

The 32nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 32 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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33rd parallel north

The 33rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 33 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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3D radar

3D radar provides for radar ranging and direction in three dimensions.

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See also

1745 establishments in Asia

• Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
• Chisapani Gadhi
• Saudi Arabian Military Forces
• Sultan of Selangor

18th-century establishments in the Arabian Peninsula

• Al Hukm Palace
• Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
• Emirate of Diriyah
• Ministry of War (Saudi Arabia)
• Royal Saudi Navy
• Saudi Arabian Army
• Saudi Arabian Military Forces

Military of Saudi Arabia

• Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
• Military history of Saudi Arabia
• Military ranks of Saudi Arabia
• Ministry of Defense (Saudi Arabia)
• Ministry of National Guard
• Saudi Arabian Military Forces

Military units and formations established in 1745

• Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
• Duke of Kingston's Regiment of Light Horse
• Jacobite Army (1745)
• Leith Station
• Manchester Regiment (Jacobite)
• Saudi Arabian Military Forces
• The Derbyshire Blues

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Saudi_Arabia

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