Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
(asked on 11th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, have any British personnel accompanied the deployment of Giraffe radars to Riyadh since February 2020 to assist Saudi Arabia to track and identify objects in its airspace.
This question was answered on 16th November 2020
UK Defence personnel have accompanied the deployment of Giraffe radars to Riyadh. This deployment is purely defensive in nature and helps Saudi Arabia with the very real threats it faces.