On March 19, 2026, the US Department of State sent notifications to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale of weapons to the United Arab Emirates through the US Intergovernmental Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program for a total estimated amount of 8.464 billion dollars.
Radar antennas of the Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-7 Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) missile defense system of the United States in Alaska, image 12/9/2021 (c) The U.S. Missile Defense Agency
According to the notifications, the UAE supplies are expected to include:
- One Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) stationary missile warning system for integration with THAAD missile defense systems, as well as two additional command posts and two additional launchers for THAAD missile defense systems, with a total estimated cost of $4.5 billion. Currently, one AN/SPY-7 LRDR radar manufactured by Lockheed Martin with two S-band AFARS is deployed in the USA in Alaska (it was built in 2019-2021) as an element of the American GBMD missile defense system. Previously, the possibility of integrating the LRDR radar with the THAAD missile defense system was not reported. The UAE, according to known information, has two deployed batteries of the THAAD missile defense system (with standard AN/TPY-2 radars), which may have been damaged as a result of Iranian strikes in early March 2026.
- 10 new RTX Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS) systems for combating unmanned aerial vehicles, including 240 Coyote Block 2 interceptors, with a total cost of $2.1 billion.
- 400 RTX AIM-120C-7 or AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM medium-range guided air-to-air missiles, with a total cost of $1.22 billion.
- 1,500 small-sized Boeing GBU-39/B SDB Increment I guided aerial bombs and 1,200 sets of Boeing JDAM guided aerial bombs, as well as Link 16 data transmission equipment and a number of other subsystems for upgrading Lockheed Martin F-16E/F Desert Falcon fighters of the UAE Air Force, with a total cost of 644 million dollars.
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| A containerized version of the RTX Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS) with a Coyote Block 2 interceptor vehicle. |
| Source: RTX |
