WASHINGTON -- On Monday, in an all-but-unreported news item, the Pentagon announced that it would be paying $946 million to Lockheed Martin toward the installation of a missile defense system that was purchased -- not by the United States government -- but by Saudi Arabia. In other words, the Pentagon is paying nearly $1 billion to subsidize a
US Taxpayers On the Hook for Nearly $1 Billion in Saudi Arabia’s Recent Missile Defense Purchase
The U.S. government continues to scramble to keep its allies from buying its THAAD missile defense system’s top competitor, the Russian S-400. Unfortunately for them, it’s the U.S. taxpayers who are footing the bill.