IHS Jane’s 360:
Saudi Arabia has ordered the latest PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missile for its Patriot air defence systems, a US Department of Defense contract announcement confirmed on 11 March.
It said Lockheed Martin’s Missile and Fire Control division had been awarded a USD73 million contract modification “to exercise a Patriot option adding 64 1-pack Missile Segment Enhancement missiles and reducing 64 Cost Reduction Initiative [CRI] missiles”.
Previous US documentation has said Saudi Arabia would get the CRI version of the PAC-3, not the MSE, which is more manoeuvrable and has a longer range.
