U.S. State Department Approves Over $1.4 Billion Arms Sales for Estonia and Norway

The State Department on Friday (July 15) approved two potential major arms deals for NATO members Estonia and Norway, that combined are worth over $1.4 billion.

The potential deal approved for Norway is for AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and related equipment worth about $950 million. According to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the missiles will be used by Norway’s fleet of US-made F-35s.

The DSCA said that the sale will allow Norway’s F-35 fleet to “fulfill NATO missions and meet US European Command’s goal of combined air operations interoperability and standardization between Norwegian and US forces.”

The principal contractor for the Norway deal is Raytheon Missile Systems Company, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, where Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin served as a board member before taking his post at the Pentagon.

The deal approved for Estonia is for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and related equipment, a sale that’s worth up to $500 million.

Estonia shares a border with Russia.

Source: Antiwar.com

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