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By Prashanth Parameswaran
State Department clears fresh sales for two key Southeast Asian partners.
The U.S State Department approved potential new multi-million dollar missile sales to Indonesia and Malaysia earlier this week.
The approvals were part of a set of five deals that the State Department cleared for U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific worth almost $3.5 billion. As is usually the case and as U.S. law requires, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) delivered the required certification notifying Congress of the potential Foreign Military Sale (FMS), which will then have to be approved before the deals are agreed with the involvement of companies and allies and partners.
Read the full story at The Diplomat
NOTE: The “Possible Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia for AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder Missiles and Possible Foreign Military Sale to Malaysia for AIM-120C7 AMRAAM Missiles” Links in the above were added by PacificSentinel for clarity & context.