Morocco, the biggest MENA region customer for American arms in 2019

Morocco is the biggest MENA region customer for American arms in 2019, according to data compiled by the Forum on the Arms Trade from the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program and relayed by Forbes.

In fact, Rabat has concluded deals «worth some $10.3 billion, almost all of it going on the Royal Moroccan Air Force» in 2019, the American magazine said.

The same source explains that in March 2019, the US «State Department announced a deal to sell $3.8 billion worth of F-16 aircraft and associated equipment to Rabat».

Forbes recalls that Morocco «has also firmed up plans to upgrade its existing fleet of F‑16 fighter jets at a cost of $985 million and ordered 36 of the AH-64E Apache attack helicopters at a cost of some $4.25 billion».

While Morocco heads the list of MENA customers, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait come second agreeing $14.2 billion worth of deals.