{"id":38833,"date":"2025-11-18T00:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-us-to-sell-f-35-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:51:37","slug":"trump-us-to-sell-f-35-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/trump-us-to-sell-f-35-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: US to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump announced his intention to approve the sale of 48 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia ahead of a meeting with the Crown Prince. This multi-billion dollar deal could shift the balance of power in the Middle East and face resistance in the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2F1763425662-2193-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Trump: US to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump announced his intention to approve the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. He said this on November 17 at the White House ahead of a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, UNN reports with reference to Reuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I will say that we will do it. We will sell F-35s<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The transfer of 48 aircraft is planned, a multi-billion dollar deal has already passed a key approval stage at the Pentagon. Saudi Arabia has been seeking to modernize its air force and counter threats from Iran, seeking access to these fighter jets for many years.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of F-35s to Riyadh would be a significant change in US policy and could affect the military balance in the Middle East, including Israel&#039;s &quot;qualitative military edge&quot; principle, which ensures that Israel receives the most advanced weapons before other states in the region. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has had F-35s for almost a decade and has created several squadrons of these aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Trump administration approves $3.5 billion air defense system sale to Germany15.11.25, 05:22 \u2022 6634 views<\/p>\n<p>The deal may face resistance in the US Congress, where some lawmakers oppose deepening military cooperation with Riyadh, especially after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Biden administration also considered transferring F-35s to Saudi Arabia as part of a broader diplomatic agreement that included the normalization of relations between Riyadh and Israel, but the process did not move forward at the time.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>It was previously reported that the United States may sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#039;s visit to the White House on Tuesday, November 18. The agreements will include a possible F-35 contract and LNG imports, as well as discussions on access to AI chips and nuclear technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine orders 100 Rafale fighter jets &#8211; Zelenskyy17.11.25, 11:34 \u2022 2290 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump announced his intention to approve the sale of 48 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia ahead of a meeting with the Crown Prince. This multi-billion dollar deal could shift the balance of power in the Middle East and face resistance in the US Congress. US President Donald Trump announced his intention to approve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}