Saudi Arabia: EADS, Thales, Raytheon and Miksa border programmenote

EADS with its Saudi partner Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting Co. (RTCC) are still reported to be in a good position to win the phase 3 of the Miksa border surveillance programme, which concerns the Saudi border with Yemen and Oman. The following 480-word report included in Tactical Weekly of March 6, 2009 focuses on the subject and tells what the positions of other contractors concerned by this programme are, notably those of Raytheon, Thales and Finmeccanica.