Days after Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to White House, the country is set to receive AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) from the United States. The deal will kick off a new phase in defence cooperation between the two countries. The move was confirmed in a statement by the US Department of War (DoW).

Pakistan to receive advanced AMRAAM missiles from the US

The recently modified arms contract, notified by the DoW (US Department of War), lists Pakistan as one of the confirmed buyers of the missile system. The company behind the manufacturing, Raytheon, based in Tucson, Arizona, received an additional USD 41.6 million payment on a previous contract (FA8675-23-C-0037) for the production of AMRAAM’s C8 and D3 variants, bringing the total contract value to ov

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