The Al-Yamamah contract, a government-to-government agreement for the sale of Tornado, IDS/ADV, Hawk and PC9 was signed by Michael Heseltine and HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud in 1986. BAE Systems are the prime contractors supplying not only the hardware, but a full "turn-key" package including design, construction, training and support. This has broadened in time into a range of activities as the Saudi-British Defence Co-operation Programme. We currently employ some 5,000 people in Saudi Arabia.
Good working relationships have been developed with our Saudi customer and these were reinforced during the Gulf conflict.
