A new weapons mega-deal between UWE and France

Here’s a new multibillion-euro deal  to sell fighter planes and combat helicopters to the United Arab Emirates as it aims to boost military cooperation with UAE  as France considered UAE as the its ally in the Persian Gulf that’s why it makes with it this deal. 

The UAE contracts were signed as French President Emmanuel Macron visited the country on the first stop of a two-day visit to the Persian Gulf. France and Gulf countries have long been concerned by Iran’s nuclear ambitions and influence across the region, particularly in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

France has particularly deep ties to the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula. France has a naval base there and French warplanes and personnel also are stationed in a major facility outside the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi.