Lockheed's $15 Billion Saudi Deal at Risk After Khashoggi Death
- Unfinished missile sale endangered amid calls to block sales
- It underscores Trump’s $110 billion package was never for sure
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Lockheed Martin Corp.’s potential $15 billion sale to Saudi Arabia of its Thaad air-defense system may be the unfinished deal most vulnerable to growing congressional demands to stop providing arms to the desert kingdom after the killing of critic Jamal Khashoggi.
It also underscores that the $110 billion package of arms sales that President Donald Trump announced on his visit to the Gulf nation last year -- and has vowed to protect despite Khashoggi’s death -- was always aspirational at best.