Amid media reports that said Pakistan is likely to receive AIM-120 Advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM) from the US, Washington has come out with clarification saying that the country will not be supplying new missiles from the US.
"The Administration would like to emphasise that contrary to false media reports, no part of this referenced contract modification is for deliveries of new Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) to Pakistan," a statement from the US said.
The US clarified that the announcement in fact referred to “an amendment to an existing Foreign Military Sales contract for sustainment and spares for several countries, including Pakistan.”
United States Department of War (DoW) had said the the manufacturer of the beyond-visual-range (BVR) fire-and-forget AMRAAM Raytheon was given a modification of over USD 41.6 million on a "previously awarded contract (FA8675-23-C-0037)" based on "firm-fixed-price (P00026)" for the production of the missile's C8 and D3 variants.
The modification, which includes Pakistan among its foreign military sales recipients, raised the total value of the contract to over USD 2.51 billion.
"This contract involves foreign military sales to UK, Poland, Pakistan, Germany, Finland, Australia, Romania, Qatar, Oman, Korea, Greece, Switzerland, Portugal, Singapore, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Japan, Slovakia, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Norway, Spain, Kuwait, Finland, Sweden, Taiwan, Lithuania, Israel, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey," the notification had said.
