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Nov 5, 2026
Saudi Arabia's Big Missile Reveal
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Jeffrey LewisHOST
But the other thing that I wanted to talk about, which is like the big update, which is why we're sort of focusing on the Saudi program and we should sort of, you know, when we're done, like step back and like, you know, what does all this mean? But the other thing is, Sam, you noticed that there was a substantial expansion of the Chinese supplied solid propellant production facility near al-Dawadmi.
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10:17Sam LehrerGUEST
Yeah, so when we saw the record show up in Yemen, I initially was curious about which bases it might have been fired from because the DF-15 has a particular range.
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10:25Sam LehrerGUEST
I think it's like 700-ish kilometers, and that means that a number of Saudi bases are kind of ineligible as launch sites.
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10:32Sam LehrerGUEST
But co-located with one of those launch sites, there's a missile base at a place called Al Dwadmi, and then it also is where, as Jeffrey said, the Chinese-supplied solid propellant rocket motor facility is.
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10:48Sam LehrerGUEST
And I went and looked at it and said, wow, there's a bunch of construction happening here.
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10:53Sam LehrerGUEST
And then Michael Dutzman and I worked together to write up a short report, which eventually got published by Reuters, who went down and tracked down a couple of other things about it.
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11:04Sam LehrerGUEST
But it looks like the Saudis are roughly doubling – the casting infrastructure there.
17 MINS LATER