Editing Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia (section)

===Army===
{{main|Royal Saudi Land Forces}}
[[File:Saudi UH-60 Desert Storm.JPEG|thumbnail|Saudi Arabian army [[UH-60]] Blackhawk helicopter during [[Operation Desert Shield (Gulf War)|Operation Desert Shield]]]]
The [[Royal Saudi Land Forces]] are composed of three armored brigades, five mechanized brigades, one airborne brigade, one Royal Guard brigade, and eight artillery battalions. The army also has one aviation command with two aviation brigades.<ref name="Library of Congress 2006"/>

The army's main equipment consists of a combination of French- and U.S.-made armored vehicles: 315 M–1A2 Abrams, 290 [[AMX–30]], and 450 [[M60A3]] main battle tanks; 300 reconnaissance vehicles; 570+ AMX–10P and 400 M–2 Bradley armored infantry fighting vehicles; 3,000+ M113 and 100 Al-Fahd armored personnel carriers, produced in Saudi Arabia; 200+ towed artillery pieces; 110 self-propelled artillery pieces; 60 multiple rocket launchers; 400 mortars; 10 surface-to-surface missiles; about 2,000 antitank guided weapons; about 200 rocket launchers; 450 recoilless launchers; 12 attack helicopters; 50+ transport helicopters; and 1,000 surface-to-air missiles.<ref name="Library of Congress 2006"/>

In 1996 Saudi Arabia had military cities in the northeast, the [[King Khalid Military City]], at Tabuk, at Dharhran, and at Abha in the southwest. There was a 1996 report that construction of a military city at [[Jizan]], orientated toward Yemen, had begun with Defense Minister Prince Sultan pouring the first concrete on 8 May 1996.<ref>James Bruce, "Saudis building military city on Yemen border", ''[[Jane's Defence Weekly]]'', 15 May 1996, p.3</ref>

The [[Library of Congress Country Study]] for Saudi Arabia, issued in 1992, noted that "[t]he army has been chronically under strength, in the case of some units by an estimated 30 to 50 percent. These shortages have been aggravated by a relaxed policy that permitted considerable absenteeism and by a serious problem of retaining experienced technicians and [[non-commissioned officers]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Metz|first=Helen C|author-link=Helen Chapin Metz |title=Area Handbook Series: Saudi Arabia. A Country Study.|publisher=FEDERAL RESEARCH DIV, [[Library of Congress]]|location=Washington DC|year=1992|page=253|isbn=9780844407913}}</ref>