Some believe that Saudi Arabia has an agreement with Pakistan to provide nuclear weapons [1].

Furthermore, Saudi Arabia has intermediate range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that were purchased from China.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24823846

I think the expectation is that they would get nukes from Pakistan.

It is rumored that they funded the research

Yes, there was a chart in the Economist last week that showed them at the top of the list in "defence" spending against GDP.

Saudi Arabia is the most important client (in cash) for military equipment to France, sadly.

Saudi Arabia has plenty of soldiers, they even have female fighter pilots.

The insanity is those jet fighter pilots are NOT ALLOW TO DRIVE.

The whole country is a nightmare waiting to happen once there is an economic crunch. The elite will be fine but their equivalent of the "middle-class" is completely screwed. They already have baked-in religious fundamentalism and they will most certainly turn to that in numbers.

We don't think of "poor people" in Saudi Arabia but there are plenty of people who have to work hard for a living there every day, I saw TV segment on taxi drivers who could have been just like any taxi driver in NYC.

> they even have female fighter pilots.

I think you may be getting confused with the UAE, which did a good PR job on its first female fighter pilot a couple of years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1...

Were they Saudis? I took taxis daily in Riyadh and I don't think I ever had a Saudi taxi driver, they were mostly Pakistanis or Yemenis with the odd Ethiopian.

Source on the female fighter pilots? All I could find were articles on UAE first female fighter pilot teaming up with a prince from SA to bomb.