A significant milestone in the development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s maritime sovereignty has been reached with the launch of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces’ ship, ‘His Majesty King Saud,’ in the United States, marking the first warship in the strategic “Tuwaiq” project.
This launch marks the first application of the results of high-level military cooperation between the Royal Saudi Naval Forces and their international allies. Several questions come up in this situation: What is the Tuwaiq project? Why is the Kingdom modernising its naval fleet? And what is its strategic…

