🇸🇦🇮🇷 Satellite images show Saudi Arabia doubling its ballistic missile factory to build longer-range weapons on Chinese designs, with the first ones possible by New Year's The new casting hall at al-Duwadimi, 125 miles west of Riyadh, is twice the size of the old one and ringed with blast walls, and three separate analyst shops read it as the jump from the DF-15s Riyadh already fires into Yemen toward a DF-21-class missile that reaches Tehran. The digging started in April 2025, ten months before the Iran war, so this was a decision about America before it was a decision about Iran. Riyadh spent decades buying F-15s and Patriots and discovered this year that Washington won't sell the one weapon that deters Tehran, can't resupply the interceptors fast enough, and may bomb Iran again without asking. The fix is a Chinese missile line on Saudi soil, which means the next US president inherits a Gulf partner that no longer needs permission to retaliate. The possible casualty is the US-Saudi nuclear deal: a Senate that watches Riyadh build 1,000-mile missiles isn't going to hand it uranium enrichment, and MBS almost certainly knows it and built anyway. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel