في عام 1985 قامت المملكة العربية السعودية بشراء نظام القيادة والسيطرة والاتصالات والاستخبارات (C3I) ضمن برنامج درع السلام.
In 1985 Saudi Arabia contracted with a consortium headed by Boeing for the Peace Shield command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) system.
وكان الغرض من الصفقة ربط المعلومات التي يتم جمعها من قبل طائرات الاواكس ورادارت المراقبة الأرضية مع المقاتلات والدفاع الجوي الأرضي بما في ذلك أنظمة هوك الصاروخية لتوفير الدفاع الجوي المتكامل .
فكرة برنامج درع السلام تعود الى 1980 و أبرمت الصفقة في 1985 و أصبح النظام في الخدمة التشغيلية الكاملة عام 1996 م ..
Conceived in the early 1980s, the Peace Shield program was not begun until 1985. Procurement of the Peace Shield system was conducted a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) with the Electronic Systems Division (ESD) of the US Air Force managing the contract. Hughes Aircraft Company (now Raytheon) was awarded a contract worth US$837 million by ESD for the Peace Shield program. The schedule requirements of 54 months to deliver a Peace Shield system were thought by many people to be impossible. There were some estimates as high as 116 months. They actually met 47 months. Total program cost was US$5.6 billion. Peace Shield became operational in late 1996 and is being continually upgraded under a maintenance and development program.
درع السلام يشمل:-
مركز قيادة العمليات المركزية , المراكز الإقليمية , رادارات بعيدة المدى
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/sa-peace-shield.htmThe Peace Shield system allows the Royal Saudi Air Force to manage its airborne and ground-based resources. It includes a Central Command Operations Center, regional centers, long-range radars, and a number of remote facilities. Raytheon, as the system developer, continues to sustain the system under a direct contract to the Royal Saudi Air Force