The Joint Missile Air Defense Exercise Planning Conference kicked off on Thursday at the Air Force Operations Center at King Salman Air Base in the Middle Sector between specialists from the Royal Saudi Air Force, the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces, joint forces and US Air Forces.

The exercise aims at maintaining regional security and stability through simulating possible air threats, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

In another development, the Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Fayyadh bin Hamid Al-Ruwaili received in Riyadh Monday the UK Chief of Defense Staff’s Senior Advisor to Middle East and North Africa Air Marshal Martin Sampson.

During the meeting, they underscored the importance of bilateral cooperation and joint coordination in the defense and military fields and ways to develop them to achieve common interests between the two friendly countries.