An Australian defence company behind hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of next-generation weapons systems to Saudi Arabia and the UAE has denied its weapons are being used in the war in Yemen.
EOS chief executive Ben Greene told the Guardian that shipments to the UAE, uncovered in an ABC story last December, related to a ‘demonstration unit’ which had no ‘lethality whatsoever.’
EOS and the Australian Defence Department have declined to name the recipient of the weapons system, citing national security and ‘commercial-in-confidence concerns’.