Gemstone Arms Agreements

The Gemstone Arms Agreements were a series of arms agreements, based on reciprocal procurements, credit swaps, and exchanges of strategic technologies and raw materials made between the Raspur Pact and Sanama between the years 1675 and 1677 AN. The arrangements were in part a successor to the Oil for Arms agreement originally brokered between Benacia Command / UGB and the Sanaman Liberation Front during the travails of the Kalirion Fracture. The agreements had the ultimately salutatory effect of affording the Federal Armed Forces of Sanama greater access to the Allied Production Matrix, a most favoured nation perk implicit, but not overtly specified, in the Treaty of Mutual Defence between the Raspur Pact and Sanama, whilst enabling the armed forces of the Pact-aligned successor states in Benacia to redress some of the force imbalances inherited with their legacy armed forces such as the lack of rotary-wing aviation assets for tactical mobility as well as certain improved submarine designs.