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World arms trade volume did not exceed annually $30 billion in the 2000s while the U.S.-Saudi Arabia arms deal which was announced by the Obama administration and notified to Congress is $ 60 billion worth. The deal is a record not only for the arms trade history of the Middle East but for the world. In the Cold War era the U.S. made such a huge arms deal neither with the Bloc members nor with other allies. And in the post-Cold War era even the U.S. is the top arms supplier in world arms trade, it did not make an arms deal in this amount. The paper which analyzes the lying reasons and expectations in the background of this arms deal, also examines the regional effects of the deal. In this context, the study argues that with U.S.- Saudi arms deal, a new era has started in the armament of the Middle East. It also claims that the future of the regional stability depends on the prospective policies of the regional countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]