Parcel delivery by unmanned air vehicle is capturing the imagination of UAV manufacturers and the shopping public alike, prompting a multiplicity of start-up projects. In an already crowded field, AGC Managing Partner Alexander Ostrovoy believes he has a winner.

Abu Dhabi-based Calidus burst onto the aeronautical scene exactly two years ago when the B-250 prototypes — one flying, one statically exhibited — were unveiled at DWC, to general surprise, on the opening day of the show.

Global maintenance specialist Lufthansa Technik has doubled the size of its Middle East center in the Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace Hub, at Dubai South, in the year since it opened, and now offers airlines more services from there.

The United Arab Emirates Air Force’s new airborne early warning platform, the Saab GlobalEye, has made its public debut four years after contracts were signed at the Dubai Airshow.

It is not just in naval training where the UAE is taking a lead. The nation is also in the process of standing up a comprehensive system to train its RPAS pilots, sensor operators and mission specialists.

Despite tensions between Gulf Cooperation Council states, the Iranian missile threat requires regional cooperation as the “best shot to defend the UAE is not always from the UAE. It may be Qatar or Oman,” says U.S. Air Force chief of staff Gen. David Goldfein.

As it enters its eighth decade, the Farnborough Airshow remains one of the world's pre-eminent aerospace events. But it faces a number of challenges, all outside of its control, which have forced organizers into some significant changes ahead of the 2020 edition.

Complex operations in Syria, conducted between September 2015 and April 2018, have emerged as the best and most comprehensive proving ground for hardware produced by Russia’s defense industry.