United Arab Emirates (UAE)

From low-cost drone interceptors to advanced cruise missiles to air-to-air missiles, the United Arab Emirates wants to do it all.

The United Arab Emirates is emerging as a hive for light attack and training aircraft developments with further offers from Calidus and Edge Group.

Safran is teaming with India’s Bharat Electronics to produce Hammer modular air-to-surface bomb kits in India.

Turkish authorities have arrested three people for allegedly spying on the country’s defense industry on behalf of UAE intelligence agencies.

The United Arab Emirates is shifting its space program focus to economic gains and security, blending civil-military efforts in a bid to become a space power.

For Emirates’ long-haul fleet, the challenge is twofold: maintaining aging widebodies while looking beyond their likely life spans to the next big thing.

Airbus has forged an agreement with UAE-based Calidus that could potentially lead to the creation of an MRO facility for the A400M airlifter in the UAE.

Under the agreement, signed during the Dubai Airshow and announced Nov. 21, Mubadala’s Strata aircraft parts-making unit would get work packages on the A400M.

For years the question for the AAM market was about technology. Now the question is market viability.

Archer and Joby have both announced plans to launch flight testing in Saudi Arabia, part of an effort to establish air taxi services in the kingdom.

MBDA plans to develop loitering munitions in the UAE through a partnership with French startup Fly-R and the Tawazun Council for Defense Enablement.

Joby Aviation has detailed the path by which it hopes to gain approval to launch passenger operations in the United Arab Emirates.

A second homegrown turboprop trainer looks set to emerge from Emirati industry this time in partnership with a Chinese manufacturer.

Spain’s Indra and United Arab Emirates (UAE) defense firm Calidus have forged an agreement on the development of a pilot training center.

President Donald Trump says he will approve the sale of Lockheed Martin F-35s to Saudi Arabia as that country’s crown prince is set to visit Washington.

Lockheed Martin is seeing growing interest in its Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to provide a 360-deg. field of vision for air and missile defense.

The UAE Armed Forces will acquire at least one Embraer Praetor 600 as a VIP aircraft in the first military aircraft deal of the Dubai Airshow.

An armed version of a Bombardier Global 6500 business jet designed for maritime patrol missions remains in demand in the Gulf region, according to an executive from the Canadian airframer.

Embraer has withdrawn a proposal to open a final assembly center in Saudi Arabia for the C-390 in favor of offering a regional completion center for the airlifter in the UAE.

The United Arab Emirates is looking to develop an indigenous launch option as part of a broader pivot to secure a share of the growing space economy.

The UAE government is working toward making the use of sustainable aviation fuel mandatory in the country as a key component of its SAF policy roadmap.

The United Arab Emirates Air Force's newly re-equipped Fursan Al-Emarat display team is flying the Chinese Hongdu L-15 advanced jet trainer at the Dubai Airshow for the first time.

GE Aerospace is set to break ground on a $50 million On Wing Support maintenance facility for CFM Leap-1 and GE9X in Dubai.

IER MRO Industries plans to add GEnx engine capability to the lineup of narrowbody engines it will service at its greenfield site in Dubai.

UAE-based Space42 added to its synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation with Iceye-made satellites that have undergone work in Abu Dhabi.