United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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Emirati defense conglomerate Edge Group has received additional orders for the HT-750 optionally manned turbine-powered light helicopter from the UAE.

DTX Group Chairman Hussein Lookmanjee discusses the road ahead following the company’s divestment from Drayton Aerospace last year.

Emirati defense group Edge and Qatar’s Barzan Holdings are to create a joint venture and begin cross border defense industrial cooperation.

India and the United Arab Emirates are working toward a strategic defense partnership following meetings between the leaders of the two countries.

Elroy Air and Barq Group have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture to produce the Chaparral hybrid-electric uncrewed cargo aircraft in Abu Dhabi.

The partnership between Viasat and United Arab Emirates-based Space42 to pursue the direct-to-device satellite communication business is in talks to partner with Indonesia’s main telecommunications operator.

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.