The UAE has ordered two surveillance satellites from Astrium and Thales Alenia Space in a contract valued at $913 million, it emerged on 23 July.
Under the Falcon Eye agreement two high-resolution Helios-type military observation satellites and a ground station will be delivered to the armed forces including training for 20 UAE engineers.
In a joint statement France and the UAE said that the agreement comes as part of the strategic partnership framework discussed in January 2013 by the UAE president Sheik Khalifa and French President François Hollande.
‘The UAE and France have enjoyed a strong and effective bilateral relationship,
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Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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