• Land Warfare

  WDS 2022: Nimr and Yahsat team up for vehicle-based SATCOM

  9th March 2022

  Pre-qualified communications-on-the-move solutions from Yahsat will be installed about Nimr vehicles.

• Digital Battlespace

  WDS 2022: New IP-based radio facilitates private military networks

  8th March 2022

  Thuraya PTT is designed to enable interoperability among multiple users with communications systems on land and at sea.

• Digital Battlespace

  Dubai Airshow 2021: Tawazun and Yahsat launch indigenous SATCOM manufacturing JV

  16th November 2021

  How will a new JV help the UAE to develop a self-sustaining SATCOM sector?

• Digital Battlespace

  UAE to develop indigenous SATCOM solutions

  24th February 2021

  Collaboration between UAE-based organisations focuses on the domestic production of critical aeronautical, modem and other advanced SATCOM technologies.

• Digital Battlespace

  Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to deliver surveillance satellites to UAE

  24th July 2013

  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. …

• Defence Helicopter

  Astrium AirPatrol SATCOM terminal now flight proven

  17th July 2012

  Astrium Services’ latest generation of SATCOM terminal, the AirPatrol, has completed flight tests and is now flight proven. It commenced flight trials with the Canadian …

• Digital Battlespace

  Thales, selected by the French Defence Procurement Agency as prime contractor for VENUS

  12th October 2009

  The French Defence Procurement Agency has awarded Thales the contractorship for the Urgent Operational Requirement VENUS (nomadic command vehicles communicating via satellite) in order to …

Equipment Results - Defence Insight

• Major networking projects

  COMCEPT

  In February 2013, the French DGA defence procurement agency awarded Astrium (now Airbus Defence & Space), and its partner ACTIA Sodielec (now ACTIA Telecom), a ...

• Corvettes

  Baynunah Class

  The Baynunah-class consists of six corvettes that were contracted for the UAE Navy under a joint effort between Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding and France's CMN. The vessels ...