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.

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 …

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 ...