Annonce

**medDZ** · 18 juillet 2013, 14h31

Les Russes achètent 2 drones par ci, 1 drone par la, Mmmmmmmm
ça sent le reverse engineering

**mansali06** · 18 juillet 2013, 14h40

La Russie n’achètera pas des drones à l'étranger

Le pays a déjà établi sa propre production, la Russie ne va pas acheter des véhicules aériens sans pilote (UAV) à l'étranger, a déclaré le directeur du Service fédéral pour la coopération militaro-technique Alexandre Fomine.

Auparavant, la Russie avait acheté des drones en Israël pour un montant de 400 millions de dollars.

Le fonctionnaire a rappelé que l'Union soviétique a inventé le premier drone sur la base de l'avion Tu-154 dans les années 1960.

**Adama** · 19 juillet 2013, 14h44

^^

Citation 1 :

Russia Planning to Buy Aerial Drones in UAE

22:04 17/07/2013
MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian military is planning to purchase aerial drones in the United Arab Emirates, a defense industry source said Wednesday.

“We are talking about at least two United 40 Block 5 models developed by the company ADCOM Systems,” the source, who preferred to remain anonymous, told RIA Novosti.

United 40 is a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), designed to carry out near real-time combat assessment, special and reconnaissance operations and communications relays.

The vehicle can carry up to 10 air-to-ground missiles with a delivery range of 60 kilometers and fly for up to 120 hours, according to the developer.

The United 40 Block 5 model was unveiled at this year’s IDEX arms show in Abu Dhabi in February, and the vehicle was first tested in flight in March. Its estimated cost is $20-30 million.

The Russian military stressed a need for advanced reconnaissance systems in the wake of a brief military conflict with Georgia in August 2008, when the effectiveness of Russian military operations was severely hampered by a lack of reliable intelligence.

According to various estimates, the Russian military needs up to 100 UAVs and at least 10 guidance and control systems to ensure effective battlefield reconnaissance.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in June that aerial drones being developed in Russia for the military were inferior to similar foreign models.

Russia has reportedly signed two UAV contracts with Israel. Under the first contract, signed in April 2009, Israel delivered two Bird Eye 400 systems (worth $4 million), eight I View MK150 tactical UAVs ($37 million) and two Searcher Mk II multi-mission UAVs ($12 million).

The second contract was for the purchase of 36 UAVs, worth a total of $100 million, to be delivered in 2010. The shipment, however, has not been confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry.

ADCOM Systems, a group of firms headquartered in Abu Dhabi, specializes in manufacturing UAVs, aerial targets, air traffic control radar systems, and advanced communication systems.

RIA Novosti

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Mais ils ne l’auront pas. Comme ils n’ont pas eu le ‘IAI Heron’, ni aucun autre UAV (medium-altitude long-endurance) d’autres pays fabricants.

Citation 2 :

Russia 'to buy two UAE-made drones'

Awad Mustafa
Jul 19, 2013

DUBAI // Russia is planning to buy "at least two" of the first drones to be developed in the UAE.
The country's military intends to purchase aerial drones from Abu Dhabi company Adcom Systems, according to a Russian defence industry official who was quoted yesterday by the Russian state news agency, RIA Novosti.

"We are talking about at least two United 40 Block 5 models developed by the company Adcom Systems," the source told the agency.

The United Yabhon 40 is a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

It is designed to carry out near real-time combat assessments, special and reconnaissance operations, and communications relays.

According to Dr Ali Al Dhaheri, the chief designer of the drone and chairman of Adcom Systems, it can carry up to 10 air-to-ground missiles with a delivery range of 60 kilometres each, while flying for up to 120 hours.

He said yesterday that the Russian government had shown an interest in the drones.

"There is a lot of interest from the Russian authorities and we are conducting numerous demonstrations of the aircraft," he said.

"We will be presenting the aircraft and doing further demonstrations of it at the Moscow Air Show at the end of next month."

According to the Russian news agency, the country's military has a need for advanced reconnaissance systems following the brief military conflict with Georgia in August 2008, when the effectiveness of Russian military operations was severely hampered by a lack of reliable intelligence.

Various estimates indicate that Russia needs up to 100 UAVs and at least 10 guidance and control systems to ensure effective battlefield reconnaissance.

The Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said last month that aerial drones being developed in Russia were inferior to similar foreign models, the news agency reported.

Dr Al Dhaheri said the United Yabhon 40 was designed for strategic missions such as combat and battle damage assessment, intelligence preparation of a battlefield, special and reconnaissance operations, humanitarian aid, border surveillance and communications relay.

The planes can cruise at speeds of between 75kph and 220kph, fly to 7,010 metres and are powered by a 115-horsepower main engine and an 80hp electric engine.

Dr Al Dhaheri said that so far, Adcom had been approached by more than 10 countries who were interested in acquiring the UAE's latest military export.

"This plane is new but we have more than 10 countries from the northern hemisphere, east and west," he said.

"By the end of the year we expect to have two or three large contracts for the UAV.

"We will also be largely pushing into the South American market."

A drone will cost between US$20 million (Dh73.5m) and $30m.

Dr Al Dhaheri said in March that sales projections for the United Yabhon 40 were about $500m this year and about $41.5 billion in the next few years.

Over the past 24 years, Adcom has progressed from building missiles to developing strategic radars. The company now also creates advanced communications systems.

The National.ae

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**raselhamra** · 19 juillet 2013, 17h45

Les russes sont plus interessés par les équipement embarqués que par l'appareil lui-même.

L'appareil possède un radar et un système optoélectronique de surveillance. Ses quatre points de suspension situés sous les ailes arrières lui permette en outre d'accueillir des missiles téléguidés air-surface Yabhon-Namrod conçus par ADCOM.

**Adama** · 19 juillet 2013, 20h08

Bein non ! C’est bien pire.

Citation :

Russian Military Drones Inferior to Foreign Models - Minister

13:15 03/06/2013
MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti) – Unmanned air vehicles (UAV), ground-based robotic systems and unmanned submersibles which Russian industry is developing for the Defense Ministry, are inferior to foreign analogs, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday.

Military robotic systems are under development as part of the state weapons program for 2011-2020, Shoigu said at a ministry conference call on Monday.

But “by their performance characteristics, [robotic] systems created for the Defense Ministry’s needs are inferior to their foreign analogs,” he said.

“At the same time, domestically-made robotized systems are successfully used by our law-enforcement agencies,” he said.

Shoigu also criticized defense enterprises for frequent delays in carrying out their work, which in turn affects the quality of robotic systems.

“This is due to the technological backwardness of enterprises, weak organization of state contract fulfillment and a shortage of skilled personnel,” Shoigu said.

RIA Novosti

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La Russie post chute du mur de Berlin dans toute sa splendeur. ^^

Et avec Poutine et tous ses anciens collègues du KGB - FSB - aux manettes des vannes de la Russie (Au sens propre), cela ne risque pas de s’améliorer un jour.

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**absent** · 20 juillet 2013, 02h38

Adama a dit:

Bein non ! C’est bien pire.

Merci pour l'info, monsieur le défenseur des émirs du Golfe.

Zaâma les pays du golfe ont créé et maitrisent cette technologie !

**AARROU** · 20 juillet 2013, 04h08

La Russie post chute du mur de Berlin dans toute sa splendeur. ^^
Et avec Poutine et tous ses anciens collègues du KGB - FSB - aux manettes des vannes de la Russie (Au sens propre), cela ne risque pas de s’améliorer un jour.

L’Iran a présenté des images prouvant qu’elle avait réussi à accéder à certaines des données stockées dans le drone Sentinel RQ-170 américain capturé en Décembre 2011.

Le coupable c'est lui
The Avtobaza ELINT system is designed to detect airborne side-looking radars, air-toground fire-control radars and low-altitude flight control radars, as well as to provide intelligence data for the 1L125M APUR.

Les Russes eux sont deja au stade de :

MOSCOU, 25 avril - RIA Novosti

Le ministère russe de la Défense a récemment reçu un lot de complexes mobiles de guerre électronique Krassoukha-4, capables de brouiller les radars satellites espions, les radars terrestres et les systèmes aériens SDCA (système de détection et de commandement aéroporté), écrit le quotidien Izvestia du 25 avril 2013.

"Avant la fin de l'année, les brigades de guerre électronique recevront plusieurs Krassoukha, qui seront intégrés à des systèmes de brouillage globaux, plus complexes", a déclaré une source informée.

**Myst** · 20 juillet 2013, 04h21

La Russie post chute du mur de Berlin dans toute sa splendeur. ^^

Et avec Poutine et tous ses anciens collègues du KGB - FSB - aux manettes des vannes de la Russie (Au sens propre), cela ne risque pas de s’améliorer un jour.

Ow à ce point ? Tu veux dire que parce que les émirats auraient de meilleurs drones que les russes, ces derniers seraient militairement inférieurs ?

**Adama** · 20 juillet 2013, 07h52

Sidmark à 02h38 le 20/07/2013

Merci pour l'info, monsieur le défenseur des émirs du Golfe.

Zaâma les pays du golfe ont créé et maitrisent cette technologie !

^^

Totalement créé depuis l’origine même, non. Mais comme toute personne un tant soit peu sensée, ils n’ont jamais eu pour ambition de vouloir impérativement réinventer la roue.

Mais maitriser dorénavant à au moins 80 % tout le processus technologique, oui. Cela s’appelle la mondialisation maitrisée. Par prise de participation - ou de contrôle totale - sur des sociétés privés civiles ou/et des partenariats technologiques avec des sociétés militaires. Avec le bon rapport de force du donnant-donnant additionné d’un peu de finesse, on acquière bien des technologies qu’on ne possédait pas auparavant.

Retour sur les évènements.

United 40 UAV

Tout d’abord l’UAV ‘United 40’ équipé d’un unique moteur.

Citation 1 :

Adcom Unveils Innovative UAV at Dubai Air Show

Dubai Air Show
by David Donald

November 13, 2011, 10:58 AM

Arguably the most impressive new design on display at Dubai is Adcom Systems’ latest unmanned air vehicle, the United 40. Based in Abu Dhabi, the company has forged a reputation for taking innovative approaches to UAV and aerial target design, and the United 40 does not disappoint due to its tandem-wing layout and dramatic S-shaped fuselage.

The tandem-wing UAV concept that has resulted in the United 40 has been in research and development for about four years. In its formative years it was given development designations in the X range, but later became known as the Shaheen. It has recently received its new name to honor of the 40th anniversary of the creation of the United Arab Emirates.

Flight trials with scale models of tandem-wing designs began around two years ago, the models increasing in size and complexity. The final test vehicle was powered by two small tractor engines mounted on the rear wing, and had a span of six meters. Armed with results from these flight tests, Adcom has now built the full-scale aircraft, and it is intended to fly in the next few weeks.

A tandem wing was selected for a number of reasons. Most importantly it is very forgiving in terms of center-of-gravity limits, while it also reduces ground footprint. The incidence of the front wing can be altered to provide pitch control and trim. The wings themselves offer very high lift, resulting in an extraordinary glide ratio of 1:43. Span is 57 feet 6 inches and the lifting area of the wing is 262 sq ft.

Climb performance is expected to be excellent, based on data from the scale-model trials. Takeoff/landing speed could be as low as 33 mph, and the vehicle has an expected ceiling of more than 23,000 feet. Maximum takeoff weight is around 2,205 pounds, and up to 211 U.S. gallons of fuel can be carried giving a long endurance. Of that total 63.4 U.S. gallons is held in the wings. Payloads can be carried externally under the fuselage, in an internal bay, or in up to four under-wing pods.

Another unusual feature of the United 40 is its hybrid powerplant, which comprises a primary 120-hp Rotax 914UL engine driving a pusher propeller in the tail, augmented for takeoff and climbout by an 80-hp electric motor mounted further forward.

Yabhon-Namrod UAV Warhead

Displayed alongside the United 40 is a new weapon intended for use with the UAV. The Yabhon-Namrod has been designed by Adcom to be carried internally on an eight-round rotary launcher. It has a straight wing that swivels into position on launch, and a small jet engine that can power the weapon to around 620 mph over a range of around 37 miles.

Yabhon-Namrod weighs about 66 pounds. The warhead is based on that of a standard 100mm artillery round. A range of guidance methods could be employed, including infrared and laser, as well as GPS/inertial.

AINonline

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Dubai Air Show 2011

Power Hybrid:

- One engine: 115 hp

- Electric power: 80 hp

The Electric power (Power Hybrid) reduces fuel consumption. And therefore endurance fully loaded.

Note : Grâce à sa taille imposante - Grand espace disponible -, Il est muni d’une alimentation électrique hybride qui diminue nettement sa consommation en carburant et de fait augmente amplement son endurance (Une première dans le monde des UAV à ‘medium-altitude long-endurance’).

**Adama** · 20 juillet 2013, 07h56

Suite 1 :

United 40 - Block 5 UAV

Citation 2 :

United 40 goes twin

Published: 19 Feb 2013

One of the most impressive displays in the outside exhibition area is Adcom’s United 40 medium-altitude, longendurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicle, writes David Donald.

The design was first revealed in 2011 at the Dubai air show, its name reflecting the 40th anniversary of the United Arab Emirates that was celebrated that year.

Since that time, the design has evolved from the Block 1 configuration shown at Dubai to the Block 5 that is on display here.

Originally powered by a tail-mounted Rotax pusher engine, which was augmented for take-off/ climb by an internal electric motor, the design now features a pair of tractor engines under the forward wings, and has a taller fin. With a fuel tank capacity of 1,400 litres, the United 40 has a claimed endurance of more than 100 hours. Maximum payload is 1,050kg and ceiling is 8,000m.

Based in Abu Dhabi, Adcom (Stand CP-320) has forged a reputation for taking innovative approaches to UAV design, and the United 40 does not disappoint on account of its serpentine fuselage and tandem-wing layout.

The latter was adopted as it provides very forgiving centre-of-gravity limits, and it reduces ground footprint when compared with a more traditional wing configuration.

Adcom began flight tests with small-scale tandem-wing designs in 2009, with increasingly larger vehicles being flown. The United 40 has been flown in its Block 5 configuration.

United 40 can carry up to 10 powered precision bombs, with four carried externally on pylons under the rear wing, and six more on an internal launcher.

The weapons have a swivelling wing and a small jet engine.

Defense and Security Intelligence and Analysis: IHS Jane's

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United 40 UAV - Block 5 avec deux moteurs (IDEX UAE 2013)

Power Hybrid :

- 2 engines: 115 hp (230 hp)

- Electric power: > 100 hp...

The Electric power (Power Hybrid) reduces fuel consumption. And therefore endurance fully loaded.

**Adama** · 20 juillet 2013, 08h02

Suite 2 :

Le ‘Yabhon-Namrod precision missile’

United 40 UAV

Citation 3 :

Adcom Unveils Innovative UAV at Dubai Air Show

Dubai Air Show
by David Donald

November 13, 2011, 10:58 AM

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Yabhon-Namrod UAV Warhead

Displayed alongside the United 40 is a new weapon intended for use with the UAV. The Yabhon-Namrod has been designed by Adcom to be carried internally on an eight-round rotary launcher. It has a straight wing that swivels into position on launch, and a small jet engine that can power the weapon to around 620 mph over a range of around 37 miles.

Yabhon-Namrod weighs about 66 pounds. The warhead is based on that of a standard 100mm artillery round. A range of guidance methods could be employed, including infrared and laser, as well as GPS/inertial.

AINonline

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United 40 - Block 5 UAV

Citation 4 :

United 40 goes twin

Published: 19 Feb 2013

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United 40 can carry up to 10 powered precision bombs, with four carried externally on pylons under the rear wing, and six more on an internal launcher.

The weapons have a swivelling wing and a small jet engine.

Janes.com

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Note : ‘United 40 UAV - Block 5’ can carry up to ‘10 Yabhon-Namrod precision missile weighs about 66 pounds’, with four carried externally on pylons under the rear wing, and six more on an internal weapons bay.

Yabhon-Namrod precision missile has a straight wing that swivels into position on launch and a small jet engine that can power the weapon with a delivery range of 60 kilometres. It has a range of guidance including infrared and laser as well as GPS/inertial.

Soute d’armement supplémentaire (Internal weapons bay)

Le ‘Yabhon-Namrod’ pour ‘United 40 - Block 5 UAV’ est muni d’un mini turbofan de queue à carburant solide afin d’augmenter considérablement sa portée.

**Adama** · 20 juillet 2013, 08h06

Suite 3 :

Genèse de la société ADCOM Systems.

Citation 5 :

Defence industry in UAE on the march

30 May, 2010

Ali al Dhaheri could not have known he was trailblazing an indigenous defence industry for the UAE when he set up Adcom Systems in the late 1980s.

The company, now with a turnover in the hundreds of millions of dollars, produces advanced aeronautical products such as jet-powered, remote-controlled unmanned aircraft, called drones, used as targets by trainee air force personnel.

“Over time we … evolved from being hobbyists to professionals,” says Mr al Dhaheri. “We found that we had a mind to develop things by ourselves.”

Adcom has produced thousands of target drones for about 12 customer nations. It is also focusing on more advanced drones, called unmanned aerial vehicles, which includes a partnership with a Malaysian company, Composite Technology Research Malaysia.

As well as aircraft superstructure, Adcom produces sensitive navigational technology such as the drones flight control units – which take 500,000 positional readings per second – at its workshops in Musaffah, he says. The company plans to increase the size of the workshops by 4,600 square metres.

Adcom may have been one of the first but there are now a number of companies that have found ways to cater for the UAE’s huge defence requirements – it is the world’s fourth-largest arms importer – as well as other Gulf nations.

Among the original entrants into the UAE market were trading businesses such as International Golden Group (IGG) and Vallo, which represent and market foreign defence companies and their products, and companies such as Bin Jabr Group, which has assembled mini-submarines and armoured vehicles for the UAE military.

These companies were started by big personalities who were well connected with the military, says Riad Kahwaji, the chief executive of the Institute for Near East Military Analysis in Dubai. “They figured out an easier way to meet the exact needs of the military than western countries,” he says. “They knew the culture and interaction here.”

IGG has acted as a local agent for foreign defence companies such as Thales of France and General Dynamics of the US since 2002. When the company announced its partnership with South Africa’s Denel in 2006, it made a point of stating it had “demonstrated its ability to bring business to Denel” in the UAE, officials at the time said.

In February last year it signed a three-year, Dh67 million (US$ 18.2m) deal with the Abu Dhabi Government’s Critical National Infrastructure Authority to construct water security barrier systems produced by Wave Dispersion Technologies, based in the US.

Vallo, formerly Hydra Trading, also has partnerships with foreign companies to help them enter the Middle East marketplace. It represents the Czech vehicle maker Tatra and Russ Technology, which produces the BMP armoured personnel carrier, in the region. Vallo sees huge potential in selling Tatra’s military vehicles to the UAE and Saudi armed forces and plans to build a 40,000 sq metre assembly plant in Musaffah, says Mohammed Zahran, the manager for Vallo.

“I think Vallo is going to be the talk of the town, we have really grown so fast,” he says, adding it has beefed up its management team with eight retired officers from the UAE Armed Forces.

Bin Jabr Group began as an agent for companies such as Thales and Sagem supplying communications equipment to the military. In the late 1990s it began developing its own products, such as special forces submarines and armoured vehicles for the UAE, and also does brisk business manufacturing military uniforms for many of the UAE’s estimated 50,000 servicemen.

Its NIMR high-mobility tactical vehicles were custom-tailored for the desert environment, says Yousef al Sheybah, a retired UAE staff colonel and the general manager of marketing and development, defence and security at the Bin Jabr Group.

According to the Army Guide website, Bin Jabr Group signed a deal with the UAE to provide 500 of its NIMR vehicles in 2005 in a contract valued at $ 41m. The vehicles are manufactured in Jordan, while the gearbox and engines are purchased from other companies. There are plans to develop local manufacturing of the NIMR in Abu Dhabi.

Mr al Sheybah says the NIMR programme has huge export potential. The UAE forces are happy with the submersibles it manufactured at its facilities in Musaffah, he adds. “[The submarines] are very advanced for certain operations and depths – they can do depths of 50m.”

These original companies are now having to contend with a changing order, however, as Abu Dhabi master-plans a home-grown defence industry.

A new generation of defence-related companies are rising up that are well-funded, state-supported and tasked with helping the emirate to realise its 2030 plan by creating highly skilled jobs and a knowledge-based economy.

Tawazun, an Abu Dhabi Government-backed holding company, has created a gun manufacturer, Caracal, which has contracts in the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries. It is targeting an output of 40,000 handguns this year, officials have said. Another Tawazun company, Al Burkan, produces munitions, while its Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments is expected to introduce unmanned aerial, land and marine systems in the coming years.

In addition, state-supported maintenance companies have been established such as Al Taif Technical Services, a unit of Mubadala Development, a strategic investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi Government. Al Taif has a 20-year contract to service the army’s fleet of tanks and heavy utility lorries, worth more than Dh1 billion.

One of the largest recent entrants to the UAE defence market is Emirates Advanced Investments (EAI), which was established in 2006 and is jointly developing laser-guided rockets with one of the world’s largest defence companies, the US-based Raytheon.

The partnership is just one of several EAI has cultivated including those with the European company EADS for command and control systems, and Thales to provide in-service support for armed forces’ communications systems.

But new competition does not worry Mr al Sheybah, who says his company has gained enough experience to be competitive in cost and quality in everything it manufactures.

“We compete with companies that have been in the marketplace for years and are more experienced than Bin Jabr but we are at the same level of quality and are often cheaper,” he says.

All of the local defence companies can be sustainable as long as they continue to invest in new products, Mr Kahwaji says.

“If they invest well and smartly in research and development and continue to make tailor-made products and maintain close partnerships to the local militaries, they will be sure to get contracts.”

The National.ae

**Adama** · 20 juillet 2013, 08h11

Suite 4 :

Citation 6 :

UAE proudly displays its wares

Ayesha Al Khoori
Feb 19, 2013

ABU DHABI // UAE companies' growing confidence in their ability to produce world-leading defence technologies was evident at Idex yesterday.

Large amounts of locally designed or created products were on display to the thousands of delegates and visitors at the event.

Among them were defence technologies from Abu Dhabi-based Adcom Systems, whose general designer and chief executive was bullish in his praise of the company's drones.

"Our manufacturing industries are advanced - Israel and the United States are the only countries who can manufacture similar drones," Ali Al Dhaheri said. "Being able to create drones like them means we are also advanced in this field."

The drones' purpose is to aid in disasters, civil use, border control, traffic control and city control, he added.

"We are peaceful people but the drones can also be used in military services and war zones, hence the addition of the missiles.

"The aircraft is built to certified standards from the United States, so the quality, according to aviation, is very high and is used for long-term aircraft use."

In 24 years, Adcom has progressed from building missiles to developing strategic radars and it now creates unmanned aircrafts and advanced communication systems.

The main products the company has at Idex are unmanned drones that fly to high altitudes, can stay mobile for many hours and carry up to 10 missiles.

The largest drone is called "United 40" as it was created in the 40th year of the union of the UAE, Mr Al Dhaheri said. In the future, he is planning on designing and creating a bigger plane.

"It is a blessed name to a blessed aircraft. This drone can carry up to 10 missiles called "Namrood-1" and can fly 100 hours in the air," he said.

Three smaller drones at the exhibition were designed by Mr Al Dhaheri himself. "I am the general designer of the planes and the founder of the company. Since I have a background in science and technology and I have a passion for these aircraft, I developed my hobby into a profession," he said.

"Many other aircraft are found around the world but the United 40 is the new one and we have potential contracts with seven other countries, from the Gulf, as well as Europe," he said, adding that the company had a contract with the UAE Armed Forces.

Elsewhere at Idex, Abu Dhabi Ship Building was launching a new product. The company is a regional leader that builds and maintains naval and civil ships and was displaying the largest Abu Dhabi-built vessel at the naval and maritime security section of Idex, the 72-metre Baynunah-class corvette.

"This is a multipurpose ship and serves in the regional waters of the UAE," said Mohammed Al Ghas, the company's director of services.

The shipwas design by a French company, a process that took two years. The first one to be fully ready is being showcased at Idex. Four more of the ships will be delivered within the next two years.

The company also makes civilian ships for the UAE coast guard, as well as selling them to other countries worldwide.

"We are the leading company in the UAE and the GCC which is able to build these ships, and we are definitely proud," Mr Al Ghas said.

"We are promoting an industry in our country and if we build the ships, we can maintain them. Also, in hardships, we wouldn't need other countries' help."

Many nationalities were involved in the building of the ships but most were Emirati, Mr Al Ghas said.

"Because of Emiratisation, Emirati managers and helping hands made this ship with high quality. We also have a new maintenance sector now where highly qualified Emiratis provide their services to the navy."

The National.ae

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Citation 7 :

Adcom Systems in bid to shoot down rivals

Ivan Gale
May 29, 2010

An Abu-Dhabi company based in Musaffah plans to take on the world's largest defence manufacturers with a high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of flying above commercial airliner traffic for several days at a time. Adcom Systems, which has been producing unmanned target-training drones since the 1990s, is preparing to unveil its latest design for a seven-tonne surveillance UAV at the next Idex defence exhibition in Abu Dhabi in February.

"It will be very sophisticated when it is introduced," said Ali al Dhaheri, the general designer and chief executive of Adcom. "We hope to be able to show it at Idex, and will begin [flight] testing after that." The aircraft could become commercially available as early as the end of next year and would be categorised as a high-altitude, long-endurance UAV, or HALE. Although a final name has not been designated, it is provisionally called "Smart Eye 2". The original Smart Eye is a smaller UAV that is expected to undergo flight tests this year.

Marko Lukovic, the principal aerospace and defence consultant for Frost and Sullivan, said the only HALE category aircraft currently in production was by the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk, a 10-tonne UAV that has been ordered by the US, Germany and NATO. It can fly for 36 hours at an altitude of 20,000 metres and a distance of more than 25,000km. It carries sophisticated surveillance equipment and sells for between US$30 million (Dh110.1m) and $50m each, with costs easily doubling when long-term support contracts are bundled in.

"These are fairly complex systems and due to the size and money involved, you can't afford to lose. It all has to really work well from the word go," Mr Lukovic said. Adcom is one of a number of local companies to cater for the UAE Armed Forces. It has also produced many different kinds of ammunition including 9mm and 50mm calibre bullets and found success with its Yabhon series of target drones in the early 2000s, which are used by military personnel to test the country's missile and fighter jet defence systems.

The target drones are fitted with jet engines and can fly at up to 900kph, are made of lightweight composite materials and cost up to €250,000 (Dh1.12m) each. They replicate incoming missiles and are shot down by fighters or defensive missiles such as the Patriot system. Adcom's move into UAVs will see it develop products for what is expected to become the fastest-growing segment of the defence industry this year, according to a forecast from the UK-based consultancy Frost and Sullivan.

Mr Lukovic said Adcom was a growing company with high ambitions. "They have been talking about their programmes for a couple of years now but there hasn't been much development," he said. "So I am really interested in seeing their UAV and think it would be an important breakthrough in the HALE market, especially if a Middle Eastern company produces it." He said such UAVs could be in high demand in the GCC for border surveillance, anti-piracy operations and could be integrated into Gulf states' armed forces. The planned size of the Smart Eye 2 reflected Adcom's ambitions, Mr al Dhaheri said. "We are recognised now and are a big developer but we want to become one of the biggest players in the world."

The National.ae

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United 40 - Block 5 UAV, vole test

Abu Dhabi,UAE
07-03-2013

Le seul élément n’ont encore maitrisé reste uniquement le moteur thermique procuré encore à l’étranger. Dans un avenir très proche, Il va être produit soit sous licence par ADCOM elle-même aux UAE. Soit en collaboration avec la Turquie qui développe un moteur entièrement indigène pour sa propre gamme de drone.

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**zek** · 21 juillet 2013, 01h01

Les Russes sont complétement largué niveaux technologique militaire, ils ont entre une et deux générations de retard par rapport aux pays Occidentaux et , cela s'explique à l'effondrement de l'union soviétique où tous les projets militaires ont été abandonnés et aucun investissement n'a été fait pendant une vingtaine d'année.

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La Russie compte acheter des drones aux Emirats

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