UMEX 2022: The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday that it intends to acquire a dozen advanced Chinese trainers, signaling a major strategic shift in a longstanding policy of acquiring only Western military […]
RIAD KAHWAJI UMEX 2022: Despite the United Arab Emirates withdrawing its letter of acceptance on a US weapons package that included 18 MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicles, General Atomics remains hopeful that a deal can still happen. […]
RIAD KAHWAJI UMEX 2022: Insitu is engaged in discussions with a number of Arab Gulf nations with eyes on joint research and development projects, including proposals to build building on the capabilities of some of […]
RIAD KAHWAJI As Houthi rebels step up their long-range assault on both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the latter is quietly progressing on its own ballistic missile program, according to analysts. The Saudi program, which […]
RIAD KAHWAJI The year 2022 was supposed to be the year the Kuwait Air Force took almost full delivery of two long-awaited platforms that would double its size and multiply its capabilities. However, delays caused […]
By VALERIE INSINNA & RIAD KAHWAJI WASHINGTON and DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has put a halt to a $23.3 billion deal with the US for F-35 stealth fighters, MQ-9 Reaper drones and a package of weapons, with a […]
RIAD KAHWAJI Transitioning from machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and basic light rocket launchers to drones, guided munition and ballistic missiles, armed groups branded as terrorist by the United States and other countries have become […]
RIAD KAHWAJI After an unprecedented spending spree that is set to increase its number of warplanes by 900 percent, the Qatari government finds itself wrestling with a logistics problem: how the small oil-rich nation of 550,000 people […]
RIAD KAHWAJI Ravaged by 110 percent inflation, the Lebanese military has run out of money to feed its troops and troops salaries have plunged in value to the point where they are no longer enough […]
RIAD KAHWAJI Egypt’s geo-strategic location and status as largest Arab power makes it a vital partner to the U.S. military, even with Egyptian diversification policy that includes acquiring Russian jets. Despite occasional political frictions, military […]
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