![]() ![]() The UAE and Israel have steadily deepened their military partnership, including defence procurement, since they normalised relations in 2020 as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords. Oren Guter, a former navy captain who leads IAI's naval programme, said the joint project would counter "threats here in the area" but that the aim was also to deploy vessels abroad. The UAE and Israel revealed their first jointly created unmanned vessel off the coast of Abu Dhabi The craft, which has advanced sensors and imaging systems and can be used for surveillance, reconnaissance and detecting mines, was created by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Emirati defence consortium EDGE. The UAE and Israel revealed off the coast of Abu Dhabi their first jointly created unmanned vessel. ![]() "In addition to traditional Western suppliers, they now face highly competitive arms exporters like South Korea, Israel, and Turkey, all of which are already cooperating closely with the Emirati defence industry."īeyond Russia, Israel also made waves at the Naval Defence and Maritime Security Exhibition (NAVDEX) which opened alongside IDEX. "While Russian firms may be trying to take advantage of the UAE's search for a more diversified pool of suppliers, they will not have an easy time locking defence contracts with Abu Dhabi," he told AFP. Russia supplied twenty percent of the Middle East's arms imports between 2000-2019, but the Arab Gulf's arms market has been firmly dominated by American and European firms, said Albert Vidal, a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University. He told TASS at IDEX on Monday Rosoboronexport was preparing to offer reconnaissance and strike drones to foreign partners. that could be of immediate interest" to countries in the region. In a statement ahead of IDEX, Rosoboronexport head Alexander Mikheev called Middle Eastern states "important partners" and said his firm was "working out proposals. Russia is the second largest arms exporter in the world after the United States, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. "In 2022, trade between Russia and the UAE increased by 68 percent and reached $9 billion," he said. "The UAE has retained its first place among the countries of the Arab world in terms of trade with the Russian Federation," TASS quoted him as saying. Russian deputy premier Denis Manturov hailed an increase in bilateral trade with the UAE last year
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