United Arab Emirates (UAE)

By Ben Goldstein
Alongside its financial results for the 2024 fourth quarter (Q4), Archer shared new details around its “Launch Edition” initiative.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The aircraft is to arrive ahead of Joby’s plans to start carrying its first passengers in late 2025 or early 2026 in Dubai.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
The United Arab Emirates’ principal defense company is eyeing partnerships to realize its engine and space ambitions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
MBDA is pushing to complete development of a new diamond-shaped loitering munition in the next 18 months to two years to meet burgeoning demand.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
Edge Group’s new FADA space unit is on the cusp of picking partners for its plans to deploy an SAR and Earth-imaging satellite capability, the company says.
Satellites

By Ben Goldstein
The certification allows Archer to train and qualify pilots at its new academy.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
Airbus is in discussions with companies in the United Arab Emirates over a workshare on the A400M to secure its first Middle East order for the airlifter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Both Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation are racing to launch air taxi service in the United Arab Emirates.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
The UAE is looking to advance its space ambitions through a joint venture between the country’s Space42 and Edge Group’s new space unit, FADA.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The Gulf state, home to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, aims to define aerial corridors and regulations within the next 20 months.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne, Craig Caffrey
Even if the Middle East is no longer the only game in town for defense exports, it still has ample appetite for advanced equipment, from drones to transports.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
France’s Dassault Aviation has rolled out the first Rafale combat aircraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), two years before deliveries get underway.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
With fighter recapitalization decisions made, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and others turn their attention to helicopter capacity.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Keith Mwanalushi
Maintenance providers in the country are hoping to boost local talent through new training schemes.
Workforce & Training

By Ben Goldstein
Dubbed the Dubai International Vertiport (DVX), the facility is to be the first of a planned network of four vertiports that Skyports will build and operate.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Turkish drone-maker Baykar has acquired Italy’s beleaguered Piaggio Aerospace, just over six years after the latter entered extraordinary administration.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The new company, Pulse, will be headquartered in Abu Dhabi.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By David Casey
Air Arabia is adding Sochi to its growing Russian network as UAE-Russia seat capacity hits record levels.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Joby and Jetex have formed a strategic partnership to integrate Joby’s S4 electric air taxis into Jetex facilities at major UAE airports.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Multiple private and public entities across the region have aligned behind the drive to be a leader in advanced air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Lee Ann Shay
The region’s business aviation market is growing in fleet, infrastructure, technology and flight hours.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The facility is to be the first vertiport in the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) company’s air taxi network in Dubai.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Edge’s EPI engineering company has been contracted to manufacture and assemble the Cargo Compartment Removable Fuel Tanks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Reaction Engines, the UK-U.S.-based pioneer of hypersonic propulsion and thermal management systems, has been forced into closure.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
The agreement was announced Sept. 24 at the Burjeel Institute for Global Health in New York.
Commercial Space