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, who is under sanctions, visited IDEX on Monday, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Russia is one of 65 countries participating in the biennial arms fair in the UAE capital, which runs until the end of the week and is considered the region's largest. The oil-rich Gulf nation has also emerged as a top destination for rich Russian emigres fleeing the impact of Western sanctions. The UAE has maintained a neutral stance towards Russia's war in Ukraine, which is nearing its one-year anniversary.
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