The "objective" of the future company is to "really increase our presence in the Middle East," Patrice Hajjar, MBDA’s vice president for the Middle East, told reporters.
One such agreement, signed Wednesday between the Emirati Tawazun Council and French firm Thales, establishes a production facility for Ground Master series air surveillance radars in the UAE.
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The American company said gallium has "applications across many different sectors ... [for] the defense industry, the supply of gallium is critical as it is a key component of defense products including advanced radars."
The US Mission to the UAE said that the term sheet signing was an "exciting step" and that the coproduction "strengthens the security of our countries and enhances our economic cooperation."
"We see that there is a global need for this [radar]. The [need] for this kind of radars for the Coast Guard, and even more so now securing waterways will become more and more important," a company official told Breaking Defense.
Calidus occupies a large event space in an outdoor pavilion, where it's showing off several armored vehicles, one of which featured an "ALHEDA" mounted missile pod.
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An MBDA official here tells Breaking Defense how the company sees the missiles swarming into combat, and how MBDA is eyeing a new subsidiary in the UAE.