The contract comes at a time when the military procurement of armored vehicles is increasing across the Middle East to address the growth in asymmetric warfare and insurgency across the globe.
The deal reinforces the company's commitment to developing a sustainable knowledge and innovation-based economy in line with the UAE's Vision 2030, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ship Building told Breaking Defense.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Gulf countries must build a centralized command center linked to sub-command centers spread across all countries and able to share and receive data in a synchronized real time way, says Mohamed Al-Kenany, military researcher and defense analyst at the Arab Forum for Policy Analysis in Cairo.
"What made Rheinmetall sign with us? This shows that we have the expertise, right infrastructure, test labs and development support to secure such big deals," Saeed Al Mansoori, CEO of Halkon tells Breaking Defense.