IRAN will display its most advanced drone later this week

[-SINAN-]

Of course it has been designed by foreigners.

Sorry Surenas, but this is the lamest excuse i have ever heard. What's wrong with making foreigners work for your country. I wish we could do the same.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

You Arabs are not even capable of designing a bicycle. There is nothing wrong with manufacturing jokes. At least we provide some entertainment.

 

[mehmeTcc]

Sorry Surenas, but this is the lamest excuse i have ever heard. What's wrong with making foreigners work for your country. I wish we could do the same.

No, actually. ADCOM's UAVs are designed by a group of Australians. Its owner looks ADCOM as a hobby, if he changes his mind, like if he starts to think sport cars are cool, he would try the sport cars sector aswell.

From what I've heard, the owner of the company is a brilliant man. And a famous Turcophobe. Some of the sector guys told me that he always says we goddamn Turks buy our techology from Israel. (Heck, some of his subsystems are coming from Israel)

 

[SOHEIL]

@ALPfollowerOF373 ... Manta ray

 

[mohsen]

From the company website:

The main offices of ADCOM SYSTEMS are located in Industrial
city of Abu Dhabi (ICAD), Mussafah Area of Abu Dhabi. The
group is managed by an experienced multi-national team of
professionals administering over 600 employees.

I found the source of their claims about 60km missiles, the Brazilian FOG-MPM

manufactured by Avibrás: weight=33 kg ,length=1.50 , range=10km(20km?),
and that 60km thing has been only a halted project, in fact even that 10km version hasn't proved it's efficiency and didn't reach the production line. the company doesn't even mention about this project anymore, but apparently it can help...

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

No, actually. ADCOM's UAVs are designed by a group of Australians. Its owner looks ADCOM as a hobby, if he changes his mind, like if he starts to think sport cars are cool, he would try the sport cars sector aswell.

...

No! It’s true. Like this…

...

From what I've heard, the owner of the company is a brilliant man. And a famous Turcophobe. Some of the sector guys told me that he always says we goddamn Turks buy our techology from Israel. (Heck, some of his subsystems are coming from Israel)

^^

Seriously…

Defence industry in UAE on the march

30 May, 2010

Ali al Dhaheri could not have known he was trailblazing an indigenous defence industry for the UAE when he set up Adcom Systems in the late 1980s.

The company, now with a turnover in the hundreds of millions of dollars, produces advanced aeronautical products such as jet-powered, remote-controlled unmanned aircraft, called drones, used as targets by trainee air force personnel.

“Over time we … evolved from being hobbyists to professionals,” says Mr al Dhaheri. “We found that we had a mind to develop things by ourselves.”

Adcom has produced thousands of target drones for about 12 customer nations. It is also focusing on more advanced drones, called unmanned aerial vehicles, which includes a partnership with a Malaysian company, Composite Technology Research Malaysia.

As well as aircraft superstructure, Adcom produces sensitive navigational technology such as the drones flight control units – which take 500,000 positional readings per second – at its workshops in Musaffah, he says. The company plans to increase the size of the workshops by 4,600 square metres.

Adcom may have been one of the first but there are now a number of companies that have found ways to cater for the UAE’s huge defence requirements – it is the world’s fourth-largest arms importer – as well as other Gulf nations.

Among the original entrants into the UAE market were trading businesses such as International Golden Group (IGG) and Vallo, which represent and market foreign defence companies and their products, and companies such as Bin Jabr Group, which has assembled mini-submarines and armoured vehicles for the UAE military.

These companies were started by big personalities who were well connected with the military, says Riad Kahwaji, the chief executive of the Institute for Near East Military Analysis in Dubai. “They figured out an easier way to meet the exact needs of the military than western countries,” he says. “They knew the culture and interaction here.”

IGG has acted as a local agent for foreign defence companies such as Thales of France and General Dynamics of the US since 2002. When the company announced its partnership with South Africa’s Denel in 2006, it made a point of stating it had “demonstrated its ability to bring business to Denel” in the UAE, officials at the time said.

In February last year it signed a three-year, Dh67 million (US$ 18.2m) deal with the Abu Dhabi Government’s Critical National Infrastructure Authority to construct water security barrier systems produced by Wave Dispersion Technologies, based in the US.

Vallo, formerly Hydra Trading, also has partnerships with foreign companies to help them enter the Middle East marketplace. It represents the Czech vehicle maker Tatra and Russ Technology, which produces the BMP armoured personnel carrier, in the region. Vallo sees huge potential in selling Tatra’s military vehicles to the UAE and Saudi armed forces and plans to build a 40,000 sq metre assembly plant in Musaffah, says Mohammed Zahran, the manager for Vallo.

“I think Vallo is going to be the talk of the town, we have really grown so fast,” he says, adding it has beefed up its management team with eight retired officers from the UAE Armed Forces.

Bin Jabr Group began as an agent for companies such as Thales and Sagem supplying communications equipment to the military. In the late 1990s it began developing its own products, such as special forces submarines and armoured vehicles for the UAE, and also does brisk business manufacturing military uniforms for many of the UAE’s estimated 50,000 servicemen.

Its NIMR high-mobility tactical vehicles were custom-tailored for the desert environment, says Yousef al Sheybah, a retired UAE staff colonel and the general manager of marketing and development, defence and security at the Bin Jabr Group.

According to the Army Guide website, Bin Jabr Group signed a deal with the UAE to provide 500 of its NIMR vehicles in 2005 in a contract valued at $ 41m. The vehicles are manufactured in Jordan, while the gearbox and engines are purchased from other companies. There are plans to develop local manufacturing of the NIMR in Abu Dhabi.

Mr al Sheybah says the NIMR programme has huge export potential. The UAE forces are happy with the submersibles it manufactured at its facilities in Musaffah, he adds. “[The submarines] are very advanced for certain operations and depths – they can do depths of 50m.”

These original companies are now having to contend with a changing order, however, as Abu Dhabi master-plans a home-grown defence industry.

A new generation of defence-related companies are rising up that are well-funded, state-supported and tasked with helping the emirate to realise its 2030 plan by creating highly skilled jobs and a knowledge-based economy.

Tawazun, an Abu Dhabi Government-backed holding company, has created a gun manufacturer, Caracal, which has contracts in the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries. It is targeting an output of 40,000 handguns this year, officials have said. Another Tawazun company, Al Burkan, produces munitions, while its Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments is expected to introduce unmanned aerial, land and marine systems in the coming years.

In addition, state-supported maintenance companies have been established such as Al Taif Technical Services, a unit of Mubadala Development, a strategic investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi Government. Al Taif has a 20-year contract to service the army’s fleet of tanks and heavy utility lorries, worth more than Dh1 billion.

One of the largest recent entrants to the UAE defence market is Emirates Advanced Investments (EAI), which was established in 2006 and is jointly developing laser-guided rockets with one of the world’s largest defence companies, the US-based Raytheon.

The partnership is just one of several EAI has cultivated including those with the European company EADS for command and control systems, and Thales to provide in-service support for armed forces’ communications systems.

But new competition does not worry Mr al Sheybah, who says his company has gained enough experience to be competitive in cost and quality in everything it manufactures.

“We compete with companies that have been in the marketplace for years and are more experienced than Bin Jabr but we are at the same level of quality and are often cheaper,” he says.

All of the local defence companies can be sustainable as long as they continue to invest in new products, Mr Kahwaji says.

“If they invest well and smartly in research and development and continue to make tailor-made products and maintain close partnerships to the local militaries, they will be sure to get contracts.”


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UAE proudly displays its wares

Ayesha Al Khoori
Feb 19, 2013

ABU DHABI // UAE companies' growing confidence in their ability to produce world-leading defence technologies was evident at Idex yesterday.

Large amounts of locally designed or created products were on display to the thousands of delegates and visitors at the event.

Among them were defence technologies from Abu Dhabi-based Adcom Systems, whose general designer and chief executive was bullish in his praise of the company's drones.

"Our manufacturing industries are advanced - Israel and the United States are the only countries who can manufacture similar drones," Ali Al Dhaheri said. "Being able to create drones like them means we are also advanced in this field."

The drones' purpose is to aid in disasters, civil use, border control, traffic control and city control, he added.

"We are peaceful people but the drones can also be used in military services and war zones, hence the addition of the missiles.

"The aircraft is built to certified standards from the United States, so the quality, according to aviation, is very high and is used for long-term aircraft use."

In 24 years, Adcom has progressed from building missiles to developing strategic radars and it now creates unmanned aircrafts and advanced communication systems.

The main products the company has at Idex are unmanned drones that fly to high altitudes, can stay mobile for many hours and carry up to 10 missiles.

The largest drone is called "United 40" as it was created in the 40th year of the union of the UAE, Mr Al Dhaheri said. In the future, he is planning on designing and creating a bigger plane.

"It is a blessed name to a blessed aircraft. This drone can carry up to 10 missiles called "Namrood-1" and can fly 100 hours in the air," he said.

Three smaller drones at the exhibition were designed by Mr Al Dhaheri himself. "I am the general designer of the planes and the founder of the company. Since I have a background in science and technology and I have a passion for these aircraft, I developed my hobby into a profession," he said.

"Many other aircraft are found around the world but the United 40 is the new one and we have potential contracts with seven other countries, from the Gulf, as well as Europe," he said, adding that the company had a contract with the UAE Armed Forces.

Elsewhere at Idex, Abu Dhabi Ship Building was launching a new product. The company is a regional leader that builds and maintains naval and civil ships and was displaying the largest Abu Dhabi-built vessel at the naval and maritime security section of Idex, the 72-metre Baynunah-class corvette.

"This is a multipurpose ship and serves in the regional waters of the UAE," said Mohammed Al Ghas, the company's director of services.

The shipwas design by a French company, a process that took two years. The first one to be fully ready is being showcased at Idex. Four more of the ships will be delivered within the next two years.

The company also makes civilian ships for the UAE coast guard, as well as selling them to other countries worldwide.

"We are the leading company in the UAE and the GCC which is able to build these ships, and we are definitely proud," Mr Al Ghas said.

"We are promoting an industry in our country and if we build the ships, we can maintain them. Also, in hardships, we wouldn't need other countries' help."

Many nationalities were involved in the building of the ships but most were Emirati, Mr Al Ghas said.

"Because of Emiratisation, Emirati managers and helping hands made this ship with high quality. We also have a new maintenance sector now where highly qualified Emiratis provide their services to the navy."


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Adcom Systems in bid to shoot down rivals

Ivan Gale
May 29, 2010

An Abu-Dhabi company based in Musaffah plans to take on the world's largest defence manufacturers with a high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of flying above commercial airliner traffic for several days at a time. Adcom Systems, which has been producing unmanned target-training drones since the 1990s, is preparing to unveil its latest design for a seven-tonne surveillance UAV at the next Idex defence exhibition in Abu Dhabi in February.

"It will be very sophisticated when it is introduced," said Ali al Dhaheri, the general designer and chief executive of Adcom. "We hope to be able to show it at Idex, and will begin [flight] testing after that." The aircraft could become commercially available as early as the end of next year and would be categorised as a high-altitude, long-endurance UAV, or HALE. Although a final name has not been designated, it is provisionally called "Smart Eye 2". The original Smart Eye is a smaller UAV that is expected to undergo flight tests this year.

Marko Lukovic, the principal aerospace and defence consultant for Frost and Sullivan, said the only HALE category aircraft currently in production was by the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk, a 10-tonne UAV that has been ordered by the US, Germany and NATO. It can fly for 36 hours at an altitude of 20,000 metres and a distance of more than 25,000km. It carries sophisticated surveillance equipment and sells for between US$30 million (Dh110.1m) and $50m each, with costs easily doubling when long-term support contracts are bundled in.

"These are fairly complex systems and due to the size and money involved, you can't afford to lose. It all has to really work well from the word go," Mr Lukovic said. Adcom is one of a number of local companies to cater for the UAE Armed Forces. It has also produced many different kinds of ammunition including 9mm and 50mm calibre bullets and found success with its Yabhon series of target drones in the early 2000s, which are used by military personnel to test the country's missile and fighter jet defence systems.

The target drones are fitted with jet engines and can fly at up to 900kph, are made of lightweight composite materials and cost up to €250,000 (Dh1.12m) each. They replicate incoming missiles and are shot down by fighters or defensive missiles such as the Patriot system. Adcom's move into UAVs will see it develop products for what is expected to become the fastest-growing segment of the defence industry this year, according to a forecast from the UK-based consultancy Frost and Sullivan.

Mr Lukovic said Adcom was a growing company with high ambitions. "They have been talking about their programmes for a couple of years now but there hasn't been much development," he said. "So I am really interested in seeing their UAV and think it would be an important breakthrough in the HALE market, especially if a Middle Eastern company produces it." He said such UAVs could be in high demand in the GCC for border surveillance, anti-piracy operations and could be integrated into Gulf states' armed forces. The planned size of the Smart Eye 2 reflected Adcom's ambitions, Mr al Dhaheri said. "We are recognised now and are a big developer but we want to become one of the biggest players in the world."


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[mehmeTcc]

No! It’s true. Like this…

^^

Seriously…

You really contributed a lot to that topic. You wouldn't mind if I ignore you would you?

 

[kollang]

Sorry Surenas, but this is the lamest excuse i have ever heard. What's wrong with making foreigners work for your country. I wish we could do the same.

bro,what happened today in Ankara?i hope you are OK anyway.

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

You really contributed a lot to that topic. You wouldn't mind if I ignore you would you?

Even when you tell lies.

 

[Surenas]

The problem with foreigners working in your country is the fact that their loyalty is in most cases dual.

 

[-SINAN-]

bro,what happened today in Ankara?i hope you are OK anyway.

???

Thank you for your consideration but nothing happened... What did you hear ?

 

[Bubblegum Crisis]

The problem with foreigners working in your country is the fact that their loyalty is in most cases dual.

There is our secret services for that (All GCC). ^^

And when enough of our brightest minds will have been trained - in 15 or 20 years -. We will not have finally need them.

 

[mehmeTcc]

I'm pretty damn sure that Bubble guy is using a Translator.

 

[SOHEIL]

You guys really think hamase is Irans most advanced drone !!!

Wait for a heart attack then ...

 

[twilight]

Soheil ... why you ran from militaryDOTir ... we have some good plan for you ...... میخ طویله ها رو خریدی !؟