Made in KSA

[The SC]

karem-25

 

[AmirPatriot]

karem-25

Thats a light water reactor in Argentina. How is it "Made in KSA"?

 

[Khafee]

Thats a light water reactor in Argentina. How is it "Made in KSA"?

You are right. Maybe "assembled in"

 

[The SC]

Thats a light water reactor in Argentina. How is it "Made in KSA"?

A deal was signed for the transfer of technology, this is the leading small nuclear reactor (25Me) for sea water desalination..Argentina is building one site as a prototype and it will be done in KSA too, but in numbers, just like the AN-132..

 

[c-dome1]

in the end you will have defence industry like israel

 

[الأعرابي]

I am envious of KSA. 200 million Pakistanis work and export for 8 years is equal to the money that KSA makes from oil exports with the effort it takes to make a good cup of tea.

That's something. They call that luck !

Umad?

 

[The SC]

Saudi Arabia
Alsalam builds F-15 parts
22 July 2013

In a major breakthrough, the Riyadh-based Alsalam Aircraft Company has made the first spare parts for the F-15 jet fighters, the company announced here Sunday.
“This is the first time an aviation project of this scale has been established in the Kingdom and we anticipate this will set the stage for additional assembly and manufacturing work that continues to provide high technology jobs for Saudi nationals,” Mohammed N. Fallatah, Alsalam’s president and CEO, said.
Alsalam company has entered a new phase in the company’s 25-year history with their first manufactured component loaded onto Boeing’s F-15 strike fighter.
On July 1 , Alsalam provided the easier explanation of what is to be supplied to be integrated on the RSAF’s F-15S. The delivery marks a milestone for the contract awarded by Boeing in June 2012 for Alsalam to assemble the new wings and forward fuselage sections for the conversion of the F-15S to the F-15SA configuration.
“Over the past 12 months, Alsalam has been undergoing intensive preparations for the loading of the first component piece into the assembly tooling,” Fallatah said. “This marks the transition from conventional maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) activity on commercial and military airplanes to a position of creating added value with the assembly of large aircraft components.”
Immediately after signing the F-15SA wing and forward fuselage contract last year the company moved into action assigning a leadership team and developing the project plan that included extensive training.
The training has been intensive both out of country and at the Alsalam facility where new classrooms were built to validate the skills in preparation for the assembly work. With the loading of the first assembly fixture this week, the company begins the process of validating the skills and training during First Article Qualification (FAQ). The FAQ is a rigorous process to ensure the subsequent shipsets of wings and forward fuselages are all built to the detailed specifications and all the components are assembled correctly.
“This was part of the vision for Alsalam when the company was established 25 years ago and, as the company is able to demonstrate world-class performance we will be able to add more high-value work content to our portfolio of capabilities,” Fallatah added.
Alsalam has achieved a Saudization rate of 56 percent and seeks to increase this rate as new contracts are awarded. The target for new programs is set at no less than 60 percent Saudis.
When it comes to aircraft maintenance, modification and technical support in the Middle East, Alsalam Aircraft Company is the pioneer in the industry.
It offers comprehensive services for commercial, corporate, VIP, and military customers worldwide. Its expertise covers civil aircraft maintenance, military aircraft maintenance, programmed depot maintenance (PDM), technical support programs (TSP), manufacturing and assembly, and VIP interior completions in addition to specialized aviation training.
Alsalam is a certified and approved repair station by major aviation authorities locally and internationally as a Part 145 Organization. It is also the only designated warranty center for Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) in the Middle East and North Africa region.

http://www.arabnews.com/news/458786

 

[The SC]

Al Salam’s F-15SR program

F-15 SA Front fuselage

F-15 SA wings

 

[The SC]

Turkish Aselsan Partners with Saudi Enterprise

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish military electronics specialist Aselsan, has signed a partnership agreement with a Saudi enterprise to cooperate on a joint venture.

State-controlled Aselsan, the country's biggest defense firm, signed the deal with TAQNIA Defense and Security Technologies of Saudi Arabia (DST) with the aim of founding a joint venture company that would work in military electronics.

Aselsan officials said the new venture will build a factory in Saudi Arabia on the idea to create “a most advanced technological base.”

Officials said that the main areas of technological cooperation will focus on radars, electronic warfare suites and electro-optical technology.

“The joint venture will design, develop and manufacture hardware and software with a view to selling them to the Saudi and Gulf markets,” one Aselsan official said.

Aselsan and DST each will hold a 50 percent stake in the joint venture.

Turkey’s chief procurement official, Ismail Demir, said: “This agreement will significantly contribute to the two countries’ partnership in defense, economic cooperation and investment.”

In September 2013, Turkey and Saudi Arabia ratified a defense industry cooperation agreement.

The agreement aims to increase cooperation in the defense industry by improving the industry capabilities of both countries through more effective collaboration on the development, production and procurement of goods and services in the defense industry and the related technical and logistical support fields.

The agreement is for five years and can be extended automatically for successive one-year periods.

In 2012, the Turkish parliament also approved a deal with Saudi Arabia regarding cooperation in training military personnel.

Industry experts in Ankara said defense industry deals between Turkey and Saudi Arabia could facilitate Turkey’s future exports of naval vessels, assault boats, armored vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles to Saudi Arabia. The Arab kingdom also has shown an interest in the Altay, Turkey’s first indigenous new-generation battle tank now in the prototype production and testing stage.

http://www.defensenews.com/story/de...h-aselsan-partners-saudi-enterprise/80702680/

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S-70i Black Hawk

Sikorsky to explore helicopter production in Saudi Arabia
http://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-sikorsky-idUSL8N1622X7
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Tatra trucks

 

[Aramagedon]

The very vast majority of them are not made In/ by Saudi Arabia.

 

[The SC]

The very vast majority of them are not made In/ by Saudi Arabia.

Like which ones?
There is transfer of technology or reverse Engineering or both, so these products you see on this thread have been carefully chosen because of the transfer of technology, not licence production nor assembly.. and they are jut the tip of the iceberg..
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Saudi Arabia to launch a small satellite every two years

Prince Turki said KACST is scheduled to implement its satellite program starting from 2019 through 2020, in collaboration with a team composed of experts from NASA, the German Space Agency and Stanford University.
Following the first two launches, the university will enter into its long-term program of developing MDSS small satellite systems.

He briefed the audience on efforts exerted by the Kingdom in space research over the last 30 years.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/bus...aunch-a-small-satellite-every-two-years-.html

DigitalGlobe and Saudi government sign joint venture on satellite imaging constellation
February 22, 2016

DigitalGlobe Chief Executive Jeffrey R. Tarr and Abdullah Alosaimi, chief executive of Taqnia Space, sign joint venture agreement to launch a constellation of at least 6 small imaging satellites. Credit: DigitalGlobe
PARIS—Geospatial satellite imagery and services provider DigitalGlobe Inc. on Feb. 21 said it is forming a joint venture with the government of Saudi Arabia to build at least six small optical Earth observation satellites to complement DigitalGlobe’s current fleet of large, high-resolution spacecraft.

The satellites, capable of detecting objects of less than 1 meter in diameter, would be launched in 2018 and 2019 and designed for easy operation within DigitalGlobe’s existing ground infrastructure, the companies said.

The statement did not disclose the estimated cost of the constellation or detail the two parties’ financial commitment. DigitalGlobe’s partners in the venture are Taqnia Space, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund; and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), which is already a DigitalGlobe Direct Access Partner receiving imagery directly from DigitalGlobe satellites.

Westminster, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe operates a fleet of large high-resolution satellites whose imagery is sold worldwide. The company’s principal customer is the U.S. government, through a large contract renewal yearly, with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

DigitalGlobe officials have said they would be ordering replacements for their WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites in 2017-2018 but would spend far less on them than what the company paid for the predecessor spacecraft.

DigitalGlobe has not indicated whether the new-generation satellites would be smaller and operate with a constellation-type architecture, which would reduce the time between fly-overs of a given target area; or would retain the higher-resolution capability more associated with larger satellites.

The company’s current WorldView-3 and coming WorldView-4 satellites are capable of detecting objects as small as 30 centimeters in diameter. The latter satellite is scheduled for launch late this year.

The joint venture in Saudi Arabia will divide production, sales and marketing responsibility.

KACST will build, integrate and launch the satellites and will own 50 percent of their capacity over Saudi Arabia and “the surrounding region,” DigitalGlobe said, without being more specific.

DigitalGlobe will have sales responsibility for the remaining 50 percent inside the KACST region, and 100 percent of the rights to coverage of the rest of the world. The parties will share in the global revenue stream under terms that were not disclosed.

The partnership “offers DigitalGlobe customers a complementary source of data to address new use cases, while expanding the image catalog of DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform,” DigitalGlobe said, adding that the constellation would be “highly complementary to the next-generation satellite architecture” the company is now designing.

DigitalGlobe said its existing imagery-production capability would be used “to improve the native accuracy of the small-satellite imagery.” It was unclear whether the satellites’ “native” submetric resolution would be resampled by laying one image atop another to achieve a product with a higher-resolution appearance, or whether the company’s existing catalog of higher-resolution imagery would be used to the same end.

The announcement is the latest sign that despite the collapse in the price of the crude oil on which their economies are built, Middle Eastern nations are not scaling back their ambitions to become space-fairing nations in their own right.

Taqnia has signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Sunnyvale, California, to build a satellite assembly plant on Saudi soil, with the necessary technology transfer occurring in the context of a contract under which Lockheed is building two telecommunications satellites for Riyadh-based Arabsat, a major commercial satellite fleet operator.

The United Arab Emirates, in addition to being home to mobile satellite services provider Thuraya, is investing in the Virgin Galactic small-satellite launch vehicle and space tourism company. The UAE has ordered two high-resolution optical reconnaissance satellites from Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space of France. Morocco has made a similar order.

The UAE’s new space agency is also planning a Mars probe, to be launched in 2020, and has embarked on its own satellite Earth observation program in collaboration with Satrec Initiative of South Korea. The UAE-built KhalifaSat, with an imager capable of detecting options 70 centimeters in diameter, is scheduled for launch in 2017.

The Egyptian government has said it plans to order a civil/military telecommunications satellite in the coming weeks from French contractors and has expressed an interest in a high-resolution optical satellite reconnaissance capability as well.

“Partnering with the premier commercial satellite imaging firm will help to propel the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to become a leader in remote sensing and satellite technology,” Taqnia Chairman and KACST President H.H. Dr. Turki Bin Saud said in a statement.

http://spacenews.com/digitalglobe-a...t-venture-on-satellite-imaging-constellation/



Saudi Arabia to launch Satellite from China

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) is working to complete preparation of the components of the Saudi satellite (Saudi SAT 5B) which is locally made, in preparation for its launch, via the Chinese space rocket (Long March 2D) to support remote sensing services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
This came in the framework of the cooperation between the Kingdom and the Republic of the People's Republic of China in various fields, including scientific field, which also includes the establishment of a project on genetics studies.

This cooperation enhances common desire between the leaderships of the two friendly countries to push forward the bilateral relations to broad levels and turn them into a strategic partnership with wide dimensions which expressed by mutual visits over the years, including the visit of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to China in 2014 when he was the Kingdom's Crown Prince, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, where it contributed to the advancement of the level of partnership between the two countries in various fields, while President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China is working at the same goal during his current visit to the Kingdom.

http://alekhbariya.net/en/node/3830

 

[Super Falcon]

Good finally KSA going to self reliance

 

[c-dome1]

developed buy ksa citizens
somthing?

 

[The SC]

Saudi Arabia will build world’s largest oil tanker fleet

July 22, 2016

Saudi companies Apicorp and National Shipping and are going to build the world’s largest fleet of oil tankers to support the kingdom’s plan to increase crude oil exports.

According to Bloomberg, the Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia Khalid al-Falih said that Saudi companies Arab Petroleum Investment Corp. (Apicorp) and National Shipping Co., known as Bahri, plan to create the world’s largest fleet of oil tankers.

According to al-Falih, Apicorp and Bahri formed a $1.5 billion investment fund in order to increase the fleet of oil tankers by 15 large tankers of the 3rd class (Very Large Crude Carrier, VLCC).

“The extra 15 large tankers will make Bahri, which owns more than 45 vessels, the world’s largest oil shipping company,” said the Saudi minister.

Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s largest oil exporters, and according to a report published by OPEC on July 12, the current rate of oil production is close to the all-time record.

State oil company Saudi Aramco, which transports about 20% of all oil cargo in the world, needs additional tankers to meet the growing demand for Saudi oil, al-Falih said.

According to Clarkson Research Services, currently, the largest owner of large tankers and supertankers is China Merchants Group, which owns 53 such vessels.

As Bloomberg reported earlier, by the results of 2015, Saudi Arabia has increased its oil exports by 4%: it exported 7.39 million barrels per day on average.

https://realrussiatoday.com/2016/07/22/saudi-arabia-will-build-worlds-largest-oil-tanker-fleet/

 

[Khafee]

Saudi Arabia will build world’s largest oil tanker fleet

July 22, 2016

Saudi companies Apicorp and National Shipping and are going to build the world’s largest fleet of oil tankers to support the kingdom’s plan to increase crude oil exports.

According to Bloomberg, the Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia Khalid al-Falih said that Saudi companies Arab Petroleum Investment Corp. (Apicorp) and National Shipping Co., known as Bahri, plan to create the world’s largest fleet of oil tankers.

According to al-Falih, Apicorp and Bahri formed a $1.5 billion investment fund in order to increase the fleet of oil tankers by 15 large tankers of the 3rd class (Very Large Crude Carrier, VLCC).

“The extra 15 large tankers will make Bahri, which owns more than 45 vessels, the world’s largest oil shipping company,” said the Saudi minister.

Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s largest oil exporters, and according to a report published by OPEC on July 12, the current rate of oil production is close to the all-time record.

State oil company Saudi Aramco, which transports about 20% of all oil cargo in the world, needs additional tankers to meet the growing demand for Saudi oil, al-Falih said.

According to Clarkson Research Services, currently, the largest owner of large tankers and supertankers is China Merchants Group, which owns 53 such vessels.

As Bloomberg reported earlier, by the results of 2015, Saudi Arabia has increased its oil exports by 4%: it exported 7.39 million barrels per day on average.

https://realrussiatoday.com/2016/07/22/saudi-arabia-will-build-worlds-largest-oil-tanker-fleet/

With all due respect, KSA does not have the capability to build VLCC's. These most probably will be built in S.Korea like before.