UAE Al-jaber and Turkish FNSS form an alliance.

[Mosamania]

Emairati Al-Jaber groups and Turkish FNSS have signed a partnership and manufacturing agreement to supply the UAE armed forces with its needs. And the first product of this alliance is for Al-Jaber group to manufacture an entire family of armored vehicles in the UAE. This contract was signed in the international defense exhibition IDEX 2011. And a range of VIPs were present in the signing of this contract. Obaid Khalifah Jaber Al-Murri CEO of Al-Jaber groups and Qadir Niel Cort CEO of FNSS have signed this alliance contract.

Mr.Al-Murri has shown his appreciation of the alliance siting "This partnership has a strategic value for Al-Jaber Groups and we are very happy with this partnership and further concretes its roles as the main supplier of UAE armed forces equipment, And we are very certain that FNSS partnership will lead to a big success for both of us in the future"

And Mr.Al-Murri further said: "This alliance enables us to manufacture the Most advanced Armored vehicles in the entire region"

Mr.Cort CEO of FNSS says: "This alliance is a very important milestone is the journey of FNSS the combined capabilities of both Al-Jaber and FNSS will lead to a more powerful industrial base for both of us which will enable us to supply the entire region with state of the art 8x8 armed vehicles."

The first fruit of this Alliance is the manufacturing of PARS 8x8 a very advanced APC with the ability to further modify and upgrade it to suit customers every need.

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Long live Turkish GCC partnership

 

[Zarvan]

I want to know about the development of UAE NAVY UAE was making some 7 small corvettes are the complete and if no than when they will be can some body guide I have tried to do lot of research but couldn't find much on the latest status of UAE Navy

 

[Mosamania]

Type: Corvette
Displacement: 915 tons[2]
Length: 71.3m
Beam: 11m
Draft: 2.8m
Propulsion: 4 x MTU 12V595 TE90 diesel engines
3 x Kamewa Waterjets models 112S11 and 125B11
Speed: 30+ knots
Range: 2,400nm at 15kt
Endurance: 14 days
Complement: 37 officers and crew
Sensors and
processing systems: Saab Microwave Systems Sea Giraffe AMB surveillance radar
Terma I-band navigation radar
Selex Orion RTN 25 Fire Control X-band radar
NDS 3070 Vanguard hull-mounted mine and obstacle avoidance sonar
Armament: 1 x OTO Melara 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
2 x Rheinmetall MLG 27 27 mm guns
8 x MBDA MM40 block 3 Exocet missiles
4 x Raytheon MK56 eight-cell vertical launchers for RIM-162 ESSM
1 x mk49 mod3 21-cell RAM launcher for RAM block 1A missile system
Aviation facilities: Aft helicopter deck and hangar
Notes: Cost, as of February 2009, is US$820 million for the entire 6 ship programme.[3]

1 has entered service with the UAE navy 2 are done and are under going testing and the last 3 or 4 are being built.

This is a UAE built Corvette.

 

[silko]

Jaber...

that's practically my name but i spell it different.