StandOff & PGM Weapons

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The MBDA competitor of these is being developed in the UAE under an offset program

18 per Rafale = flight of six Rafales can launch 108

As well as being developed for use in Euro 6th gen fighter IWB


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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.
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tyrin said:
The MBDA competitor of these is being developed in the UAE under an offset program

18 per Rafale = flight of six Rafales can launch 108

As well as being developed for use in Euro 6th gen fighter IWB


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MBDA reveals joint smart missile plan with UAE, 2030 production target - Breaking Defense

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.
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Some is actualy paying for it now
 
tyrin said:
Honestly I feel we’ll have to wait until Dubai airshow or IDEX to know if it was axed.

Advanced Concepts kinda just develops the product to TRL6+ and pushes it to other EDGE companies for production.

EDGE just established a composite propellant production facility in country which includes mixing and other processes

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I personally like their cruise missile family more especially because they produce the engines in house

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Check this out as well, which I found on LinkedIn

Might be the only engines under development in the Arab world

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These jet engines are all South African designed and developed - The UAE paid for their IP and they are now theirs, they hired some of the SA team who developed them, however the lead professor on the project returned to South Africa and is now busy with rocket engine studies and developments. (I have most of the engine development story in the Propulsion section under South African propulsion developments).

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/south-african-indigenous-propulsion-projects.39110/ - Posts #4, 5, 15 in the link hold particular relevance to these jet engines.

The same applies to their cruise missiles and quite possibly the the air launched guided rocket as well. The UAE hired huge swathes of South African engineers etc (especially from Denel Dynamics, who specialises in various missile/PGM/smart bomb developments), when Denel nearly shut down two or three years ago and didn't pay salaries for months on end. There has been a lot of grumbling about those engineers taking a lot of development IP with them to the UAE (unlawfully).
 
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Graugrun said:
These jet engines are all South African designed and developed - The UAE paid for their IP and they are now theirs, they hired some of the SA team who developed them, however the lead professor on the project returned to South Africa and is now busy with rocket engine studies and developments. (I have most of the engine development story in the Propulsion section under South African propulsion developments).

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/south-african-indigenous-propulsion-projects.39110/ - Posts #4, 5, 15 in the link hold particular relevance to these jet engines.

The same applies to their cruise missiles and quite possibly the the air launched guided rocket as well. The UAE hired huge swathes of South African engineers etc (especially from Denel Dynamics, who specialises in various missile/PGM/smart bomb developments), when Denel nearly shut down two or three years ago and didn't pay salaries for months on end. There has been a lot of grumbling about those engineers taking a lot of development IP with them to the UAE (unlawfully).
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Oh yeah, not to take credit from SA there are also Brazilians, and others involved including Brits at high levels as well.

SA engineers do much of the heavy work at the higher levels (principle and senior engineers) while junior engineers are Emirati, Indian, and other expats. They are doing a lot more than most think though and gaining more experience over the years.


South Africans helped set up composite propulsion production facilities because of engineers involved in South Africa’s space program motor production. As I was saying about other nationalities there are engineers from Korea who were involved in KSLV-2 are working at EDGE on liquid fuel programs.

Brits are the ones developing IMU production in country

Now, there are also some younger South African engineers but mostly it’s the ones with 20+ years of experience at EDGE.

Sorry for grammar typing this on my phone.

I mean think about it, why waste your knowledge making chump change when you can make 100k+ usd tax free. See your projects come to fruition actually instead of going into developmental hell.

This was all spurred on by the collapse of Denel, but there are also engineers from CSIR and other companies who’ve temporarily migrated.
 
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