UAE developing air to air missiles

[Philip the Arab]

I am starting this thread and am going to be compiling information about the air to air missile(s) under development here.

I found this exercpt from the article below

Staying on target

HALCON, an end-to-end manufacturer of precision-guided munitions, aims to offer a full complement of guided weapons, by focusing on key international partnerships and nurturing home-grown IP

www.flightglobal.com

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So far, HALCON’s products are unpropelled and gravity-launched, albeit with sophisticated guidance technology, but Al Mansoori suggests that innovations are afoot that will take HALCON into entirely new segments of the aerial munitions market. “Next year, we are looking into propelled air-to-ground weapons,” he says. “By 2024 we hope to demonstrate a ground-to-air capability and by 2025 air-to-air. We are putting into place building blocks that will take us there"

In my opinion is a strong possiblity that the missile is based off the Marlin 100km range BVR missile or the A-Darter WVR missile but it is progress nonetheless. I think they mean demonstrate by actually testing the missile by 2025 which is good news if true.


@Bilal Khan (Quwa)
Did you see this coming? It will put them into a list of few countries that can develop air to air missiles even if they rely on imported subsystems. The Chinese used Russian seekers in their earlier BVR missiles.

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

I am starting this thread and am going to be compiling information about the air to air missile(s) under development here.

I found this exercpt from the article below

Staying on target

HALCON, an end-to-end manufacturer of precision-guided munitions, aims to offer a full complement of guided weapons, by focusing on key international partnerships and nurturing home-grown IP

www.flightglobal.com

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So far, HALCON’s products are unpropelled and gravity-launched, albeit with sophisticated guidance technology, but Al Mansoori suggests that innovations are afoot that will take HALCON into entirely new segments of the aerial munitions market. “Next year, we are looking into propelled air-to-ground weapons,” he says. “By 2024 we hope to demonstrate a ground-to-air capability and by 2025 air-to-air. We are putting into place building blocks that will take us there"

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In my opinion is a strong possiblity that the missile is based off the Marlin 100km range BVR missile or the A-Darter WVR missile but it is progress nonetheless. I think they mean demonstrate by actually testing the missile by 2025 which is good news if true.


@Bilal Khan (Quwa)
Did you see this coming? It will put them into a list of few countries that can develop air to air missiles even if they rely on imported subsystems. The Chinese used Russian seekers in their earlier BVR missiles.

Hey man, I said Pakistan should do it, and it turns out, ultimately, the UAE did it. So, the results are there for everyone to see.

Doers vs. Watchers.

 

[imadul]

Hey man, I said Pakistan should do it, and it turns out, ultimately, the UAE did it. So, the results are there for everyone to see.

Doers vs. Watchers.

Pakistanis said why spend time in developing when you can buy cheap.
What they disregard, by doing so one looses many other direct and indirect technological gains and innovations.

 

[Philip the Arab]

I wonder if the missile could also be converted to a MRSAM with a booster like the Sky Dragon 50.

Came across this excerpt for those who say UAE will forever rely on foreign engineers. They already have a lot of Emirati engineers in the 100-200 range.


Another priority for Al Mansoori is local recruitment. While the company has drawn on overseas talent from Brazil, South Africa and elsewhere, it has a scheme – Project 400 – to recruit and train 400 Emiratis as missile specialists. “Over the next 15 to 20 years, maybe as few as 10, we will be in a position where we can rely on UAE engineers in most areas of guided weapons,” he says.

 

[Skywalker]

Pakistanis said why spend time in developing when you can buy cheap.
What they disregard, by doing so one looses many other direct and indirect technological gains and innovations.

you are pretending that we have money in abundance and buy stuff off the shelve all the time. Thanks to Almight the think tank dont take adises from the key board warriors like you.

 

[Philip the Arab]

you are pretending that we have money in abundance and buy stuff off the shelve all the time. Thanks to Almight the think tank dont take adises from the key board warriors like you.

Investing in local R&D and production would in the long run pay off even if more expensive and difficult.

 

[Battlion25]

Hey man, I said Pakistan should do it, and it turns out, ultimately, the UAE did it. So, the results are there for everyone to see.

A collab could be on the cards or joint venture

 

[Philip the Arab]

A collab could be on the cards or joint venture

Turkey is more attractive to Pakistan in my opinion.

 

[Battlion25]

Turkey is more attractive to Pakistan in my opinion.

I agree with you. We are more closer to Turkey in defense collabs and would prefer tham over UAE but I was thinking it wouldn't hurt making collab across the board but I also guess UAE would rather prefer to do collabs with Egypt, KSA, Ukraine, Russia, Morocco, Greece etc etc rather than Pakistan or Turkey but doing across the board won't harm anyone really