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SAMI L3Harris technologies



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MX-20 for high altitude

MX-RSTA for land systems

 

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There is also the Saudi INTRA Defense Technologies making the ARGOS II HD/HDT

 

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JV and Strategic Partnership between the Saudi Advanced Technologies Company (Wahaj) and ELSEL for ELSEL LIVET RCWS development..

ELSEL “LIVET” Remotely Controlled Dual Weapons System

The Light Vehicular Turret (LIVET) is designed and manufactured by ELSEL s.r.l., an Italian company with 30+ years of experience in the defense sector. LIVET is the only product of this type purposely designed to be very open to customization and upgrade, so it can easily accept any type of payload at customer choice (obviously within some weight and recoil limit). It is primarily designed for use on light wheeled or tracked combat vehicles, fast attack boats and other platforms requiring improved offensive capabilities. It can also be easily networked for use in centralized static installations, e.g. to protect sensitive sites or for border surveillance.

The fire control system allows engagement of targets by day and night; the electrical, fully digital servo systems and the primarily stabilized line of fire (2 axes), ensure a high accuracy of fire, also on the move, while keeping the gunner safe and secure within the vehicle.

Despite of its low weight (less than 160kg) and size, it’s able to mount two medium caliber weapons for maximum firepower (e.g. both a .50MG and a 40AGL), providing also light vehicles with the capability to effectively engage lightly armored targets.

The wide variety of installable weapons makes it a standard choice for a full range of vehicles/platforms with different mission profiles like surveillance, patrolling in urban environment, border security, counter-sniper and asymmetric missions. Typical combinations are:

• .50MG +40AGL to engage armoured vehicles
• .50MG + 7.62 to engage troops
• 2x.50MG for high fire volume (e.g. against low flying helicopters)
• 2x.50 MG with different ammo (e.g. Ball and AP)

Also rockets, missiles or other equipment’s can be installed for more specialized missions, always using the same base components to reduce maintenance, spare parts and logistics overhead.

Lightweight and simplicity allow its installation also on light tactical or utility vehicles;the installation takes less than one hour to a non-skilled engineer: only few screws, three electrical cables among the unit and a cable to the vehicle battery. No other interface with the vehicle is required.

Due to all these characteristics, LIVET represents the baseline for a common armament platform to be used with different weapons across a variety of vehicles, allowing the customer to reduce the total ownership cost.

This product has successfully passed both the qualification tests and the firing test andnow is going to be sampled to selected customers.

Finally, all the components are ITAR/EAR free so there are no special export restrictions.

https://www.armyrecognition.com/ita..._remotely_controlled_dual_weapons_system.html

 

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LIG Nex1 of SK and KSA

The relations between KSA and SK are deep and strong. It is great to have JVs in nuclear reactors' technology, then shipbuilding, and this giant company..

 

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A meeting with the governor of the General Authority for Military Industries GAMI in Saudi Arabia

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There are many developments in the Saudi military industry, the most important of which is the launch of supply chains for industries.

- Military industries are one of the most important elements of Vision 2030 in Saudi Arabia
- Creating military entities to localize and develop technology for strategic and security reasons, and to be an important economic tributary to Saudi Arabia.
- A major factor for technology transfer and technology localization
- The Crown Prince set a vision for localizing 50% of the weapons

We have developed 3 pillars to implement the military industrial vision:

1- Department of Military Purchases
2- Localizing the military industries
3- Transfer and localization of technologies and research

- The first pillar is to improve the mechanism and management of military procurement to benefit from the localization of industries through these contracts - to increase transparency - to benefit from the unification of the power of laws in the security sectors

- The second important pillar, we have identified 11 defense and security systems to be localized in the next decade (10 years) according to the needs and depending on the Kingdom’s defense policies, and will ensure the transfer and development of technologies in the Kingdom.

- The third pillar there is no industry without research and development that keeps pace with this industry.

The agency’s strategy has identified seven systems that need to be developed, branching out of which 21 technologies as research and development .

- Research and development will keep pace with the development of manufacturing and services transfer.

- We focused on building the Saudi human cadres in the military industry and creating distinctive jobs in the military industry.

- This will achieve strategic independence pillars in terms of equipment, defense, weapons and military readiness, and allow us to develop and transfer military industries and operate jointly between the parties.

- The requirement of the localization rate does not affect the industry, maintenance and sustainability in the Kingdom, but rather enhances the readiness in manufacturing and supply chains faster in the Kingdom in addition to maintenance and sustainability instead of importing from abroad.

- The Saudi military purchasing power, we take advantage of it to pressure companies to localize the military industries.

- The benefit was for foreign manufacturers, and now things must change, and the payment allowance will be partial payment and the rest is invested in the kingdom to settle the military industries.

- In the seventies, petrochemicals were non-existent in the kingdom, and now the kingdom is one of the best three or four countries in the world, producing, technologies and developing petrochemical industries until it has been competing with all countries in the world. And now our responsibility is to benefit from the expertise to build the military industry sector and to apply the experience in building a distinct military industries sector.

 

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Special statement from #Dmitry, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation:

Russia is ready to help Saudi Arabia establish facilities related to military production and transfer Russian military technologies to the Saudi side..

 

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KACST researchers are developing computational technology to accurately simulate the flight dynamics of micro air vehicles with broad scientific and engineering applications ..

Insect-sized, remote-controlled flying robots are the latest developments in the field of micro air vehicles (MAVs), popularly known as drones. Such small devices, however, face specific aerodynamic challenges, and experimental testing of different vehicle designs and constructions is impractical and costly. To make testing easier, the Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics (CEAA) at KACST has developed software that simulates the aerodynamic performance of MAVs to inform their design.

“MAVs operate in the lower speed regime and tend to have lightweight, flexible, flapping wings,” explains Alahmadi. “Their unsteady and turbulent aerodynamics are closely linked to their structural dynamics, which feature large motions and deformations. Their flight characteristics are affected by environmental factors, such as wind gusts. These factors make it difficult to conduct practical experiments on these types of vehicles, and numerical simulation techniques are considered to be a more reliable alternative.”

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeks to become a regional leader in critical areas of the aeronautics sector, which is characterized by accelerating technological advancement and increasing competition,” explains Alahmadi. “Very light aircraft, UAVs and MAVs are critical components of this sector, as they are used in many applications ranging from national security and border surveillance, to atmospheric monitoring, agricultural inspection, weather prediction and surveying of natural resources.”

 

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Saudi Arabia classified as second in the world in Cybersecurity.. among 193 nations..
KSA was 46th in 2017, jumped to the 35th place in 2018 and now 2nd in 2021..

https://www.abouther.com/node/60131...rabia-ranks-second-global-cybersecurity-index

 

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Saudi MMSC frigates with ToT..

 

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Saudi Arabia and South Korea Collaborated to Produce K30 Air Defense Systems

 

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A historic Saudi-Swiss partnership to localize air defense technologies..

Ibrahim bin Hamad Al-Zeer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rad Arabia, said during the signing of the agreement..The company will localize the manufacture and development of weapons and technologies for air defense systems..This is through its factory in Jeddah, which covers an area of 25,000 square meters, and it will maintain equipment.. And the production of spare parts for these systems that are used to defend against air targets..Such as missiles, drones and projectiles..

 

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