IDEX 2023 — It’s no surprise that the UAE’s largest defense conglomerate has the most floor space at the International Defense Exhibition (IDEX 2023), but EDGE Group also sought to make a splash with a series of announcements from day one of IDEX and its sister-show NAVDEX. Off the bat, Abu...
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Among those designs is the Jeniah, an autonomous aerial vehicle. The drone, as designed, would have a 1,000 kilometer per hour speed and is designed to be a low observable platform. Not much else was revealed about the aircraft, and AlMulla told Breaking Defense that Jeniah is still a project in early development.
“This is a new version of [a] UCAV for surveillance and attack missions. It is a jet engine drone and can carry a payload of up to 500 kilograms,” AlMulla said. Most importantly, he stressed, “It’s only designed and developed and built by EDGE, a UAE [intellectual property], with no international partner.”
AlMulla expects the drone to be ready in four years but said that EDGE is looking at ways to accelerate the development and production phase, including investing in foreign firms to bring new technology for the design.