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Counter-UAS & Base Air Defence installations at Zayed International Airport (AUH)

تركيبات مكافحة الطائرات دون طيار والدفاع الجوي للقواعد في مطار زايد الدولي

Counter-UAS is a layered architecture: RF scanners, primary micro-Doppler radar, EO/IR cameras and acoustic sensors for detection; software-defined jammers, GNSS denial, directed-energy (laser and HPM) and kinetic interceptors for defeat. It plugs into wider base air defence (SHORAD) and national IAMD networks alongside Patriot, THAAD, NASAMS and IRIS-T. Buyers are defence ministries, critical-infrastructure protection agencies and increasingly airport authorities after the Abqaiq, Abha and Abu Dhabi incidents of 2019-2022. Regulation, spectrum permits and rules of engagement are as decisive as hardware.

Renamed in 2024 in honour of the UAE's founding father, Zayed International announced itself to the world with Terminal A — a sculptural, light-flooded building the size of 27 football pitches, opened the same year. Home to Etihad's Greenliner fleet, the airport is Abu Dhabi's statement that capital-of-culture ambitions demand capital-of-aviation infrastructure. Passenger volumes surged to 28.8 million in 2024 as Etihad accelerated a 170-aircraft fleet plan.

5 named installations
5 suppliers
Open capex: $2bn
Deployment evidence

Who supplies counter-uas & base air defence at AUH

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