ARFF Crash Tenders & Rapid Intervention Vehicles installations at Hamad International Airport (DOH)

The core airport firefighting fleet: purpose-built crash tenders in 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 configurations carrying large water and foam payloads, plus lighter rapid intervention vehicles (RIVs) for first-response inside the mandated time window. These platforms anchor an airport's declared ICAO rescue and firefighting category — CAT-9/CAT-10 for A380 and 777X operations. Procurement is led by airport operations and civil aviation authorities against strict response-time, discharge-rate and reserve-vehicle rules, and increasingly weighs electric and hybrid drivelines. Also covers OEM spare parts and contracted RFFS operation of the fleet.

Hamad International is what happens when a state airline designs its own cathedral. Opened in 2014 and already expanded twice, it serves as Qatar Airways' global spine and routinely tops Skytrax's best-airport rankings. 2024 traffic hit 52.7 million passengers and cargo cleared 2.6 million tonnes — both records. Phase C, now in tender, will lift capacity beyond 70 mppa and add a second passenger processing hall.