Defence Avionics & Radar installations at Hamad International Airport (DOH)

Defence avionics is the sensor and computing core of any combat aircraft: AESA fire-control radars, IRST, EW self-protection suites, RWR/MAWS, mission computers, datalink-capable flight management, and advanced HMIs including helmet-mounted displays. The category also covers ground-based surveillance and air-defence radars protecting airbases and critical infrastructure. Procurement is defence-ministry-led and sits inside broader platform programmes (F-15EX, F-16V, Eurofighter, Rafale, KAAN) alongside offset and local-content commitments that increasingly require GCC-based assembly or MRO.

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.