Defence Avionics & Radar installations at King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED)

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.

Jeddah is the gateway to Makkah — and few airports carry such spiritual and logistical weight in a single footprint. Its Hajj Terminal, a Skidmore Owings & Merrill marvel of tented fibreglass, has moved pilgrims for four decades while the new Terminal 1 by HOK now handles Saudia's widebody flows. 2024 traffic climbed to 49.1 million as the Kingdom chases a goal of 150 million pilgrims and tourists a year by 2030.