UAE corporate headquarters
Italy’s Finmeccanica
has been a long-standing
partner of the UAE Armed Forces,
having had a presence in the nation
for more than 40 years, and it is
exhibiting many of its products both locally
and abroad. The company now has
a UAE corporate headquarters in
Abu Dhabi.
The UAE was an early customer
for the Aermacchi MB.326 and
MB.339 jet trainers and for the pis-
ton-engined SIAI Marchetti SF.26basic trainer. Before the amalgama-
tion of the UAE’s separate air arms
to form the UAE Air Force and Air
Defence in 1999, the Dubai Defence
Force Air Wing operated a single
Alenia G.222 transport.
Alenia and Aermacchi them-
selves merged on 1 January 2012,
becoming the Alenia Aermac-
chi division of Finmeccanica.
SA Artillery