The UAE defense company Edge Group released a statement stating that Estonia-based Milrem Robotics will supply the UAE military with 60 robotic combat vehicles.
The UAE military will get 60 robotic combat vehicles and autonomous ground vehicles from Estonia-based Milrem Robotics, according to a statement made by the UAE defense firm Edge Group.
The agreement between Milrem and the nation's Ministry of Defense was revealed during the start of this three-day UMEX drone fair on January 23.
The agreement highlights the government's interest in military ground robotics by entailing the purchase of 40 THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles and 20 tracked robotic combat vehicles for the Gulf nation. Edge described the acquisition as the biggest military robot program in the world in a press release. The cost was not disclosed by the business.
Milrem debuted the most recent iteration of the THeMIS vehicle at UMEX 2018 — a few years prior to Edge Group's acquisition of the business.
The armed variant of the vehicle, equipped with the Hunter 2-S loitering munition made by Halcon, another Edge subsidiary, was also unveiled by the Estonian company in September. It is said that the aerial drones manufactured in the United Arab Emirates are the first of their kind to use swarming technology.
The UAE National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031, which was unveiled by the government in 2018, aims to turn the nation into a test bed for AI technologies.
