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The UAE appears to be trialling the Israeli Barak-8 air defence system, with satellite imagery from an air defence site at Al-Muqatra south of Abu Dhabi suggesting a Hawk air defence battery previously at the site has been replaced by two launchers and a radar from the Israeli system, as first noted on Twitter by Ben Reuter.

Deals worth $1.8bn were agreed at Bahrain International Air Show, according to officials, although few details were publicly announced. The sixth running of the show was held from 9-11 November at Sakhir Air Base, in the centre of the island. Some 186 companies participated from 33 countries, with visits from 225 military and civil delegations.

The United States has approved a deal to sell a $3bn air defence system to Kuwait.

A keel-laying ceremony was held in Marinette, Wisconsin, for the second ship in the Tuwaiq project, which will provide the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) with four multi-tasking combat ships able to deal with air, surface and subsurface threats.

Iranian drones are now being seen regularly over the Ukrainian battlefield, following previous reports of a supply deal between Tehran and Moscow.

The Kuwait Air Force received two more Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3 jets in late September, part of a $9.6bn order for 28 of the multi-role fighter aircraft signed in late 2015.

After months of speculation, it appears the UAE has gone ahead with a proposed purchase of a low-level air defence system from Israel.

The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) has sanctioned four companies – Safiran Airport Services, Paravar Pars Company, Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines (Dama) and Baharestan Kish Company – for their alleged involvement in manufacturing and supplying drones for Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The first batch of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) arrived at Dukhan Airbase on 27 August, watched by Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, minister of state for defence affairs Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah, Qatar Armed Forces chief of staff Lieutenant General Salem Bin Hamad Bin Aqeel Al-Nabit and Qatar Amiri Air Force commander Brigadier General Jassem Mohamed Al-Mannai.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp Navy (Nedsa) is readying its latest floating offshore support base for operational deployment.

The Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) formally received the corvette Al-Jubail in a ceremony at King Faisal Naval Base. It is the first ship from the Sarawat Project to enter service.

An Iranian satellite was successfully put into orbit, after being launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The Khayyam satellite will give Tehran its own military-grade imagery collection capability for the first time.

As President Putin visited Tehran, US officials claimed Iranian military officials were actively promoting the capabilities of their domestic drones – some of them reverse-engineered from captured western models – which could find their way to Ukraine.

French defence company Thales is to supply four units of its GM403 long-range mobile radar system to Iraq.

The US State Department has approved a $980m package of follow-on support for the UAE’s fleet of C-17 transport aircraft.