The UAE Pavilion at Eurosatory 2026, supported by the UAE Ministry of Defence and the Tawazun Council for Defence Enablement and organised by ADNEC Group, will feature distinguished UAE entities including EDGE Group, Resource Industries, Emirates Cable Corporation Interconnect, Al Jundi Journal and Nation Shield. ADNEC Group will be promoting the UAE’s leading defence events, including IDEX & NAVDEX 2027, UMEX & SimTEX 2028, and ISNR 2028.

MICROPROSE! INFOGRAMES! BRODERBUND! SIMTEX!

🇷🇺 The new series of "Molniya" variants was officially presented at the international exhibition "UMEX&SIMTEX 2026" in the UAE in January of 26.

Обновлённый российский дрон «Молния» в разведывательной версии «Р». Официально новая серия вариации «Молний» была представлена на международной выставке «UMEX&SIMTEX 2026» ОАЭ в январе 26 года.

📍 ABD merkezli savunma şirketi General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) ile BAE merkezli Calidus Aerospace, MQ-9B insansız hava aracı ve Gambit işbirlikçi muharip uçağının (CCA) Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri’nde ortak üretimine yönelik bir mutabakat zaptı (MOU) imzaladı. Anlaşma, komuta-kontrol ile muharebe yönetim sistemlerinde iş birliğini de kapsıyor. İmza töreni, 20–22 Ocak tarihlerinde Abu Dabi’de düzenlenen UMEX ve SimTEX 2026 fuarları sırasında gerçekleştirildi. Taraflar, hava aracı gövde üretimi, nihai montaj, test ve kontrol süreçleri ile uçuş operasyonel testleri ve kabul faaliyetleri dahil olmak üzere birçok program alanında iş birliği çerçevesi oluşturacak. Anlaşma, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, GA-Intelligence ve Calidus arasında çok yönlü teknik ve endüstriyel iş birliğini öngörüyor. Yetkililer, iş birliğinin uzun vadeli ortaklık, teknolojik inovasyon ve bilgi transferini destekleyeceğini vurguladı. Anlaşma, General Atomics’e ait hava araçlarının ilk kez bölgede üretilecek olması açısından önem taşırken, MQ-9B ve Gambit platformlarına yönelik artan bölgesel ve küresel talebe yanıt verilmesini hedefliyor.

Moscow, January 19. JSC ROSOBORONEXPORT (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is organizing a single Russian exhibit at the Unmanned Systems Exhibition (UMEX) & the Simulation and Training Exhibition (SimTEX) 2026 in the United Arab Emirates for the first time. At the event, which will take place from January 20 to 22, 2026 in Abu Dhabi, the special exporter will showcase cutting-edge Russian UAV solutions and discuss the industry’s prospects with delegations from foreign countries.

Another masterpiece turning 30 this year... one of the best turn-based strategy games I ever played: Master of Orion II (Simtex, 1996). A huge improvement over the already excellent original from 1993, Master of Orion II gives sci-fi/strategy nerds everything they need: colonizing planets, terraforming, building infrastructure, researching a gazillion ships, weapons, shields and other tech, diplomacy with alien races, epic space battles, and - of course - black hole generators to swallow capital ships in one go! The graphics were excellent, the intro got you hyped right from the start, different paths to victory (with varying end credit cutscenes), a slightly eerie/spacey soundtrack, and almost endless replayability made this game near perfect. It truly deserves a spot among the great strategy games of the 90s alongside Civilization and Alpha Centauri.

We love you, Sid. You made @JdawgKaiSigma cry with happiness. Civ hit so hard with him (me) ... I would have never studied virtually... maybe a little bit of ALL the human disciplines, not just technical ones, if you did not offer me Civilization, in a game. If you don't think games can bring, enhance, uplift, ... maybe even uphold civilization - whomever - you're drastically in error! Sid knows, he knew it so hard, he built the game Civilization with some of the greatest devs to ever live, imo. There are many more, too. And even though this is posted to Sid, and in acknowledgement of him and his teams first, he is joined in esteem and recognition of the beauty he shared with us all by his contemporary, and competitor, founder of Simtex, Steve Barcia. Who, and whose crew brought us the original Master of Magic, and Master of Orion. There are others who won't be left out in this genre [Turn-based Strategy] recognition by GBAMFS. These are just the ones Jdawg steps up to hold up, hold out, and point to as the best examples, some of the ones who he loves, and whose work he loves the most! Our site is up, our articles are OPEN for YOU to submit and gush about yours. Retweets too. @gbamfs us. Share ours too. Thank you so, so much for Civilization, Sid. Too often we don't get around to writing these notes. That changes. GBAMFS is a love-letter to gaming. There will be Reddit-like statements of love and appreciation, able to be signed/upvoted like petitions, on our site. And room for serial individual post collections as tributes too. Of course that's what we want, and we need more volunteers to help bring it to fruition. No pay-to-play, no manipulation, no bots, just people writing about what they love. I am a more civilized person than I would be otherwise, this is no cap - no exaggeration - on account of the influence of Sid's game. That is real. Completely real. It incentivized self-enrichment via learning. Something I instinctively already was prepared to take the world up on. Motivated to do. Intensely motivated, even. Not everyone shares that, mileage varies there. The ones who met me though, the people who made my path easier, and more fulfilling, it is the technology and gaming people who met me in that interest. And the whole world who got on the Internet, and scholars, artists, and others who grudgingly in some cases turned to the new tech. You all opened my eyes to so much, in the best way possible. And led me to do this, here, which I hope is worthwhile as much as I already know it to be principally. Gamers give back. You just don't always see how. People don't ask or know to look for it that way, outside gaming circles. We know, of course! So Sid, I know this has been a bit of a waffle, but it is a tribute to you, man, and those who you worked with. We view it, Civilization, and hey, the positive fallout from engaging with your game, to be VERY POSITIVE and a great thing. I wasted 0 hours in Civ. I cherished tens of thousands of hours... there are 8,760 hours in a year. I guarantee I've spent, net, more than a year playing Civ games, alone, in my life. Thank you Sid. Thanks to everyone involved in making those games (I stopped at Civ 5, fwiw.) I think I can only thank you enough in championing video games a lot, hard, publicly. So I am! PS If IRL civilization per se benefits from that too, I'm so good with that! I know you are, too. You've championed educational, high-engagement gaming all along. People should know what it means to us, how important it is, and just may prove. The fast food games, too. Fast food has fed billions and can't be disregarded out of hand. People starved for [any kinda, at least!] food or entertainment, they ain't happy. And you know what taught me that, in a perspective sense? Civ did. And it's the realest thing. Most people only know it personally or impersonally from academic work. I learned it meta. God's-Eye-View and objectively. Better than I would have otherwise. Sooner, too. Offhand, between us? Social Engineering is supposed to be a thing? Sid, you're a Software Engineer. You know their limitations. Engineering in general. Comprehensible thing. Engineers ain't crap without Q&A and technicians. My off the cuff remark. You always showed that, by practicing as tester, effectively a technician yourself, and modifier of your own work, you cared for user experience. You cared that it was fun, and worked for people. You made it real. I respect that immensely. I am a technician. If anyone, and I mean - anybody - and they're out there - fancies themselves, a ->Social Engineer<- (not talkin to you here Sid! This is for Those To Whom It Applies,) but believes, potentially catastrophically, that they can achieve their aims without feedback/channels, or without technicians' input & support, you make a dreadful oversight. There will be nothing like Social Engineering, and ultimately, limits on the scope/efficacy of Social Science / Social Work, without Social Technicians. We have social media. Don't act like this isn't a thing, folks. I may just have coined the term here. Something else I'm good with 😆 Mediating and matching technology and people's interests is my life's work [Information Tech / IT Guy ] So I will say I am a Social Technician, too, without getting all into what that is or ought to mean right now. And to bring it back, Sid, I am not the only one to learn things, any things, many things, and get pointed great directions, from your game. Others' too!! And I INSIST others still have the same opportunity. I demand and insist upon it. That's why GBAMFS. And lots of subtler, artistic reasons. Fair play too. This is a recruitment love letter, ok? I hope you approve! TL;DR Gaming got me more in touch with my humanity than a quirky Autistic boy has sense to off the bat. May have never as well too, without! Of course I'm doing this, and may *we* do it right! Co-op! -@JdawgKaiSigma

.@ad_mobility has signed strategic agreements with local and international private sector partners during UMEX and SimTEX 2026, collaborating on the research and development of autonomous technologies across air, land, and maritime mobility.

Master of Magic by Simtex/MicroProse (1994) Over 200 spells, two seperate worlds (Arcanus and Myrror) that are linked through portals, a Civ-like interface to build/upgrade your cities, and infinite replayability - what's not to love? For a game that's over 30 years old it still looks pretty good today. There was a sequel in the works but sadly Simtex shut down in 1997, and MicroProse decided not to proceed (why MicropProse, why?), so it got lost in time. 90s were a great decade for turn-based fantasy/strategy games. Heroes of Might and Magic, Fantasy General, Lords of Magic, and of course this little gem were among the best.

UMEX and SimTEX 2026 set a new attendance record with 37,878 visitors, showcasing cutting-edge autonomous systems and securing Dh3.6 billion in defence deals. Discover how this event is shaping the future of unmanned systems and defence technologies. mrf.lu/Lgfh

The partnership between @Calidus_ae, Hameem Technologies and #Aergility was made on the sidelines of the seventh edition of UMEX and SimTEX 2026, organised by ADNEC Group in association with the Ministry of Defence at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi. evtolinsights.com/middle-eas…

O 🇧🇷 @defesa_pt, representado pela Secretaria de Produtos de Defesa (SEPROD), participou na feira internacional UMEX & SimTEX 2026 (Unmanned Systems, Simulation and Training 2026) em Abu Dhabi, 🇦🇪.

اماراتی صدر شیخ محمد بن زاید اور دبئی کے حکمران شیخ محمد بن راشد کی ملاقات دبئی سلیکن اویسس۔۔ 12.8ارب درہم کے پراجکٹس کا افتتاح صدر شیخ محمد بن زاید کا Umex اور SIMtex نمائش کا دورہ دیکھئے متحدہ عرب امارات سے متعلق خبریں اس رپورٹ میں #PublicNews @MohamedBinZayed @HHShkMohd

UAE President Visits UMEX and SimTEX ow.ly/gF5350Y1xjC

UAE President Visits UMEX and SimTEX 2026 #UAE #AbuDhabi #UMEX #SimTEX #UMEX2026 #SimTEX2026 #ADNEC @ADNECGroup @modgovae @UMEX_SIMTEX

President visits UMEX and SimTEX 2026, calls them global platforms for dialogue gulftoday.ae/news/2026/01/22…

UAE President visits UMEX and SimTEX 2026 Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan toured both exhibitions, organised by ADNEC Group gulfnews.com/1.500417525

UAE President visits #UMEX and #SimTEX 2026. #UAE_BARQ_EN

Zayed bin Mohamed bin Zayed attends live aerial demonstrations at UMEX and SimTEX 2026 #WamNews wam.ae/a/bycu85d