Emirates Defense Technologies

The contract for the development of the AB17 Nimr (Tiger)was concluded in early 1999 by Russian automaker GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod)with a consortium which included the Jordanian King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) and Bin Jabr Enterprises (through its Emirates Defense Technologies subsidiary).

EDT initially started the project as a joint Russian-United Arab Emirates venture, with the GAZ automobile plant from Nizhni Novgorod holding a 50-percent stake. Engineers from GAZ and the Industrial Computer Technologies engineering firm (a subsidiary of GAZ)designed the Nimr. The UAE provided financing to the tune of $60 million.

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