IDEX 2023 — It’s no surprise that the UAE’s largest defense conglomerate has the most floor space at the International Defense Exhibition (IDEX 2023), but EDGE Group also sought to make a splash with a series of announcements from day one of IDEX and its sister-show NAVDEX. Off the bat, Abu Dhabi Ship Building, an EDGE subsidiary, inked a €1 billion ($1.07 billion) deal to provide a small fleet of new ships to the Angolan navy. Under the agreement, Angola will purchase three BR71 MKII 71-meter corvettes, as well as assorted payloads, EDGE CEO Mansour AlMulla told Breaking Defense. Each...