HANOI: Vietnam will showcase domestically produced weapons on the worldwide arms truthful in Hanoi on Thursday (Dec 18), in a bid to revive its home trade and probably export navy gear.
Among the just about 250 exhibitors there would be the greatest protection corporations, coming from the United States, Europe, Turkey and international locations at battle with one another, equivalent to Israel, Iran, Russia and Ukraine.
The Southeast Asian nation is a significant importer of weapons, largely from Russia, which has invested for years in its protection capabilities in a unstable area the place it has clashed with China over borders within the South China Sea.
But it has additionally lately strengthened its home protection trade and selling exports of navy merchandise is now a precedence, Defense Ministry officers have repeatedly mentioned.
According to Ministry of Defense media, state protection firm Viettel and different native corporations will current missile protection techniques, drones, air protection radars, armored autos and artillery.
Some of those weapons will probably be on show for the primary time, mentioned Nguyen The Phuong, a Vietnam safety professional on the Australian University of New South Wales.
He famous {that a} key technique to strengthen the native trade was signing agreements with overseas arms exporters to have a few of their parts produced in Vietnam.
Negotiations are underway with South Korean corporations for doable new offers beneath these situations, significantly for artillery and aviation, he mentioned.
Similar talks had been additionally held with corporations in different international locations, together with the Czech Republic, officers mentioned.
RIVALS’ EQUIPMENT ON DISPLAY
At the Expo, the Iranian Ministry of Defense can have a whole pavilion, not removed from the stands of Israeli protection corporations Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
The truthful will even host a dozen stands of Russian corporations and one of many Ukrainian Motor Sich, a producer of aeronautical engines.
A dozen Turkish protection corporations, together with Aselsan, Turkish Aerospace Industries and Roketsan, are among the many listed contributors, making Turkey’s one of many largest delegations.
China’s Norinco will probably be one in all two Chinese exhibitors, the primary at a Vietnamese protection truthful.
US protection giants Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Textron Aviation Defense will even be current on the truthful.
All had been concerned in negotiations with the Vietnamese authorities for the sale of helicopters. Lockheed can also be discussing a doable deal on C-130 Hercules navy transport planes, sources advised Reuters.
Brazil’s Embraer mentioned it should show its C-390 Millennium plane, a rival to the C-130.
The essential European protection corporations will even take part, together with the aerospace large Airbus, the British BAE Systems, the German Rheinmetall, the Italian Leonardo and the French Thales Group.
