ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has attended the First International Exhibition of Arms and Defense Technologies ArmHiTec-2016 that is held in the Republic of Armenia from 13 to 15 October 2016.
The exhibition is held on the basis of the decision by the CSTO Intertsate Committee for Military and Technical Cooperation. The event is organized as an integrated complex of exhibition and business events in order to demonstrate to potential customers high-tech, innovative developments and ready solutions in the field of modern weapons, military equipment and technologies, as well as the needs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia in the respective materiel, products and services of general purpose.
The president made a tour of the pavilions familiarizing himself with the exhibited models.
ArmHiTec-2016 expo is organized by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan Plant of Mathematical Machines PLC. (ZAO "YerZMM) and Exhibition Companies Group "BIZON" (OVC "BIZON" PLC). Military-industrial complex of the Republic of Armenia is presented by the large scale exposition of the manufacturers of military technical equipment and companies working in sphere IT-technologies. The central part of the exposition will be the stand of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia. At the exhibition will be put on display the production of such enterprises and companies as High-Tech Complex Mergelyan Cluster, UIT… (Union of entrepreneurs of Informational technologies), the Unicum Company, CJSC 'Yerevan Telecommunication Research Institute', JSC "Edzhmiacin Instrument-Making Plant", JSC " Scientific-Production Association "Garni-Ler", JSC "65 Military Plant", JSC "RT-PIRKAL", JSC "KAMAZ ARMENIA" and many others.
More than half of the exhibitors are foreign manufacturers of technical equipment in the field of armaments and defence technologies.
Among the exhibitors are well-known industrial enterprises and research institutions from Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Belgium, Germany, Kazakhstan, Italy and the United States. The Russian exposition of military and defence products is presented by JSC "Rosoboronexport" and the leading corporations and enterprises of the military-industrial sector - JSC "Concern Almaz-Antey", JSC "Schwabe", JSC "SPC "Uralvagonzavod", JSC "United Instrument-Making Company", JSC "Him- Composite", JSC "TSNIITOCHMASH" and many others.