Leading U.S. defence companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE Aerospace, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc, Pratt & Whitney, and TW Metals, LLC will be exhibiting at the show.
The organisers expect around 500,000 visitors to the show being held over five days from February 13. The show will be open to public visitors on February 16th and 17th.
The Shangri-La Dialogue 2022 comes on the heels of an eventful visit by India’s defence minister to Vietnam, speaking far more eloquently about India’s intentions in the region than a speech at conference could manage.
The official inauguration of DefExpo 2022, scheduled for March 10, had been moved to March 11 because of the scheduled counting of votes on that day in state elections widely considered to be politically significant.
The UAE’s EDGE Group will exhibit its family of Caracal rifles and precision guided munitions from its Al Tariq and Halcon entities at DefExpo 2022.
While the F/A-18 Super Hornet is being offered for the Indian Navy’s carrier-borne fighter jet requirement, it is also a candidate, along with the F-15, for Boeing’s offer for the Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter requirement.
Airbus will be featuring the A330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) aircraft, AS565 MBe Panther and H335M helicopters at the show.
Also noteworthy will be the Exocet anti-ship missile, with the SM39 submarine variant already delivered for the Indian Navy’s Scorpene submarines.
The Naval Group will also display the F21 Heavy Weight Torpedo, which it is offering for integration onto the Indian Navy’s Scorpene submarines.
The company will also demonstrate the LiteHUD Head-Up Display, the 40 Mk4 Air Defence Gun, the 57 Mk3 Naval Gun System and the Combat Vehicle 90 and BvS10 Beowulf vehicles.
The wing is built at the Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Limited (TLMAL) facility in Hyderabad, which is also the ‘single global source of C-130J empennage assemblies installed on all new Super Hercules aircraft’.
It’s also showing off its Laser Beam-Riding MANPAD System (LBRMS), Lightweight Multi-role Missiles (LMM), Laser-Guided Rocket and mortar systems.
The exhibition is expected to feature special business days and conferences, including an investment conference, a defence innovation event, an India-Africa Defence Dialogue and an India-Russia defence industry conference.
This is the final aircraft to be delivered of an order for four aircraft placed by the Ministry of Defence in 2016, in addition to the initial eight aircraft contracted.
Exercise Milan 22 will be held over nine days in two phases, ‘with the harbour phase scheduled from 25 to 28 February and Sea Phase from 01 to 04 March’.
