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The Third International Exhibition of
Military Land Equipment, Technologies, Armament and Conversion Products
-VTTV-Omsk’99 with live demonstration at the special polygon took place in
the period of June 8-12, 1999 in the City of Omsk, Russia.
The exhibition was held in accordance with the Decree of the
Russian Government and was organized by the Omsk Oblast Administration and the
Intersib International Exhibition Centre with support of several Russian
ministries, the Russian Defence Ministry, the Rosvoorouzhenie State Company,
the Siberian Agreement Interregional Association.
188 enterprises and companies
from 56 cities and regions of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus
participated in the exhibition.
The exposition included 8 564 products as samples, mock-ups,
boards, video materials, ad brochures, including 629 – military products
plus 7965 – conversion products, dual-use products and civil products.
The total exhibition area was 15 400 sq.meters, including 7 000
sq.meters of covered area.
On the specially equipped polygon maneuvering and firing
capabilities were demonstrated by 35 kinds of weaponry and vehicles.
For the third time the International
Exhibition of Military Land Equipment, Technologies, Armament and Conversion
Products -VTTV-Omsk’99 took place at production areas of the Polyot
Aerospace Company in the City of Omsk, Russia. The majority of Russian and
foreign guests of the event admitted that the exhibition had successfully
integrated itself in the international calendar of military shows and became
the second important exhibition after the Moscow Aerospace Salon (MAKS).
Thanking to the VTTV-Omsk, experts of leading companies of many continents
found out about huge potential of the military-industrial complex, many
enterprises met new contacts and new opportunities to enter the world markets,
to expand cooperation ties.
The evidence of growing authority of the show is the increase of
number of participants by 40% in comparison with the VTTV-Omsk-97 and
expansion of geography of exponents and visitors.
188 enterprises of the military-industrial complex participated
in the show and 60% of them participated in the event for the second or third
time. Among them are: Transmash GUP
(Omsk), Barnaulsky
Stankostroilteny Zavod (Barnaul), Rubtsovky
Mashinostroitelny Zavod (Rubtsovsk), Rusich
AO (Kurgan), Institute of
Applied Physics (Novosibirsk), Izhmash
(Izhevsk), Rosvoorouzhenie
Company, Ukroboronservice GP
(Ukraine), Kurganmashzavod,
Uralvagonzavod (Nizhny Tagil),
etc.
The products displayed prove the ability of the defense sector of
industry to promote competitive products to world market – beginning from
means of personal safety to most advanced armored vehicles. Among the
displayed samples were missile and artillery armament, armored vehicles,
military vehicles, engineering armament, aerospace products, means of
radiation, chemical and biological safety, means of communication and
automation, small firearms, ammunition, simulators, means of logistics,
modernized samples of armament and military equipment, etc.
GAZ AO demonstrated
twenty automobiles and armored vehicles: GAZ 3937 Vodnik family, GAZ Rostok,
GAZ 33021 Ratnik, BTR-80A Buinost Armored Personnel Carrier, BTR-90 Armored
Personnel Carrier and others.
KBTM (Omsk) presented
the fighting vehicle of TOS-1 heavy flame thrower and BREM-80. On the stand of
the Transmash GUP you could see the
T-80U, T-80UK tanks and their modifications. The Murommashzavod
presented the TTV-219RK tank driver simulator. The Kurganmashzavod
– BMP-3 and BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles, BREM-L Vehicle. On the booth
of the Kazansky
Optiko-Mekhanichesky Zavod the Metis-3 thermal vision device allowing to
shoot in complete darkness attracted attention of the visitors. The Molot
Zavod (Vyatskieye Polyany) presented samples of small firearms for
military and civil people. The item that attracted interest was anti-tank
cartridge capable to destroy the target at an angle of 90 degrees during
frontal attack. You could also see civil weapons: pump guns and carbines made
on the base of Kalashnikov Sub-machine Gun.
In total during the show was displayed 629 – military products
plus 7965 – conversion products, dual-use products and civil products. For
example, the Polyot PO presented
the AN-74 and AN-3 air planes, space vehicles as well as oil equipment,
household equipment, complicated medical equipment and others. Traditionally
special sector was dedicated to oil and gas equipment made by forty
enterprises-participants of the SibVPKneftegas-2000 Program.
Special interest aroused exhibits of Russian the Federal Security
Service (FSB) that participated in the exhibition for the first time. The
special units of the FSB - Alfa and Vympel - are equipped with items
demonstrated. Among them are a set of noiseless small firearms (rifle,
submachine gun and pistol) inventors of which were awarded with the State
Premium of Russia; a robot complex for prevention of explosions an liquidation
of self-made explosive devices, information catchers and other means for
anti-terrorist activities.
The Federal Agency of
Governmental Communication and Information presented special software and
hardware for information protection, fiber optic equipment, holographic
methods of protection. For deciphering information ciphered by the presented
means the experts will need the most advanced computers plus 30-300 years of
constant work.
On the open site (8 400 sq.
m.) there were 101 large scale equipment, including 65 samples of armored
vehicles, artillery and automobiles with maintenance means, repair and
recovery means.
The major event of the exhibition was mobility and firing trials
of military vehicles on a polygon of
Air-borne Training Center in Svetly settlement. The polygon is equipment
with specially equipped tankodrome for the full trials of mobility with all
possible obstacles.
On the 9th of July for more than 5 hours 35 military and civil
vehicles demonstrated their firing and
mobility capabilities. Among them were: T-80 tank family, T-90S Tank,
BMP-2, BMP-3 Infantry Fighting Vehicles, BMD-3 Airborn Fighting Vehicles,
Rusich heavy Trucks, vriuos modifications of GAZ, KAMAZ and Ural army
automobiles. The visitors were astonished by cross-country capabilities of the
DT-10P carrier.
The TOS-10 heavy fire thrower, BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD3, BTR-90,
BTR-80A, T-80UK, T-90S and others demonstrated its firing potential.
The show was visited by 179 foreign experts form companies,
corporations, embassies, military specialists from more than 40 countries fro
South Asia, Americas, Europe, Africa, including LITEF GmbH (Germany), Diel (Germany),
Institute for Defense Analysis (Washington, USA), General Dynamics (USA),
Centra technology (USA), SSAB (Sweden), etc.
During the exhibition the following seminars took place: “Usage
of Armaments and Technical Means by the Russian Federal Security Service (the
FSB) in Special Operations”, “Features of Devices for Information
Interception and Methods of Their Blocking”. “Peculiarities of Computer
Systems for Gathering and Processing of Confidential Information”. Also
meeting with directors of the Russian defense enterprises took place.
For the five days of the exhibition it was visited by 50 000
people.
Practically all the participants of the event noted the high
level of organization of the show and expressed their wish to participate in
the Omsk-VTTV-2001 Exhibition.
Press center of the Intersib International Exhibition Centre
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