“In August next year we will hold the sixth International Military-Technical Forum“ Army ”. A distinctive feature of the forum will be that we will hold it simultaneously with the Army International Games, ”Shoigu quotes TASS.
According to him, this will increase the level of representation of foreign delegations, expand the possibilities of official negotiations and meetings, positively affect the image and popularity of events.
Shoigu noted that in 2019, the forum was visited by more than 1.3 thousand enterprises and organizations that presented more than 27 thousand samples of military and dual-use products, and 46 government contracts worth over 1 trillion rubles were signed at the site, “on a grand scale »Demonstrations of the latest military equipment were held.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that eleven African countries took part in the Army International Games in 2019.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense called the number of visitors to the Army 2019.