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Doha: JSC Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is organising Russia's exhibit at the International Maritime Defence Exhibition (DIMDEX 2018), being held in Doha. Sergey Ladygin, Rosoboronexport's Deputy Director General, is leading the company team.
‘The market of naval equipment and armaments in the Middle East has a steady trend of growth. At the DIMDEX show we will present more than 200 state-of-the-art models of Russia's military equipment, which provide for an adequate counteraction of present-day threats and challenges ensuring protection of national interests of the region's countries,' said Ladygin.
Rosoboronexport is presenting ‘Tigr' corvette of project 20382, ‘Gepard-3.9' frigate, ocean-going patrol ship ‘Gepard-5.1', project 21635 ‘Sarsar' missile ship, project 22160 patrol ship, ‘Alexandrite-E' mine countermeasures littoral ship of project 12701, project 21301 search and rescue vessels designed to save crews of submarines in distress, project 12322 ‘Zubr' large amphibious hovercraft, speedy transportation and landing cutter BK-16 of project 02510. Great attention from the part of foreign customers is expected to be paid to the ‘Amur-1650' diesel-electric submarines of project 636 as well as to small submarines of littoral area based on the ‘Piranya' project.
The variety of onboard weapon systems of surface ships and submarines will be represented by ‘Kalibr-PLE' (Club-S) and ‘Kalibr-NKE' (Club-N) integrated missile systems, ‘Universal-Puma' 100mm ship artillery system, AU-220M 57mm shipboard artillery system, naval automated air defence artillery complex ‘Palma' with air defence guided missile ‘Sosna-R', universal electric remote-controlled target-seeking torpedo TE-2, small-size antisubmarine weapon system ‘Paket- E/NK' with an anti-torpedo, sea bottom mines and MSHM sea shelf mine, self-propelled remote-controlled seeker-designator of mines ‘Maevka-E', integrated system of mines search and destruction ‘Alexandrite-ISPUM-E' as well as coastal missile systems ‘Bal-E' and ‘Bastion'.
During the exhibition Rosoboronexport's representatives will hold presentations of major models of naval armaments and equipment, which are the most interesting for this particular region. Besides, an extensive working programme is planned, which includes negotiations with Qatar's and other regional countries' armed forces and business representatives.
'Rosoboronexport will display in Qatar the Russian materiel, which is not inferior, and in some parameters outperforms promoted models of the main world manufacturers of military equipment. Reliability, quality and high combat performance of our weapons have been proved in real time conditions during the antiterrorist operation in Syria. This circumstance allows our partners to objectively assess the Russian weapons and material, also while taking decisions of their acquisition, added Ladygin.
Rosoboronexport is the only state-owned arms trade company in the Russian Federation authorised to export the full range of military and dual-purpose products, technologies and services. It is a subsidiary of the Rostec Corporation. Founded on 4 November, 2000, now Rosoboronexport is one of the leading world arms exporters to the international market. Its share in Russia's military exports exceeds 85 percent. Rosoboronexport cooperates with more than 700 enterprises and organizations in the Russian defence industrial complex. Russia maintains military technical cooperation with more than 70 countries around the world.
Rostec State Corporation is a Russian corporation that was established in 2007 to facilitate the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products designed for civilian and military applications. The Corporation comprises over 700 organizations that are currently part of 11 holding companies operating in the military-industrial complex and 3 holding companies working in civilian industry, as well as 80 directly managed organisations.
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