MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 400 companies will demonstrate their products at the Interpolitex 2004 exhibition of special police and military hardware and the IDELF 2004 exhibition of military-purpose products for the Land Forces, which will take place in Moscow from September 7 to 10.
"This year, the shows involve over 400 domestic and foreign companies and organizations, including 40 companies from foreign countries," Sergei Marichev, chairman of the board of directors of the Bizon alliance of exhibition companies, told a new conference at the Interfax main office on Thursday.
According to organizers, dozens of thousands of specialists, including over 100 foreign delegations, are expected to visit the shows.
The exhibits will cover an area of over 12,000 square meters in pavilions and 2,500 square meters in the open air.
Organizers say that the shows' agenda includes demonstration of various types of armament, military and special hardware in actions. The event will take place at the testing ground of the Bazalt state-owned enterprise in Krasnoarmeisk outside Moscow on September 8.
The special police hardware exhibition was founded in 1992 and got the name Interpolitex in 1995. The Granitsa specialized exhibition was founded under the show's auspices in 2001. Another show, IDELF, was born under the show's auspices as well, and has now become an independent event. According to organizers, IDELF will become a crucial Russian show in the sphere of military technical cooperation.
Conferences, seminars and round-table discussions on equipping the police and the armed forces with up-to-date hardware and armaments for combating terrorism and organized crime will be held under the Interpolitex aegis.
Among the exhibits are armaments, ammunition and military hardware, special technical assets, communication, automation and data protection assets, individual protection assets, special- purpose outfits, special vehicles, emergency medicine equipment, rescue and fire-fighting assets.