Another edition and another record. present ended the XXXIV global Defence manufacture Exhibition in Kielce. The event brought together the leaders of the arms industry, and at the stands prepared by them 1 could see equipment and weapons that specify a modern battlefield. Traditionally, the last accent of MSPO was the presentation of awards.
Courage – this is the word, according to Andrzej Mochoń, president of the Kielce Fair, best describes International Defence manufacture Exhibition. The decision of more than 30 years ago to organise an arms fair in Kielce, as well as later decisions to invest in the improvement of the fair centre, in which the event takes place all year, required courage. Today's 34th edition of MSPO is the fruit of this courage. And it was a evidence event in all respect. Never before has the Salon hosted so many visitors (45 1000 people), so many state delegations (more than 40 countries) and so many exhibitors. 1200 companies and institutions presented their products this year. In comparison, there were only half as many as 4 years ago.
MSPO has established its position in the absolute top of exhibition arms manufacture events in Europe. He proved that no major maker of equipment and weapons could skip the Kielce fair on his calendar, and everyone curious in buying specified products can number on seeing a truly comprehensive offer here. But the ambition of the organizers reaches higher. As declared in his interview with “Polish Armed Forces” Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish, the goal is to outrun the event that takes place in London, or DSEI.
– I have no uncertainty that we have shown together that it is in Kielce that the arms heart of Europe beats – she said Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence and president of the MSPO Programme Council. In her opinion, the fair besides showed how the modern battlefield is changing. – erstwhile we talked about awards, there was not so much about dense equipment. The equipment is getting smaller, compact, modern, due to the fact that the technology changes all day – noted the Deputy Minister.
The next year's MSPO edition will take place from 31 August to 3 September, and Turkey will be a partner country.
Awards and distinctions
President Karol Nawrocki, head of the armed forces, awarded the award for the product best served to increase the level of safety of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Poland. They got it. Polish Armed Forces Group and PIT-Radwar for P-18PL mobile long-range pre-detection radar.
The peculiar award was awarded by Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. According to the head of the MON, Flytronic deserves a discrimination drone strategy Gladius 2.
On the another hand, the MSPO Programme Council decided to award its peculiar award to a peculiar technological and industrial consortium composed of: Naval Academy (leader), method Institute of Aviation Forces, Military method Academy and Jastrzębska Węglowa for demonstration of the technology of the Unmanned Ships swarm for detection, classification and tracking of underwater objects.
The Program Council, which includes representatives of the government, the Polish Army and uniformed services, besides awarded the flagship MSPO awards, i.e. the Defenders. 108 products stood to compete for statues this year. Among them, the competition committee distinguished:
– consortium composed of: AGH University of discipline and Technology in Kraków (leader), Polremaco and Hydromel for a universal engineering device designed to dig a shooting ditch,
– Maskpol for HBT-02 ballistic helmet,
– Military method Institute of Arms – leader, metallic Plant “Desamet” – syndicate for RPG-25 „Nuter”,
– Military Central Engineering and Technology Office for Aerospace Power Plant for Looses II/M aircraft p. VII,
– Radmor for StormRider system,
– PCO (leader) and metallic Plant “Desamet” for the strategy of self-backed soft-kill vehicle C-OBRA,
– Military Institute of Armoured and car Techniques (leader), Chema DS, Mechanical Plant Tarnów, PCO, Nitro-Chem, Telesystem-Mensko improvement and Implementation Center system of autonomous multi-purpose unmanned vehicles ‘Sfora’,
– Creotech Quantum Stock Company for QGebo, Quantum Key Distribution System,
– Hammar Maskin AB for Hammar XXL36,
– Autobox Innovations for Mobile Approving Station On the STAR 266M2 vehicle.
The Honorable Head of the Armed Forces Support Inspectorate received the spit. Paweł Ojdanna from the 52nd Repair Battalion of the 1st Logistics Brigade for modernity and innovation during the 34th MSPO.
The commander of the territorial defence troops awarded his main prize to Concept Light combat vehicle Virus-L. The award was awarded to Hertz Systems for portable modular anti-drone system.
The following shall be awarded to the operational commander:
in cyberspace category – CloudFerro for Mobile, container cloud strategy Bastion,
in the logistics category – Modular strategy for modular construction,
in the category Military recognition Area – Satim for Orec software,
in the category of command, support and military protection – method Institute of the Air Force for Syland laser drone demolition system.
The commander-general of types of armed forces award for winning the competition at the best stand at the Armed Forces Exhibition went to the Inspectorate of the Unmanned Armed Systems Army.
The WB Group was awarded a peculiar prize to the Minister of Finance and Economy for the best Polish exporter of arms.
The award of the manager of the National Centre for investigation and improvement went to the consortium of PIT-Radwar, the Military method Academy and the Warsaw University of Technology for developing a radar prototype for a short-range anti-aircraft defence kit.
The president of the Board of the Kielce Fair distinguished NovaResk and Ale Hale companies for the container workshop of incremental technologies.
