Dear friends! VIII International Maritime Defence Show will be held in St. Petersburg from June 28 to July 2, 2017! This representative forum has become one of the landmarks of our city – marine capital of Russia. It offers unrivalled opportunity to unveil state-of-the-art developments in naval and commercial shipbuilding, navigation. Interest in the Show is being continuously deepened along with number of participants growing. Exhibition and debate platforms of the largest marine forum are engaging for experts as well as for citizens and tourists. Shipbuilding heritage of the Emperor Peter the Great is being cherished in St. Petersburg. Shipbuilding complex of our city has always been and remains to be one of the most dynamic industries. There are major enterprises, research centers and design bureaus, institutes of higher maritime education. Today St. Petersburg shipyards are mastering leading edge products, implementing ambitious modernization projects. Powerful advanced vessels with unique specifications are developed in Russia for sea guarding and studying. At that 80 percent of which are launched in St. Petersburg. Leaders of enterprises, experts in marine business, government officials are warmly welcome to VIII International Maritime Defence Show 2017! The Show will be another step in strengthening international cooperation in marine science and technology. I wish rewarding work, new challenging ideas and reaching goals to all experts involved in marine business! St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko Interview with A.V. Fomin, Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia Brazil are major Russian partners here. Cooperation high-end and reliable weapons and military equip- Moreover, we managed drawing numerous fa- with Cuba and Peru is taking new level. ment we are striving to move beyond the bureau- vorable lessons as matters stand. Above all, I mean As before, aircraft engineering is the most-cov- cracy in this area by avoiding any risk to defence actions of Russian companies taken to implement eted with 51 % of overall volume of exported de- capacity and safety of our country. Import Substitution Program for OEM compo- fence products, the second place is taken by 19 % air For this purpose, jointly with the other federal nents, element base, raw materials and supplies defence followed by land arm technologies (16 %) executive bodies we carry out methodical work on used at development, manufacture, modernization and naval engineering (10 %). perfection of the legal base in the field of MTC. and repair of Russian weapons and military equip- In this way, today, all the organizations of the ment. Finally we succeeded in developing Russian – What Russian arms & military equipment domestic military-defence complex were provided weaponry and military equipment noninferior to exhibitions may be recommended for cur- with an opportunity, while meeting the measures on foreign counterparts and superior thereto for a rent and potential customers to learn recent protection of the information which contains the number of criteria. advances of Russian engineers and manufac- state secret, to demonstrate on the basis of decisions Also worth noting is that some countries have re- turers? made by FSMTC of Russia at the international exhi- cently become more and more preferential to Russia – Our exhibitions are integrated into interna- bitions in our country and foreign countries the up- at tendering process by considering its reputation of tional exhibition schedule, they are intensively de- to-date samples of military-purpose products which reliable partner in MTC domain. These days many veloping with their image and audience. Each of was not included in the list of the military-purpose people have understood that in critical situation our these exhibitions may be recommended for foreign products allowed to be transmitted to foreign cus- country will not disclaim assumed international ob- partners to have a look at arms and military equip- tomers. Formerly, it was necessary to have the spe- ligations even being pressed. ment of interest for the state military forces. cial decision of the President of the Russian Federa- The success of Russian aerospace forces in Syria Naval engineering and weaponry are traditional- tion. The decision-making procedure regarding the drove up demand for Russian weaponry among for- – What is your estimate of trends in Rus- ly exhibited at International Maritime Defence Show expansion of such products at the exhibitions was eign partners, as well. In Syria the entire world wit- sian military product export in the years to in St. Petersburg. Aviation, space technologies and air simplified. nessed Russian smart and highly efficient weaponry come? What are the countries to be the most defence assets are unveiled at the International Avia- Thus, we strive to make all of the held exposi- employed at long distances. active in military & technical cooperation? tion and Space Salon MAKS in Zhukovsky, Moscow tions interesting for our foreign partners and aimed What defense products are most popular with oblast. There are exhibitions aimed at promotion at strengthening and development of the military- – FSMTC of Russia has always been involved foreign customers? of specific products highly sought both in military technical cooperation of the Russian Federation in IMDS since the very first show. Are there – Notwithstanding complicated international and commercial domains. I mean International with foreign countries. any plans to take part in IMDS-2017? situation Russia remains to be one of the major sup- Helicopter Industry Exhibition HeliRussia held in – FSMTC of Russia has been actively participating pliers in global market of armament and military Krasnogorsk, Moscow oblast, and International ex- – What is the effect of international climate in the International Maritime Defence Show since equipment. We are quite successful in deepening hibition and scientific conference on hydroaviation on military & technical cooperation? Has the 2003. Our representatives are traditionally the mem- military & technical cooperation with foreign part- Gidroaviasalon in Gelendzhik, Krasnodar region. RF membership of partner countries changed? bers of organization committee, as well as working ners. Russian defence products have been consis- Ministry of Defense holds International military- What about the range and scope of defence groups involved in show arrangement and holding. tently exported for the recent years and we do hope technical forum Army to exhibit the key trends in products delivered to foreign partners? And, of course, FSMTS of Russia ensures control to hold the bar high in the future. development of advanced and leading-edge weap- – Certainly, any variation in global political and and coordination of Russian organizations as it does We had military and technical contacts with onry. This largest in Russia forum is held in Kubinka, economic situation affects MTC process. Global crisis at all other international exhibitions of military more than one hundred countries last year, Russian Moscow region, from 2015. resulted in commodity market fluctuations involving products held in the Russian Federation according defence products were supplied to 58 countries. For obvious reasons the interest of foreign cus- military costs cutout in a number of countries. Steep to powers the Service is vested with. Asian and African regions are the leaders in defence tomers to exhibition platforms where they can learn fall in oil prices affects the potential of our partners Moreover, in order to gain the full advantage of order portfolio with the vast majority of contracts Russian developments aimed at assurance of state to buy Russian defence products. Moreover, we have this exhibition platform used for discussing MTC gained. India and China are the key Asian partners. and citizens safety is growing – these are Interna- had to refuse numerous joint projects with our ex- between Russia and foreign states the Service sends Russian military & technical cooperation (hereinaf- tional exhibition Interpolitex and Integrated Safety partners recently. Sectorial sanctions imposed by the invitations and information letters on the coming ter MTC) is intensively deepened with Vietnam and and Security Exhibition held in Moscow. United States of America and their allies culminated Show to military and political establishments of for- Indonesia. MTC is being continued with Middle East In view of increasingly competitive environment in curtailed MTC with European countries. We re- eign states being current or potential partners. countries. Our new partners comprise Botswana, in global arms market and enhanced efficiency of main open for cooperation and hope for its prompt Kenya, Cameroon and South Sudan. Persistent ef- Russian defence product exporters at international resumption, but, unfortunately, the leaders in certain We plan to carry out all of these events in prepa- forts are being applied to establish MTC with Latin exhibitions, as well as forehanded awareness of countries seem to be unprepared to pursue autono- ration for the International Maritime Defence Show America and Caribbean countries. Venezuela and foreign customers on Russian capability to develop mous foreign policy independent of the USA. IMDS-2017 as well. Министерство ООО Министерство обороны Министерство Федеральная служба Правительство АО промышленности и торговли «Морской Салон» Российской Федерации иностранных дел по военно-техническому