OREANDA-NEWS. February 22, 2011. OJSC KAMAZ participates in the 10th International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2011) which takes place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center, the UAE.

KAMAZ, one of 33 Russian enterprises of the defence industry participating in the exhibition, again presents products of the Russian automobile industry there. The company displayed an armored version of its crew bus on all-wheel-drive chassis KAMAZ-43118 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The vehicle is meant for transportation and defence of task forces under conditions of military operations. An armored cab and an armored body of Class 5 according to GOST R 50963-96 secure the crew and the vehicle. A lot of vehicles of this purpose are demonstrated at IDEX 2011. KAMAZ’s crew bus is easy to service and, to add to this, much cheaper than its foreign analogues.

This largest military equipment exhibition held in odd years hosts a record number of exhibitors from all corners of the world: over one thousand companies from 49 countries placed their stands and expositions on an area of 3.6 hectares. The Russian exhibits occupy an area of 650 square meters. This year, a naval defence exhibition – NAVDEX 2011 – is co-located with IDEX.

The delegation of the Russian Federation is headed by Mikhail Petukhov, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation at the exhibition. Yesterday, Vladimir Popovkin, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the RF, General of the Army, participated in an exhibition opening ceremony. KAMAZ is presented by Ashot Arutyunyan, Director of Marketing and Advertising.