| HK Systems also known as Heckler & Koch, make a range of small arms. On their website http://www.hksystems.com.au they advertise pistols, machine guns, sub machine guns, rifles, carbines and grenade machine guns, amongst other bits & pieces. |
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| Hesco from their website www.hesco.com "HESCO Concertainer® is used extensively in the protection of personnel, vehicles, equipment and facilities from the effects of weapons. Structures built from HESCO Concertainer® provide protection by enhancing the mass and characteristics of the fill material, and have been subjected to testing with charges up to 20,000lbs." |
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| Navantia is the Spanish military shipbuilding company that has won the design contracts for three Air Warfare Destroyers to be built at Osborne’s Techport facility, and the $3 billion LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock) amphibious ships, which will be built in modules in different locations with final assembly in Melbourne. The $8 billion AWD contract is the largest defence contract in Australia’s history. |
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| BAE Systems Is the third largest weapons manufacturer in the world and the largest in Europe. As BAE make everything from cutting edge space weaponry to run of the mill bullets, it is impossible to list all of their capabilities (they probably couldn't do it themselves). See "David & Goliath" under the news section of this site for an insight into how they do business. |
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Opnet provides network and application management software and hardware, as well as associated services. From Forbes.com:
In 2003, the U.S. Army's Central Command--the U.S. military authority for the Middle East--asked Opnet to customize one of its network-management products. Opnet eventually turned that customization into NetCop, an application giving network managers a dashboard-like view of traffic flow and performance. Opnet has since sold the battle-hardened application to commercial clients, including a big phone company. |
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In addition to corporations, display spaces have already been allocated for some national exhibitors including:
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South Australia From the SA Government's website "Defence SA" As the high-technology centre of Australia's defence industry, South Australia is home to the Asia Pacific regional headquarters and operations of some of the world's leading defence companies. South Australia leads the way in many defence areas, including naval shipbuilding, submarine support, systems integration, electronic warfare, land force enhancement, aerospace intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and defence research and development
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Germany From the German Defence
Industry Committee website: German defence spending is extremely tight. For precisely that reason, uniform export regulations must apply in order to safeguard this strategic industrial secto, which employees around 80,000 people across Europe. The BDI calls on the politicians responsible to courageously pull down ideological blockades and offer a real perspective to employees in the defence industry. The fact is: There is a global demand for defence equipment that is "Made in Germany", and the German industry would compete if only government policy would allow to do so! Nonetheless, according to SIPRI, Germany exported US$3.5 billion last financial year.
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| United States What can we say? The biggest arms dealing country in the world that make everything we can think of and even more things that we couldn't begin to imagine. |
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| United Kingdom Same as above, but 2nd biggest |
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Israel
According to the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs:
In order for six million Israelis to face the quantitative asymmetric population imbalance with their potential enemies, they must maintain an asymmetrical qualitative edge. Through the evolutionary process of trial and error, Israel's defense industry has focused on innovative system applications using proven technologies, avoiding investments in major platforms (except for the Merkava tank which has a unique history). Export is essential for Israel's industry to keep its critical mass because the internal market is too small to support it. Israel's defense exports have reached $3 billion annually, which makes it a significant player in the global export market in certain areas. Israel's defense industry also serves as a "greenhouse" for its growing civilian industry by training industrial leaders to succeed in a very demanding and competitive defense market, and through innovative ideas which are generated from weapon systems.
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