PMCI - October 2017
Welcome to the latest issue of PMCI - the only publication dedicated to Private Military Contractors. This time the PMCI team bring you their report from one of the biggest Defence Industry shows in the world, the might behemoth that is DSEI. As usual though, you'll find the mix of training, equipment, tools and firearms articles that you've come to expect. Our good friend Eli from Project GECKO once again joins us with his unique perspective on things tactical, Trampas builds his ultimate "Instructors Rifle" and, of course, the rest of the team pitch with their take on all the things that make a contractor tick!
Welcome to the latest issue of PMCI - the only publication dedicated to Private Military Contractors.
This time the PMCI team bring you their report from one of the biggest Defence Industry shows in the world, the might behemoth that is DSEI. As usual though, you'll find the mix of training, equipment, tools and firearms articles that you've come to expect.
Our good friend Eli from Project GECKO once again joins us with his unique perspective on things tactical, Trampas builds his ultimate "Instructors Rifle" and, of course, the rest of the team pitch with their take on all the things that make a contractor tick!
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NEWS: DSEI <strong>2017</strong><br />
NEWS:<br />
DEFENCE AND SECURITY EQUIPMENT<br />
INTERNATIONAL (DSEI)<br />
In September <strong>2017</strong>, <strong>PMCI</strong> travelled to the ExCeL centre in London to attend the Defence and Security<br />
Equipment International (DSEI) Show. Whilst contentious in some circles this is an event that shows<br />
the future for all things military and security oriented, and what a future it looks to be!<br />
I<br />
f you pick up any decent newspaper or visit any sensible<br />
online news feed these days you are undoubtedly going<br />
to find a story that relates to tightened defence spending,<br />
if not outright cuts in funding. With procurement budgets<br />
being sliced on an almost global level it becomes<br />
increasingly important that new and innovative ways<br />
are found to counter the prevailing threats that we find<br />
ahead of us, and the DSEI show aims to showcase the<br />
very best of them.<br />
From bullets to bandages, and from fighter jets to warships DSEI<br />
brings to the international procurement community a unique<br />
format featuring 1,600 exhibitors with 40 international pavilions<br />
that attracts over 35,000 visitors including international<br />
delegations from existing and both traditional and developing<br />
defence and security markets. The complexity of both national<br />
and international security grows each and every year, and<br />
DSEI aims to provide a “one stop shop” for inter-operability by<br />
melding the areas of maritime, land, air and even cyber in one<br />
place at one time.<br />
It’s a bold show that has developed and evolved from<br />
the traditional “Exhibition” format; between 1976 and 1991,<br />
the British Army Equipment Exhibition and the Royal Navy<br />
Equipment Exhibition were held on alternate years in Aldershot<br />
and Portsmouth respectively. Overseas delegations attended by<br />
invitation only.<br />
In 1993 the two exhibitions were combined and held every<br />
other year until the British government decided to privatise<br />
the exhibition. Exhibitions company Spearhead launched the<br />
first DSEI, then known as Defence and Systems Equipment<br />
International, in 1999 at Chertsey in Surrey.<br />
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