Important Facts For Prelims
DefExpo-2022
- 05 Mar 2022
- 1 min read
Why in News?
Recently, the Defense Expo 2022 has been postponed, due to logistics problems being experienced by participants.
What are the Key Points?
- It were to be the 12th edition of DefExpo held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat in March 2022.
- The 11th edition of DefExpo was held at Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) in 2020.
- DefExpo is a flagship biennial event of the Ministry of Defence, showcasing the land, naval, air as well as homeland security systems.
- Spread over 1 lakh sq m., this year’s defexpo was to be the largest since its inception in 1996.
- The event is expected to help boost investment, expand manufacturing capacities and capabilities, discover avenues for technology absorption and thus, contribute to furthering the target of USD 5 billion defense export by 2024 under Atmanirbharta’ in defence.
