Italy had their military industry display at the last year’s jubilee edition of MSPO. The wealth and diversity of Italian offer put on display at the 20th MSPO was the one of the results of the defence cooperation memorandum which had been signed by Poland’s and Italian’s Ministers of Defence.

Turkish exhibition offer promises to be equally rich and abundant. The opening ceremony of the 21st International Defence Exhibition MSPO will be added extra splendour owing the performance of Turkey’s oldest military band – the Mehteran. The Turkish ensemble, in conjunction with Polish Armed Forces Representative Band will be playing the national anthems of Poland and Turkey as well as the Turkish March. The Mehteran is also the oldest Europe’s military orchestra; the ensemble’s presence at the MSPO marks the 90th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Turkey as well as the 2014’s 600th jubilee of diplomatic relations development between our country and the Ottoman Empire.

According to the MSPO organisers, it has already become the tradition of the military show that a special attention is paid to the presentation of Poland’s Military Forces’ cutting-edge equipment and gear used in international peace-keeping missions. The dynamic presentation will also give the sample of Polish soldiers’ day-to-day duties at foreign missions. At the last year’s expo, the soldiers of the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanised Brigade and the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade demonstrated the mechanised platoon operation in an ambush. The demonstration was staged by the soldiers and commanders who had gathered extensive experience during the Afghanistan missions. In the presentation scenario, the enemy attacked the soldiers with the use of an Improvised Explosive Device, mortars and riffles. The soldiers presented the mandatory procedures which encompassed platoon’s cooperation with the attack helicopters and evacuation of the injured from the assault scene.