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11–14 Aug 2025
International Military-Technical Forum ARMY-2025
Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre (Patriot Expo) · Moscow, Russia
- Dates
- Mon, 11 August 2025 – Thu, 14 August 2025
- Venue
- Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre (Patriot Expo)
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Organizer
- Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
- Cost
- paid
- Scale
- global
- Recurrence
- annual
- Format
- On-site
Market intel
Moderate pricinghigh confidence
ARMY is Russia's flagship state-run defence trade show and procurement forum, dominated by Russian state corporations (Rostec, Rosoboronexport, Almaz-Antey) alongside national pavilions from Belarus, Iran, India, and China.
- Since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international Western participation has ceased entirely and the event has been progressively scaled back — from a week-long format to three days in 2024.
- The 2025 edition was cancelled outright, reportedly due to Ukrainian drone strikes on Patriot Park in May 2025 and ongoing air-defence threats to the Moscow region.
Notable exhibitors
Rostec State CorporationRosoboronexportAlmaz-Antey Air Defence ConcernKalashnikov ConcernUralvagonzavodUnmanned Systems (Kronshtadt)Shvabe HoldingRoscosmos
AI-researched Tue, 25 August 2026. Estimates from public sources. Verify with the organizer.
Why it matters
For defence suppliers aligned with or seeking access to Russia and its partner states (China, Iran, Belarus, India, African and Middle Eastern nations), ARMY has historically been the single most important procurement and export platform in the Russian-sphere market.
- The forum is where the Russian MoD signs multi-hundred-billion-rouble government contracts and where Rosoboronexport facilitates export negotiations with over 80 foreign military delegations.
- Its cancellation in 2025 — the first in the event's history — is itself a significant market signal about Russia's wartime operational security posture and the declining viability of the forum as an international arms-trade venue.
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About
The International Military-Technical Forum ARMY is Russia's largest annual defence exhibition and congress, held at the Patriot Expo complex in the Moscow Region since 2015.
- Organised and fully funded by the Russian Ministry of Defence, it combines static and dynamic displays of weapons and military equipment with an extensive scientific-business congress programme.
- The forum serves as the primary platform for Russian state defence corporations and invited foreign partners to showcase hardware, sign government procurement contracts, and conduct bilateral military-diplomatic meetings.
- ARMY-2025 (the planned 11th edition) was cancelled in July 2025 without official explanation, widely attributed to the threat of Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on the Patriot Park venue.
Topics
Land systemsAirUAS / DronesAir & Missile DefenceMunitions & Missiles
Who it's for
PrimesInstitutions
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