Egypt Defence Expo puts Egypt’s push to become a regional defense manufacturing hub in the spotlight

Arms companies and foreign militaries flocking to Egypt for last week’s EgyptDefence Expo caught the attention of Reuters, which is out with a story focusing on arms companies from Egypt and other nations jostling for position in a defense market increasingly dominated by drone technology. The state-owned Arab Organization for Industrialization got in on the action with an MoU with China’s Norinco to make armed unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition, local defense firm Amstone International Group signed contracts to supply at least three undisclosed customers with its Jabbar kamikaze drones.