Local Defence Industry

The recently concluded DSA or Defence Services Asia 2016 held several pleasant surprises to me.  I had originally planned not to attend.  But a window of opportunity opened and I decided to drop by.

Noted several noteworthy improvements made by the local defence industry which I must say have far surpassed what I thought it would be 3 years ago.  Back then, the only key players were Deftech, BNS and SMEO.  Today, we have a a few other noteworthy new players; Global Komited, Destini Berhad, Aegis Malinnov, just to name a few. And interestingly, some of these companies are self-funded.  Some even garnered interest from foreign countries and at least 1 locally developed system had been approached by a foreign conglomerate for joint-venture.