AAD enables local industries to forge relationships with foreign counterparts, resulting in mutually beneficial research, development and manufacturing ventures. As the only exhibition on the African continent that facilitates dialogue, discourse and collaborative solutions, AAD empowers defence, security and aerospace delegations looking to strengthen their capabilities to invest in equipment sourced from around the globe and build on indigenous defence industrial capacity.
With core interests seeded in the aerospace and defence industries, by expanding the envelope of AAD to ancillary sectors such as research establishments, the security industry, firefighting, humanitarian organisations, transport and the oil and gas mining industries, AAD2026 will enable co-operative innovations, technologies and investments across parallel plains of challenges and shared threats.
Featured Business Areas
CIVIL AVIATION
- Commercial Transport Aircrafts
- Business & Corporate Aviation Aircrafts
- Helicopters
- General Aviation Aircrafts
AIRPORT EQUIPMENT & SERVICES
- Ground Support Equipment & Services
- Cargo & Logistics
- Airport Security
- Air Traffic Management
- ATC Equipment
- Radar & Navigation Receivers & Transmitters
- Simulators & Training Equipment
LAND SYSTEMS
- Armoured & Unarmoured Land Combat Vehicles
- Logistics Vehicles
- Platforms / Propulsion
- Robots
- Equipment
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
- Launchers & Spacecrafts
- Satellite Navigation
- Space Systems & Imaging
WEAPONS, ARMAMENTS & COMBAT CONTROL SYSTEMS
- Missile Weapons & Armaments
- Artillery Weapons & Armaments
- Lethal & Non-Lethal Ammunition
- Pyrotechnics
- Launchers & Launching Systems
- Fire Control Systems
UAV'S
- Airframe Manufacturers
- Component / Spare Parts Suppliers
- Software Developers
- Civil Applications
- Military Applications
- Law Enforcement Applications
MAINTENANCE
- Maintenance Repair & Overhaul-MRO
- Interiors, Conversion, Modification
- Spare Parts Management & Services
- Chemicals / Paints / Coating
- Fuel / Lubricants
- Machines / Tools
- Engines
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Individual Clothing & Equipment
- Health & Survival Equipment
- Personal Security, Protection & Rescue
- Surveillance
- Mine Clearance Equipment
- Antiterrorism
- Special Forces
MILITARY AVIATION & DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY
- Military Helicopters
- Military Training & Simulation
- Air Defence Systems
- Combat & Transport Aircrafts
- Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
- C41 / Battlefield Management
ORGANISATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS
- Governmental & Intl. Organisations
- Industrial Aerospace Organisations
- Fairs & Events
ENERGY
- Gas
- Solar
- Financial Services
- Engineering firms
- Development Institutions
- Petroleum and Refineries
