With 2,028 exhibitors from 61 countries, Eurosatory confirmed its role as a catalyst for useravailable and emerging innovation and new generation technology, providing the most extensive global spectrum of solutions to enhance defence and security capabilities. The French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Cornu, during his visit to inaugurate the exhibition, took advantage of the occasion to highlight its importance, global reach and strategic role: “This exhibition is without a doubt an exhibition for the military and not just for industry, to take stock of all the operational needs of the armed forces. And it is ultimately also this change of culture that we are seeing, where there is a tightening of ties between the soldier-customer and the manufacturer-producer. This exhibition was designed in this perspective, and for that I extend my thanks to you.”