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Static Exhibition
Meet solution providers and explore equipment, systems and services for today’s land forces in a dedicated exhibition setting.
Land Forces Academy • Sibiu
Land Forces • Innovation • Interoperability
FORTERDEF
Forum • Demonstration • Exhibition
A new meeting point for land forces
Built around live capability demonstrations.From regional cooperation to a global outlook
The event
Where land forces meet the technologies shaping tomorrow.
FORTERDEF is organized by TNT Productions in partnership with the Romanian Land Forces.
FORTERDEF brings military leaders, operational users, researchers and industry together in Sibiu for a practical conversation about the future of land forces.
Its format connects a professional forum with a static exhibition and a live demonstration day. Participants can discuss operational needs, see relevant solutions and explore how innovation can support readiness, resilience and interoperability.
With a focus on Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region, FORTERDEF aims to become the leading platform connecting regional and global Land Forces, industry and Land Forces, and military academia and research communities.
28–30 September 2027Event dates
Sibiu, RomaniaHost city
Three connected elements
A format designed
for real engagement.
FORTERDEF combines strategic discussion, direct access to technologies and demonstrations in an operational setting.
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Forum
Military leaders, industry and research communities address modernization, high-intensity operations and the multidomain environment.
Leadership • Industry • Research
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Live Action Day
See operationally relevant technologies presented through coordinated live demonstrations at Daia Military Range.
Daia Military Range
See capability in action
From the exhibition floor to the field.
The Live Action Day is the event’s practical centrepiece: a place to observe systems working, understand how they fit into operational challenges and exchange directly with the teams behind them.
Explore the focus areasDaia Military RangeNear Sibiu, Romania
Demonstration areas are planned for emerging land-force capabilities, with an emphasis on practical relevance and interoperability.
Demonstration areas are planned for emerging land-force capabilities, with an emphasis on practical relevance and interoperability.
Forum focus
Prepared for a changing operational environment.
The programme will focus on the capabilities, people and partnerships needed to adapt land forces for high-intensity and multidomain operations.
UAS, UGV and counter-UAS
Electronic warfare
Armoured mobility
Long-range fires
Tactical air defence
Secure communications
AI and command systems
Military medicine
Training and doctrine
Research and innovation
Logistics and resilience
Soldier protection
Sponsors & Partners
Build the next chapter
with FORTERDEF.
Partners
Romanian Land Forces
Land Forces Academy
“Nicolae Bălcescu” of Sibiu
Emblem source: Study in Romania
Sponsors
Sponsorship opportunitiesFORTERDEF welcomes organisations that support land-force capability, innovation, research and international cooperation. Sponsorship opportunities and details will be announced as the programme develops.
Gallery
A glimpse of the FORTERDEF vision.
Emerging technologies, people and operational capability — brought together in Sibiu.
Location
Sibiu, Romania
FORTERDEF will take place in Sibiu, a city in central Romania with a long military history and home to the Land Forces Academy.
Venues
Land Forces Academy
“Nicolae Bălcescu” of Sibiu
Revoluției Street 3–5Sibiu 550170, Romania
Daia Military Range
Daia, Roșia CommuneSibiu County, Romania
Who should attend
One conversation.
Many perspectives.
FORTERDEF is conceived for the people who develop, field, support and study land-force capabilities.
Land force leadershipOperational unitsDefence industryTechnology companiesResearch & academiaInternational partnersMilitary medicineNATO community