Spain’s new Expal 105mm ER-50 smoke shell on display.

You too can own the Armoured Land Rover Discovery 3. A/C and run-flat tyres are standard – but sirens, anti-tamper exhaust, intercom system and armoured-vehicle driver training are all extra.

The ony of the many hills outside the LAAD site.

Firefighters from Brasilia wear these bright orange jumpsuits.

Ceska Zbrojovka makes this CZ 75B 9mm Lugar 16-round capacity pistol with a shiny, metallic-blue handle. If you like your weapons Czech, go to www.czub.cz.

Beigum’s FN Herstal first developed the P90 submachine gun system in the mid-eighties, and it still looks futuristic – much more so than the earlier Steyr AUG from 1978. Bullpup designs are more common now, so it doesn’t look out of place at a military trade show, but think of what this looked like about twenty years ago…

A soldier keeps watch outside of the convention hall; rain in the mornings, sunny in the afternoons.

Training grenades at Brazil’s Indios booth – the blue are weighted dummies, black are flash bangs, white are smoke – and red, naturally, are for tear gas.

Revolving submarine models from fleets across the world, on display at the ThyssenKrupp booth.