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This year’s live military demonstration attended by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai; His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed
Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces; crown princes of all the emirates; defence ministers and senior military officers from 57 nations, head of delegates and other senior officials, comprised of a breath-taking, all-action display that highlighted the capabilities of many divisions of the UAE Armed Forces.
IDEX, the main event organiser in conjunction with ADNEC and the UAE Armed Forces, used Protec to design, produce, direct and build the entire temporary venue for a show that was complicated and challenging.
Eddie Andradé, the show’s creative director, explains: “This show involves jets and helicopter fly pasts that have to be timed
to the precise second to match up with the action sequences on the staging area performed by armoured vehicles, infantry, special effects that include large pyro explosions on land and on the mountains, water explosions, vehicle explosions, etc.” He continues, “This involves intense coordination between the show caller, stunt director and choreographer, special effects crew, stage managers, video, audio, cameras, the Navy, the Land Forces, the pilots, the Airport, the air bases, air traffic control, road traffic control, the police and civil defence.”
Protec’s founder and CEO, Stephen Lakin, was in charge of building the entire scenic set. He commented: “Under the temporary venue that Protec built, were the exhibition centre’s utilities and drainage systems which had to be protected by the weight of the military vehicles some which weighed in excess of 60 tons.
Therefore it had to be built up to one metre above the existing surface, graded up with sand, road base and tarmac/asphalt.”