Major Saudi Arabian military parade features Georgian armoured vehicles

Georgian armoured vehicles on display at one of the largest military exercises involving troops from 20 nations closed with a grand parade in Saudi Arabia on Friday.

Didgori MedEvac vehicles, produced by a Georgian military engineering centre Delta were presented beside leading American, French, British and German-produced military equipment at the North Thunder 2016 closing ceremony in King Khalid Military City in northeastern Saudi Arabia. 

The ceremony was attended by Georgia’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Giorgi Janjgava upon the invitation by Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al-Saud. 

"How proud I am to see our national-produced armoured vehicles beside world leading military equipment!,” Janjgava wrote on Facebook following the parade. 

"It’s double the joy that this is happening in front of the leaders of the 20 nations participating in this most important military exercise, including their kings, emirs, presidents and sheikhs, as well as tens of thousands of officers, military professionals and soldiers from a number of countries.” 

In addition to Saudi Arabia, other participating nations were Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Kuwait, the Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, Comoro Islands, Djibouti, Malaysia, Egypt, Mauritania and Mauritius.

Local media called the exercise "the largest in the region's history." 

Georgia’s State Military Scientific Technical Centre Delta beat some of world’s leading military equipment developers and scored a million dollar Saudi Arabian contract for an armoured medical evacuation vehicle in January.

Delta was awarded the contract for supplying over one hundred Didgori MedEvac vehicles to Saudi Arabia following lengthy trials that took place during much of last year.

The Didgori MedEvac was designed to evacuate wounded military servicemen and women from the battlefield.