Heptagon, the Colombian military industrial complex

Heptagon, the Colombian military industrial complex

I will recite our mantra one more time: “We have been figthing the longest guerrilla war for fifty years in a row and even so we are the oldest and more stable democracy in the continent.”

Aside of the political aspect, we have an important fact, the Colombian army has a real and valuable experience in the teather of operations.

But as long as our troops and our commanders get better in their warfare affairs and get trained using sophisticated foreign weapons, the local military industry remains very basic and without profit from the great opportunity.

Indumil is the military colombian company owned by the state which is actually running by military and is profitable but still has a low profile portfolio of products and their main client was of course the colombian army and the colombian police.

For instance, the army standard rifle fo their troops is the israelian Galil Ace, of course indumil produce some spare parts for the rifle which use to export to Israel, but inspite the huge and real experience in a real battle field, Indumil have not be able to produce a 100% colombian rifle tailored specifically for the counter guerrilla warfare in the tropic and in the mountains.

We still have time to develop our own military industry ,taking advantage of our army great experience, but we should do it together with the private sector.

Heptagon will be a military industrial complex fueled by the private sector companies and the startups. Heptagon will work trought the spectrum auction system to develop their portfolio of products.

Heptagon is not starting from scratch, Indumil is currently developing their own pistol, “the cordova” with good results, but is not enough, we should jump into the real technological wagon and create a top notch technological portfolio to take profit of our army huge experience and more important to be cemented in our army amazing goodwill and great reputation