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World ranking: outside the top 100 FN Herstal, SA, Voie de Liege 33, B-4040 Herstal, Belgium BACKGROUND FN Herstal SA is part of the Herstal Group, headquartered in Liège, Belgium. The Group has offices in nine other European countries, North America and Asia. 2 The Herstal Group produces weapons under the brand names FN Herstal, Browning and Winchester. What it makes FN Herstal designs and manufactures firearms and ammu-nition for the military and law enforcement agencies, including pistols, rifles and submachine guns. Its products include the NATO-standard M16A2 assault rifle (also produced by Colt Manufacturing); the M249 Minimi machine gun; the M240 armour machine gun; the FN FAL automatic rifle; and the P90 submachine gun.3Herstal also supplies machine guns, mounts, pods and rocket launchers to equip helicop-ters and aircraft.4 Exports and licensed production FN Herstal's products are used by the Armed Forces of more than 100 countries.5 Its FN FAL automatic rifle is produced under licence in ten countries including Brazil, Israel, India, Mexico, South Africa and Venezuela.6 It has also built an ammunition factory in Eldoret, about 300 kilometres north east of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The factory produces 20 million 7.62 NATO-standard rounds of ammunition a year.7 In 2002, FN Herstal received Belgium government approval to export 5,500 Minimi machine guns to Nepal. 8 Despite a public outcry and subsequent delay to the deal, delivery began in December 2002.9
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