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Pakistan Ordnance Factory [Pakistan] |
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World ranking: outside the top 100 Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF), Wah Cantt, Pakistan What it makes POF is a group of fourteen factories that produce automatic rifles, machine guns, mortar and artillery ammunition, air-craft and anti-aircraft ammunition, tank and anti-tank ammunition, bombs, grenades, military pyrotechnics and landmines.2 Part of POF's strategy is to manufacture weaponry in collaboration with companies from other countries. It reports such collaboration with Royal Ordnance Factories of the UK, Rheinmetal of Germany, 'many' with China and Czechoslovakia and 'an excellent joint venture' with SAAB for the production of commercial explosives. 3 It produces assault rifles, sub-machine guns and pistols under licence from Heckler & Koch. 4 Landmines: POF has a history of involvement in landmine production. It has previously produced six types of anti-personnel mines: minimum-metal blast mines P2 Mk2 and P4 Mk2; bounding fragmentation mines P3 Mk2 and P7 Mk2; and directional fragmentation/Claymore mines P5 Mk1 and P5 Mk2. 5After January 1997, it started production of new, detectable versions of the P2 and P4 Mk2 mines. Exports POF has a strong export focus with one report stating that its products are 'in service in over 30 countries with an ever-expanding galaxy of satisfied customers.' 6 The destinations include countries in Europe, North America, Asia including the Central and East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 7 By its own admission, there are very, very few countries it will not sell to (see India and Pakistan, page 31).
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