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Armscor Global Defense, Inc. is a firearms manufacturing company based in the Philippines. It is known for its inexpensive 1911-pattern pistols , revolvers , shotguns , sporting rifles , firearms parts and ammunition .
Many accuse Armscor and the Apartheid regime of using South African Airways flights to smuggle arms, and many also believe that arms smuggled on this flight (many claim rocket fuel or nuclear weapon components) caught fire. The official cause is an in-flight fire of unknown origin.
Armscor refers to either: Armscor (Philippines), the Philippine manufacturer of firearms and ammunition; Armscor (South Africa), the South African arms acquisition ...
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The Atlas Aircraft Corporation (also known as Atlas Aviation) was a South African aircraft manufacturer.It was a division of the South African government-owned defence conglomerate Armaments Corporation of South Africa (commonly known as Armscor).
The Armscor M200 or Rock Island Armory M200 is a double-action revolver made by Armscor in the Philippines. It is chambered for the .38 Special cartridge. The revolver utilizes a transfer bar safety and comes with black, polymer combat grips.
In 1982, Armscor built the first operational weapon, code-named Hobo and later called Cabot. This device reportedly had a yield of 6 kilotons of TNT. It was eventually disassembled and the warhead reused in a production model bomb. [20] Armscor then built a series of pre-production and production models under the code-name Hamerkop (a bird).