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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 .
Armscor also purchased systems abroad which were designed to SADF specifications. The most prominent of these were the Mirage III series of fighter aircraft, which were modified in France for South African requirements. Armscor's predecessor, the Munitions Board, had also imported the AML-60 and AML-90 armoured scout cars from France. [9]
Armscor refers to either: Armscor (Philippines) , the Philippine manufacturer of firearms and ammunition Armscor (South Africa) , the South African arms acquisition and sales agency
They are designed and manufactured by Armscor in Marikina, Philippines, [1] and distributed in the United States by Armscor USA, located in Pahrump, Nevada. Armscor is an ISO 9001 certified-compliant company. [2] RIA (Rock Island Armory) 1911s are derivatives of the US Military G.I. M1911-A1, the standard issue US Service pistol from 1911 to ...
Denel SOC Ltd is a South African state-owned aerospace and military technology conglomerate established in 1992. [3] It was created when the manufacturing subsidiaries of Armscor were split off in order for Armscor to become the procurement agency for the South African Defence Force (), now known as the South African National Defence Force (), and the manufacturing divisions were grouped ...
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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).