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Youm-e-Takbir (Urdu: یومِ تکبیر, lit. "The Day of Greatness") is a national day celebrated in Pakistan on May 28 each year. It commemorates the Chagai-I and Chagai-II nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan in 1998. These tests made Pakistan the seventh country to possess nuclear weapons and the first Islamic-majority nation to do so. [8] [9]
Machine guns POF HMG PK-16: 12.7×108mm Pakistan: Standard heavy machine gun, based on the DshK/Type 54P. [16] [17] MG3: 7.62×51mm NATO Germany: Standard general-purpose machine gun. [18] Under license built by POF. RPD: 7.62×39mm Soviet Union: Squad automatic weapon. [19] PKM: 7.62×54mmR Soviet Union: Limited usage by Special Service Group ...
Type 54 - 12.7 mm machine gun, produced under license. [2] HMG PK-16 - 12.7×108mm Heavy machine gun; ... List of military equipment manufactured in Pakistan.
The Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) is a major firearms and a defence contractor headquartered in Wah Cantt, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] Described as "the largest defence industrial complex under the Ministry of Defence Production, producing conventional arms and ammunition to the international standards" by the Government of Pakistan.
According to the Small Arms Survey of 2017, an estimated 44 million firearms were owned by the public, of which 6 million were registered. The rate of private gun ownership is 22.3 firearms per 100 people. [9] In a comparison of the number of privately owned guns in 230 countries, Pakistan ranks 24th in the world.
A local gun workshop. Darra Adam Khel (Pashto: درہ آدم خیل) is the main town of Dara Adam Khel Tehsil (formerly known as "Frontier Region Kohat") in the Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It has gained fame and notoriety for its bazaars packed with gunsmiths and weapons merchants. The town consists of one main street lined ...
The system, specially designed for urban combat, anti-terrorist operations and police SWAT operations, was developed by Pakistan Ordnance Factories. [6] Chairman of the POF board, Lt. Gen. Syed Sabahat Husain, told the visiting delegates at IDEAS 2008 that this new product of POF may meet the requirements of law enforcing agencies in order to curb the terrorist activities.
Heavy Industries Taxila (Reporting name: HIT), (Urdu: ہیوی انڈسٹریز ٹیکسلا) is a state-owned enterprise and a defense contractor located in Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The HIT is wholly owned owned and sponsored by the Ministry of Defence Production and its programs are managed by Army GHQ who approves its corporate ...