page_title: Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation
section_title: Products
hierarchical_section_title: Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation / Products
caption_attribution_description: IDEF '07 Savunma Fuarı'nda çekildi.23 Mayıs 2007
context_page_description: The Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation, established in 1950, is a reorganization of government-controlled group of factories in Turkey that supplied the Turkish Armed Forces with military products.
context_section_description: The corporation mainly produces equipment for the Turkish Armed Forces, such as the ammunition for small arms and heavy weapons, artillery systems, aerial bombs, mines, explosives, and rockets. MKEK also manufactures civil-purpose products such as steel, brass, and electrical parts and equipment. Its large range of defense industry products are not only demanded in Turkey, but are exported to more than 40 countries worldwide.
  In 2011, the company has sold military products to 29 countries worldwide. The first smoothbore gun for Altay main battle tank was introduced in 2011.
  Production groups:
  Ammunition Group
  Rocket Group
  Weapons Group
  Explosives, Propellants, and Pyrotechnic Products Group
  Company and factories: there are 11 factories and 1 company affiliated with MKE located in three major manufacturing hubs:
  Kırıkkale
  Ammunition Factory
  Brass Factory
  Heavy Weapons Factory And Steel Foundry
  Explosives Factory
  Small-Arms Weapons Factory (Kırıkkale Arsenal Co.)
  Ankara
  Explosive & Propellant Factory
  Machinery and Gas-Mask Factory
  Pyrotechnics Factory
  Scrap Recycling Plant
  Small-Arms Ammunition Factory
  Çankırı
  Medium-Caliber Weapons Factory
caption: MKEK munitions on IDEF 2007
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