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Ethiopian Defense Industry
{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2021 The Defense Industry Sector is an office under the Ministry of Defense responsible for administering several defense industries in Ethiopia. Its objective is to provide for and support the Ethiopian National Defense Force. History The manufacturing of weaponry in Ethiopia was started in the 18th century during the era of Emperor Tewodros II. Historical records show Emperor Tewodros built a huge mortar called '' Sebastopol'' in 1868, in Begemder (or Gondar) province at a village named Gafat, and took it to the mountain of Maqdala. Later, under the reign of Emperor Menelik II, an ammunition factory was established in 1911, which started producing cartridges for Wejigra and Wechefor rifles."FDRE Defense Industry, May 2008 page 8 The basis for modern defense industry was laid with the establishment of the then Emperor Haile Selassie ammunition factory in 1953 with the cooperation of Czechoslovakia. Its objective was to locally manufacture ammunit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defense (Ethiopia)
The Ministry of Defense () is a cabinet-level office in charge of defense-related matters of Ethiopia. It oversees the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Ethiopian Defense Industry. The current minister is Abraham Belay. History This institution can trace its origins back to the Ministry of War, which Emperor Menelik II established in 1907, and made ''Fitawrari'' Habte Giyorgis Minister over it. Emperor Haile Selassie re-established the Ministry of War in 1942, making ''Ras'' Abebe Aregai its Minister. The Ministry is headed by a civilian minister which is a requirement of Article 87 of the current constitution of Ethiopia. It was established 23 August 1995 with the passing of Proclamation 4/1995, which also established the other 14 Ministries. On 9 January 2022, a new building of the Ministry of Defense was inaugurated. The five floor building of more than 700 offices and facilities serves now as the headquarters of the ministry, and is located on 13 hectares of land in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derg
The Derg (also spelled Dergue; , ), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia, then including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when the military leadership formally " civilianized" the administration but stayed in power until 1991. The Derg was established in June 1974 as the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army, by officers of the Ethiopian Army and Police led initially by chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam. On 12 September 1974, the Derg overthrew the government of the Ethiopian Empire and Emperor Haile Selassie during nationwide mass protests, and three days later formally renamed itself the Provisional Military Administrative Council. In March 1975 the Derg abolished the monarchy and established Ethiopia as a Marxist-Leninist state with itself as the vanguard party in a provisional government. The abolition of feudalism, increased literacy, nationalization, and swee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazareth Canvass And Garment Factory
Nazareth Canvas and Garment Factory is one of the organizations of the Ethiopian Defense Industry. It produces and supplies military uniforms, canvas, leather, and strap products to the Ethiopian National Defense Force. History The factory was established in 1988 to produce various canvas and leather quartermaster items. In 1990, a weaving unit was established to produce inputs for the canvas sewing unit. In 1991, a tailoring unit was set up to supply different types of military clothes. In the late 1990s, the then administrative agency of the Defense organizations restructured the company to enter the civilian market. The factory was upgraded with new equipment to increase its production capacity and make it competitive. Structure The factory is structured in four production units: * Canvas sewing * Garment * Weaving * Embroidery Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DAVEC
The Dejen Aviation Engineering Industry (DAVI) is a center for overhauling and upgrading military aircraft. Its primary objective is to provide depot level maintenance and carry out upgrading/modification to the fleet of the Ethiopian Air Force. It is one of the Defense organizations of the Defense Industry Sector (Ethiopia), Ethiopian Defense Industry under the Ministry of Defense (Ethiopia), Ministry of Defense. History The aircraft overhauling center was started in mid-1980s as a project under the name Aircraft Heavy Maintenance Center to overhaul Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, MiG-21 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, MiG-23 aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force. The center was intended to have a capacity for overhauling 50 aircraft annually. It never reached full capability by the time the Ethiopian Civil War, civil war ended in 1991. In 1995, the transitional government started reevaluating the project. A team was formed from different organizations and the scope of the center was enlarge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishoftu Motorization Engineering Complex
Bishoftu Automotive Engineering Industry is an Ethiopian manufacturing and assembly center for heavy armament, tanks and military vehicles. It is one of the organizations of the Defense Industry Sector (Ethiopia), Ethiopian Defense Industry supporting the Ethiopian National Defense Force. History The complex was set up in 1987 as a heavy repair center for tanks and armored vehicles. The Derg regime had plans to eventually produce tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft missiles like air-to-air missiles and SCUD missiles at the complex. Operations The Ethiopian government is doing everything to transform the country's economy from its current dependency on rain fed agriculture. Although the country's economy is highly dependent on agriculture it is not farfetched to imagine an Ethiopian economy that is based on manufacturing and modern heavy industries like mining. While the mining Industry is still for most part in the preliminary stage of development the manufacturing sector is off t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homicho Ammunition Engineering Complex
Homicho Ammunition Engineering Complex is the part of Metals and Engineering Corporation and is also one of the military production facilities of the Ethiopian Defense Industry Sector. It specializes in producing wide range of ammunition for use by the Ethiopian National Defense Force. History The Complex was established around 1987 under the name Tatek Engineering Factory with the goal of producing ammunition for medium and heavy weapons. It initially produced mortar shells but was later greatly expanded to produce a wide range of ammunition. In addition, the light weapons ammunition production line was transferred from Hibret Machine Tools Engineering Complex Hibret Manufacturing and Machine Building Industry (Amharic: ሕብረት ማምረቻ እና የማሽን ግንባታ ኢንዱስትሪ; ''Hibret mamireti ina yemashini ginibata'') is a military-civil engineering complex of the Ethiopian Defense ... in a restructuring to house all ammunition production under one organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gafat Armament Engineering Complex
Gafat Armament Engineering Complex is one of the military production facilities of the Metals and Engineering Corporation. With its headquarters in Bishoftu, it specializes in producing wide range of infantry equipment that meet the requirement of the Ethiopian National Defense Force. History It was established in January 1986 as the Gafat Engineering Factory to fulfill the need for local manufacture of basic infantry equipment. It initially produced AK-47 automatic rifles and light machine guns, as well as maintenance. It was later expanded to manufacture PK machine guns, and automatic weapons attached on armoured vehicles and helicopters. To fully utilize its manufacturing capacity, the complex has diversified by supplying various items for civilian use. It is often believed that North Korean advisors assisted with manufacturing of small arms. Products Military products include: various types of automatic rifles and machine guns; 40mm grenade launchers; various types of guns s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibret Machine Tools Engineering Complex
Hibret Manufacturing and Machine Building Industry (Amharic: ሕብረት ማምረቻ እና የማሽን ግንባታ ኢንዱስትሪ; ''Hibret mamireti ina yemashini ginibata'') is a military-civil engineering complex of the Ethiopian Defense Industry. It specializes in production of Machines and spare parts for the Ethiopian National Defense Force. History Hibret Machine tools was established on May 5, 1953 to produce bullets for light weapons under the name ''Emperor Haile Sellassie I'' (Amharic: ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ) ''Ammunition Factory''. In 1984, the Derg regime invested heavily to expand the ammunition production line and create a tools and spare parts production unit. Structure Hibret Machine tools were restructured which resulted in its ammunition unit transferred to Homicho Ammunition Engineering Complex Homicho Ammunition Engineering Complex is the part of Metals and Engineering Corporation and is also one of the military production facilities of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War (1947–1991). These states followed the ideology of Marxism–Leninism, in opposition to the Capitalism, capitalist Western Bloc. The Eastern Bloc was often called the Second World, whereas the term "First World" referred to the Western Bloc and "Third World" referred to the Non-Aligned Movement, non-aligned countries that were mainly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America but notably also included former Tito–Stalin split, pre-1948 Soviet ally SFR Yugoslavia, which was located in Europe. In Western Europe, the term Eastern Bloc generally referred to the USSR and Central and Eastern European countries in the Comecon (East Germany, Polish People's Republic, Poland, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, ČSSR, formerly known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic or Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 29 March 1990, when it was renamed the Czechoslovak Federative Republic, sk, Česko-slovenská federatívna republika, ČSFR. On 23 April 1990, it became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, sk, Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika, ČSFR. From 1948 until the end of November 1989, the country was under Communist rule and was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest. Following the coup d'état of February 1948, when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized power with the support of the Soviet Union, the country was declared a socialist republic when the Ninth-of-May Constitution became effective. The traditional name (''Czechoslovak Republic''), along with several other state symbols, were changed on 11 July 1960 following the implementation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
