Fort ('' uk, КП НВО "Форт" МВС України'' (full name), ''НВО "Форт"'' (short name)) is a

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weapons manufacturer from

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History

In 1991, a new company was formed to design and manufacture small arms for

Ukrainian Interior Ministry The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine ( uk, Міністерство внутрішніх справ України, Ministerstvo vnutrishnikh sprav Ukrainy, MVS) is the ministry of the Ukrainian government that oversees the interior aff ...

, Security Service and State Border Service of Ukraine. At the opening of Ukraine's only facility serially manufacturing small arms at Fort in March 1998, association officials announced that the plant in

, which over ₴5 million (about $1.2 million) had been invested in over two years, was capable of large-scale production of small arms. The plant launched serial production of the Fort 12 pistol ordered primarily by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Pistol samples were also sent to Uzbekistan as an advance order, and to

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. At the opening, Fort director Viktor Pisarenko said that its design bureau had developed and prepared for production 8 models of short-barreled weapons and 4 models of long-barreled weapons. "Weapons from

surpass analogs, for instance the Makarov pistol, in many respects," he said. By May 1998, Ukrainian Interior Ministry formations started receiving the first Fort-12 pistols manufactured in Vinnytsia. According to Fort chief engineer Evgeniy Bokovoj, all of Ukraine's army and police forces are supplied by the plant's output. By March 2014, the plant developed over a dozen pistol and gun modifications, some of which were demonstrated at the IDEX-1999, IDEX-2001 and IDEF-2001 international arms exhibitions. According to media reports, an agreement was signed in October 2000 for the delivery of a batch of Fort pistols to Uzbekistan. So far, it is the only country to which new Ukrainian small arms have been delivered, according to official press reports. In October 2008, RPC Fort and

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reached an agreement to allow Fort to license-manufacture in Ukraine firearms such as the

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rifle system, the

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light machinegun, and the Galatz sniper rifle, all of which were displayed at Fort's website as of early 2009. The company has offered gun modernization services to upgrade

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and

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assault rifles to modern standards by adding picatinny rails to install scopes, foregrips and bipods with new pistol grips and buttstocks

Products

Firearms

* Pistols: :* Fort-5 :*

Fort-12 The Fort-12 (Ukrainian: ''Форт-12'') is a semi-automatic pistol which was designed in the late 1990s by Ukrainian firearms designer RPC Fort. History First "Fort-12" pistols were made in 1995, since April 1995 "Fort-12N"Предприяти ...

(Fort-12-00, Fort-12-02 and Fort-12N variants) :* Fort-14 (Fort-14-00, Fort-14TP and Fort-14PP variants) :* Fort-15 :*

Fort-17 The Fort 17 (Ukrainian: ''Форt-17'') is a semi-automatic pistol which was designed in the year 2004 by Ukrainian firearms designer RPC Fort. Description and design details The pistol is similar to the Fort 12, but is much lighter. It also f ...

:* Fort-20 :* Fort-21 (Fort-21.01, Fort-21.02 and Fort-21.03 variants) :* Fort-28 *

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(IPSC) sport pistols: :* Sokil :* Berkut :* Kobra * Pump-action shotguns: :* FORT-500 (FORT-500A, FORT-500M and FORT-500T variants) * Rifles: :* single-shot bolt-action .22LR

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s TOZ-8 OPF and TOZ-12 OPFФорт, научно-производственное объединение // Предприятия оборонно-промышленного комплекса России и стран СНГ. Справочник. изд. 4-е, пер. М., 2008. стр.395 :* several variants of self-loading

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carbines - "Fort-201" (AKMS-MF with AKMS folding stock), "Fort-202" (AKMS-MF with new metal folding stock), "Fort-205" (AKM-MF with AKM wooden stock), "Fort-206" (AKMT-MF with black plastic

handguard A barrel shroud is an external covering that envelops (either partially or full-length) the barrel of a firearm, to prevent unwanted direct contact with the barrel (e.g. accidental collision with surrounding objects, or the user accidentally tou ...

and new

telescoping stock A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing mechanism are attached ...

) :* several variants of self-loading SKS carbines - SKS-MF (Soviet SKS without

bayonet A bayonet (from French ) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar firearm, allowing it to be used as a spear-like weapon.Brayley, Martin, ''Bayonets: An Illustr ...

) and "Fort-207" (Soviet SKS with black plastic

and new

) :* several variants of Tavor TAR-21 (Fort-221, Fort-222, Fort-223, Fort-224) :* several variants of IWI Galil ACE (Fort-227, Fort-228, Fort-229) * Sniper rifles: :* "Fort-301" ( Galatz sniper rifle) * Machine guns: :* Fort-401 * Grenade launcher: :* Fort-600

Non-lethal pistols

* Fort-5R * Fort-6R * Fort-10R * Fort-12R * Fort-12RM * Fort-12T * Fort-13R * Fort-17R * Fort-17T * Fort-18R * Fort-D

Gas pistols

* Fort-5G and Fort-12G

Equipment

* Police batons, handcuffs, etc.

References

External links

RPC Fort web site
{{RPC Fort weapons Firearm manufacturers of Ukraine Defence companies of Ukraine Manufacturing companies established in 1991 Buildings and structures in Vinnytsia Ukrainian companies established in 1991 Government-owned companies of Ukraine