Fort (' (full name), ''НВО "Форт"'' (short name)) is a Ukrainian 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, 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 Israel Weapon Industries reached an agreement to allow Fort to license-manufacture in Ukraine firearms such as the Tavor 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 AKS-74 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 (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 :* 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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) and "Fort-207" (Soviet SKS with black plastic handguard and new telescoping stock) :* 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 Pistol Variants

* 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