Turkey to build cartridge factory in Mongolia

Turkey's Machine and Chemical Industry Inc (MKE) will build a cartridge loading and assembly factory in Mongolia under a contract signed with Mongolia's Defence Industry Board on 15 November.

The factory will have a yearly capacity of producing 10 million cartridges, Yasin Akdere, MKE general manager, said during the signing ceremony at MKE's Gazi Fişek fireworks factory in Ankara, Turkey's capital.

In July, MKE signed a contract with the Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB) for the supply and installation of cartridge loading and assembly and bullet and shell production lines.

Under the contract with Jordan, 30 million shells (5.56 mm×45, 7.62 mm×51, 7.62 mm×39, and 9 mm×19), and 30 million bullets (7.62 mm×51 M80, 5.56 mm×45 SS109/M193, 7.62 mm×39 M67, 9 mm×19), will be produced per year, while 20 million cartridge loading and assembly tasks (7.62 mm×51 M80 Cartridge, 7.62 mm×39 M67 Cartridge, 5.56 mm×45 SS109/M193) per year will be realised, Turkey's state-owned Anatolia News Agency reported.