407 - All Crew – Portable Direct Fire Weapons of Calibre less than 50 mm
ARSENAL 2000 JSCo
Rich and long-term experience, excellent management, highly skilled personnel, well equipped production lines, good feeling of the market, Customers’ thrust and recognition – all this combined is ARSENAL 2000 JSCo, Kazanlak - the biggest Company from the Bulgarian Defence Industry Association and a distinguished multi-functional infra-structural Company with a leading position in the National Economics and traditions in design, production, engineering and trade of military and civilian products.
ARSENAL 2000 JSCo has more than a 148-year-long history. It was established in 1878 in the town of Rousse as the first factory meant to serve the newly created Bulgarian Army. In 1924, due to some strategic considerations it was transferred to Kazanlak by law of the National Assembly.
Nowadays, the activities of ARSENAL 2000 JSCo. are:
- design, manufacturing and trade of small arms and artillery armaments, ammunition, primers, powders, charges, pyrotechnic products, hunting and sport weapons and ammunition, cemented carbide tools, tips and inserts, casting, forging etc.;
- engineering activity.
The company has been operating on the market since 1993, when it began supplying products from the legendary Carl Walther arms company to the Czech market. Since then, the portfolio of brands represented by the company has grown to include many other world-famous names: FN Herstal, Accuracy International, Lapua, Magtech, Desert Tech, Rheinmetall, Swiss P, Nightstick and many others.
The company is a reliable and proven supplier of weapons, ammunition and accessories to both the armed forces and the civilian markets.
The Belgian arms manufacturer FN Herstal is one of the leaders in the market of military automatic weapons and their applications. This world-famous manufacturer currently has in its portfolio a wide and comprehensive range of machine guns from the super-light FN EVOLYS weapons, through the proven and widespread FN MINIMI, the highly durable and reliable FN MAG machine guns used in both mounted and infantry applications, to the legendary large-caliber "Ma-Deuce" FN M2HB-QCB.
The company also supplies modern SCAR and ARKA assault rifles, SCAR PR sniper rifles, FN P90 submachine guns and FN Five-seveN pistols in the original 5.7x28 caliber, as well as FN 303 non-lethal launchers.
FN Herstal also develops, tests and produces its own ammunition in NATO calibers (5.7x28, 5.56x45, 7.62x51, 9x19 and 12.7x99).
An integral part of the FN arms company's range are also solutions for mounting and installations the offered weapons on various land, water and air technicals, as well as electronic systems for fire control or fire correction.