je o type public limited company industry arms industry founded kragujevac serbia first founded 27 october 1853 headquarters kragujevac serbia area served worldwide key people milojko brzakovi general director products firearms artillery revenue 33.83 million 2013 1 net income 5.02 million 2013 1 total assets 89.51 million 2013 1 total equity 2.05 million 2013 1 owner serbian development fund 49.52 % government of serbia 47.99 % jugobanka bankrupt 1.72 % kragujevac 0.72 % 2 number of employees 2 189 1 website www.zastava arms.rs zastava arms serbian cyrillic o is a serbian manufacturer of firearms and artillery based in kragujevac serbia . it was founded in 1853 when it cast its first cannons . it is the leading producer of firearms in serbia and is a large contributor to the local defense industry . zastava arms produces and exports a wide variety of products to over forty countries . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 air guns 2.2 hunting rifles 2.3 semi automatic sporting rifles pistols 2.4 shotguns 2.5 revolvers 2.6 pistols 2.7 bolt action rifles 2.8 semi automatic rifles 2.9 automatic rifles 2.10 machine guns 2.11 submachine guns 2.12 sniper rifles 2.13 anti materiel rifles 2.14 grenade launchers 3 references 4 external links history edit gun foundry in 1856 . workshop of zastava arms in 1910 . the successful production of four four pound cannons and two short howitzers on october 27 1853 is date of foundation of zastava arms in kragujevac . between 1856 an 1860 the facilities in kragujevac received many upgrades to its manufacturing system eventually allowing the plant to produce weapons with full parts interchangeability . in 1878 one of the main priorities became the modernization of armaments . serbian rifle pibodu a model 1870 peabody became obsolete with their large 14 9mm caliber . 3 after a research project and a competitive tender in 1879 a new model rifle was chosen as the replacement . the first domestic made repeating rifle a derivative of the mauser model 1871 bolt action rifle was designed in 1880 by kosta milovanovi and was named mauzer milovanovi m. 1880 known as mauser koka or koka s rifle after its designer . the weapon was first manufactured in germany and was called the mauser milovanovi m1878 80 cal . 10 15mm . 4 in 1924 and 1925 the ministry of the interior signed contracts with fn herstal belgium which allowed the production of m24 series bolt action rifles chambered in 7.92 57mm mauser . factory for production of rifles and infantry ammunition was also built . the factory for production of infantry ammunition started to work on march 22 1928 and the factory for production of rifles and ammunition was put to operation on october 15 75th anniversary of first casting of cannons in kragujevac . during 1930 the factory started the production of signal pistols 26 mm m 1929 on the basis of czechoslovakian licence . in july 1936 the factory got a licence from the czechoslovakian zbrojovka brno to produce light machineguns 7 9 mm m 1937 . model 48 mauser . zastava arms was heavily damaged during world war ii . when kragujevac was liberated in october 21 1944 the weapons factory was put back into working order within months and production began shortly after with the 9mm m 1944 b2 submachine gun developed during the same year . the next postwar production rifle was the 7.92 57mm mauser model 1948 on the basis of model 24 . the production of air rifles and sporting rifles on the basis of rifle m48 started in 1953 . in 1954 the zastava started the production of shotguns and small bore rifles as well as machine gun 7 9 mm m42 sarac . batch production of semi automatic rifle pap m59 7.62 39mm started in 1964 . in the 1964 the factory started the development of automatic rifle of kalashnikov system which was named m67 in 1967 . on the basis of rifle m67 the factory developed automatic rifle in caliber 7.62 39mm which was named zastava m70 in the following year . yugoslav people s army included assault rifle m70 in calibre 7.62 39mm into its armament in 1970 . small arms derivatives of the m70 produced rifles chambered in western bloc ammunition such as 7.62 51mm nato and 5.56 45mm nato . in 1988 the factory developed a compact design pistol in 9 mm parabellum model m88 . pap m59 66 yugo sks with a rifle grenade launcher and folding bayonet . in the 1980s the plant for action of machine guns m84 m86 in 7.62 54mmr and heavy machine gun in 12.7 nsv m87 was set to operation as well . in july 1989 zastava started the development of the double action pistol in calibre 9mm para cz 99 . in 1992 the factory finished the development and testing and started batch production of 7.62 mm submachine gun m92 based on submachine gun m85 . using the mauser mechanism the factory developed 12.7 mm long range rifle black arrow m93 . during the yugoslav wars of 1991 to 1995 the united nations placed economic sanctions on the import and export of weapons from yugoslavia production slowed as a result . in 1999 the factory was damaged by nato bombing . in 2005 zastava arms underwent restructuring . the same year a memorandum of understanding was signed with remington arms to export hunting and sporting guns to the united states canada and mexico . products edit air guns edit vp97 gp45 hunting rifles edit lk m48 63 lk m70 lk m85 lk m808 semi automatic sporting rifles pistols edit pap m70 pap m77 pap m85 pap m92 shotguns edit lp m75 lp m80 lp m91 lp 12 pa lp 12 pas mp 12 pa revolvers edit zastava m83 92 exclusive m83 r 357 r 44 pistols edit p25 m57 m70a tetejac m70 p elica m88 cz 99 cz 999 ez ppz bolt action rifles edit m24 m48 semi automatic rifles edit pap m59 66 papovka automatic rifles edit m70 m77 m80 m85 m90 m92 m21 machine guns edit m1937 m53 arac m72 m77 m82 m84 ceca m02 coyote submachine guns edit m1942 m1944 m1945 m49 m51 m56 m65 m84 m97 master flg sniper rifles edit m76 m91 m93 m07 anti materiel rifles edit m93 black arrow m12 black spear grenade launchers edit bga 30mm bgp 40 mm m70 references edit a b c d e . agencija za privredne registre srbije in serbian . retrieved 7 october 2014 . statisti ki prikaz vlasni tva preduze a zastava oru je . crhov.rs in serbian . centralni registar depo i kliring hartija od vrednosti . retrieved 6 october 2014 . collection of 19th century weapons until 1918 . archived october 6 2011 at the wayback machine . military museum viktor kova evi august 1998 . koka popravlja mauzera . srpsko nasle e istorijske sveske broj 8 in serbian . nip glas . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to zastava arms . serbian and yugoslav mauser rifles bogdanovi branko official website m1878 80 serbian mauser retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zastava arms & oldid 730816964 categories zastava armscompanies established in 1853defence companies of serbiafirearm manufacturers of serbiagovernment owned companies of serbiacompanies based in kragujevachidden categories cs1 uses serbian language script 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