name bengali type state owned enterprise founded 1970 ; 46 years ago 1970 headquarters gazipur dhaka division bangladesh area served bangladesh products firearms artillery fuses detonators explosives . owner bangladesh army website www.bof.gov.bd bangladesh ordnance factories bof is the largest military industrial complex of bangladesh army ; situated in gazipur which produces arms ammunition and equipment for the bangladesh military . contents 1 history 2 technology 3 factories 4 products 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit establishment of bangladesh ordnance factory commenced in 1968 with the technical and financial assistance of peoples republic of china . it was inaugurated on 6 april 1970 . although it suffered considerable damage during the war of bangladesh liberation war in 1971 its capabilities have been restored and expanded since then . in 1982 1983 bmr balancing modernization replacement works started which was completed in 1987 . after the bmr the yearly production target of the factory was determined to be 2500 rifles and 15million ammunition per annum . project on establishment of automatic assault rifle bd 08 factory was under taken in 2004 2005 and it was successfully implemented in the year 2008 . 1 2 technology edit initially bof was set up with technologies machines equipment and support facilities from china but gradually technology transfers from austria australia belgium germany & italy were added . bof now boasts a mix of conventional and state of the art computerized controlled processes systems for manufacturing . factories edit it currently operates the following factories . 3 small arms factory small arms ammunition factory grenade manufacturing factory artillery ammunition factory tools manufacturing plant products edit bd 08 licensed version of chinese type 81 assault rifle 4 heckler & koch g3 assault rifle under tot type 56 assault rifle licensed product see also edit bangladesh machine tools factory references edit bangladesh ordnance factories bangladesh ordnance factories . bof.gov.bd . bangladesh military forces blog . bdmilitary.blogspot.com . b.o.f. about us china and russia dominate bangladesh arms imports in 2015 16 bangladesh military forces . bdmilitary.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . external links edit official site of bangladesh ordnance factories retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bangladesh ordnance factories & oldid 736693589 categories defence companies of bangladeshcompanies established in 1970hidden categories articles containing bengali language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aishrvatski edit links this page was last modified on 29 august 2016 at 06 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view