soci t anonyme industry aerospace defence headquarters herstal belgium area served worldwide key people alain qu vrin ceo products rocket system 70mm 2.75 rocket rocket launcher firing control system revenue 21.7 million 2014 number of employees 70 end 2015 parent thales group website www.fz.be forges de zeebrugge is an arms manufacturer in based in herstal belgium . forges de zeebrugge was founded as a munitions factory between zeebrugge and zwankendamme 1 in the 1930s as a subsidiary of carcoke . during world war ii the site was taken over by german forces . allied bombing especially in july 1943 devastated the factory site ; the original munitions factory was never rebuilt and later remediation of this site was difficult due to unexploded munitions . 2 the surviving fz business changed focus to rocketry . 3 in 1971 fz bought the fort d vegn e from belgian army using it to store explosives . 4 modern day fz is a subsidiary of thales and is a leading manufacturer of aircraft air to ground rocket system 70mm 2.75 including rocket launcher 7 12 and 19 tube rockets and firing control system . 5 fz rocket systems are qualified and in operational use on more than 300 platforms including airbus helicopters agustawestland hal disambiguation needed bae systems embraer general dynamics hawker beechcraft and other aircraft manufacturers . in 2011 fz workers briefly went on strike in response to a belgian government reform of arms exports which was triggered by fn exporting arms to libya . 6 in october 2015 fz has successfully completed a test firing of its 70 mm laser guided rocket fz275lgr from a denel rooivalk helicopter . 7 see also edit fn herstal hydra 70 references edit history . fz . carcoke zeebrugge . adede . retrieved 26 august 2013 . home page . fz . the fort of evegn e . fz . forges de zeebrugge fz . australian munitions . retrieved 26 august 2013 . reprise du travail la fn herstal aux forges de zeebrugge et chez pratt & whitney . le vif . 29 november 2011 . retrieved 26 august 2013 . thales test fires laser guided missile developed onboard rooivalk helicopter . defense world . 30 november 2015 . retrieved 30 november 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title forges de zeebrugge & oldid 722999797 categories firearm manufacturers of belgiummanufacturing companies of belgiumair to ground rocketsherstalsoumagnehidden categories all articles with links needing disambiguationarticles with links needing disambiguation from may 2016 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 deutschnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 31 may 2016 at 11 12 . 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