ROCKETS AND EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

Duties and Operations:

• Producing rockets and explosives for the Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs,
• Producing chemical products needed by other MKE factories,
• Making dynamite and ANFO-type powder explosives for TTK, TKİ, TPAO and civilian market.

 

Tests being carried out at MKE Rockets and Explosives Factory are as follows:

• Chemical composition analysis of rocket fuels/powder and explosives
• Detonation heat test of rocket fuel and powders
• Compression test of rocket fuels
• Tensile test of rocket fuels
• Hardness test of rocket fuels
• Density testing of rocket fuels and solid raw materials
• Life span identification test of rocket fuels
• Moisture determination test
• Blast test
• Destructive tensile-compression test
• Destructive hardness test
• Corrosion tests
• Plastic material hardness test
• Plastic and rubber material hardness test
• 3D/2D measurement
• Conditioning
• Static shooting tests
• Dynamic shooting tests
• Environmental tests
• X-RAY

 

 

Product groups:

Military Products

• 66 mm light anti-tank weapon system
• 21 mm training system
• 66 mm anti-personnel weapon system
• 2.75 inch folding-fin aerial rocket (FFAR) (MK40MOD3/MK4MOD10)
• 107 mm multiple-launch rocket ammunition
• 122 mm multiple-launch rocket ammunition
• TAMKAR mine-clearing line charge system (for vehicles)
• TAMGEÇ mine-clearing line charge system (for ınfantry troops)

 

Military explosives and propulsion systems: Nitroglycerine, TNT, black powder, rocket fuels, mortar propellant

Civil explosives and igniters: Dynamites, ANFO-type powder explosives, emulsion explosives, safety fuses.

Acids: Oleum (105%), sulfuric acid

 

Production capabilities:

• Chemical processes
• Physical processes

 

MKE Rockets and Explosives Factory operates in a total area of ​​7,530,000 m² (215,000 m² closed and 7,315,000 m² open).