The units and enterprises of the Ministry of Defence Industry, established in 2005 on the initiative of President of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev, provide the Azerbaijani Army with weapons and ammunition.
Specialists of the ministry, together with the military, are testing new firearms and ammunition in real combat conditions, Report says.
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defence Industry has begun the mass production of a new type of unmanned aerial vehicles, "Iti qovan" ("Dog Chaser"), with greater destructive power. This historic expression stated by Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev has been inscribed on UAVs' wings.
At present, these UAVs are in the armament of the Azerbaijani Army.