Manufacturer catalog

Pakistan Ordnance Factories

Pakistan Ordnance Factories is Pakistan's state ordnance complex at Wah Cantt, producing conventional small arms, ammunition, rockets, explosives, propellants, and related military stores for Pakistan's defence forces and export customers.

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Pakistan Ordnance Factories anchors Pakistan's public-sector conventional-arms production base. Government and defence-export sources trace Pakistan's post-independence ordnance production effort to the establishment of POF at Wah in 1951, after the ordnance factories inherited from British India were located outside the new state.

For this catalog, POF is most relevant as a producer of ammunition, rockets, explosives, propellants, and small arms rather than as a vehicle or aircraft prime contractor. The connected KRL-122 entry uses the POF facet for the Yarmuk 122 mm rocket family associated with Pakistan's Grad-derived rocket-artillery ecosystem.

small armsartillery ammunitionrocket ammunitiontank and anti-tank ammunitionexplosives and propellantsmilitary stores

Notable Systems

Yarmuk 122 mm HE (MBRL) rocket

DEPO lists the Yarmuk 122 mm multiple-barrel rocket-launcher ammunition product under Pakistan Ordnance Factories company information; the catalog uses that POF connection for the KRL-122 Ghazab entry.

Sources: DEPO Yarmuk 122 mm product page

Artillery and armored-vehicle ammunition

MoDP describes POF as an original equipment manufacturer for artillery and armored ammunition, with ongoing firing-table and ballistic-trajectory development work.

Sources: MoDP Year Book 2022-24

Small arms and ammunition

GlobalSecurity describes POF's product range as including NATO-caliber infantry weapons and ammunition alongside tank, aircraft, anti-aircraft, artillery, rocket, mortar, grenade, and explosive products.

Sources: GlobalSecurity POF profile

Manufacturer History

  1. POF established at Wah

    DEPO and MoDP describe Pakistan's defence-production activity as starting in 1951 with the establishment of Pakistan Ordnance Factories at Wah to produce munitions and ammunition for the armed forces and law-enforcement agencies.

    Sources: DEPO defence industries overview, MoDP Year Book 2022-24

  2. POF Board ordinance

    MoDP's year book cites the POF mandate under Section 6 of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories Board Ordinance 1961, reflecting the board structure behind the public-sector ordnance organization.

    Sources: MoDP Year Book 2022-24

  3. Modern production and R&D capability

    MoDP's 2022-24 year book describes POF as the country's largest manufacturing hub and notes R&D additions in design, simulation, rapid prototyping, mechanical and chemical labs, and energetic-material work.

    Sources: MoDP Year Book 2022-24

Subsidiaries
Wah Industries Limited
Website links
Official websiteDEPO company listingMoDP Year Book 2022-24NTI facility profile

POF is a state-owned/public-sector defence producer, so current official detail is split across MoDP, DEPO, and POF channels. The official pof.gov.pk URL is retained because DEPO lists it as the company website, but the live site presented a Cloudflare challenge during this task; substantive profile claims are therefore backed by DEPO, MoDP, NTI, GlobalSecurity, and Commons sources.

Manufacturer Sources

  • DEPO defence industries overviewPublisher: Defence Export Promotion Organization | Note: Supports the 1951 establishment of POF at Wah with British Royal Ordnance cooperation and places Pakistan's defence industry under the Ministry of Defence Production. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • MoDP Year Book 2022-24Publisher: Ministry of Defence Production, Government of Pakistan | Note: Supports POF's 1951 establishment purpose, MoDP autonomous-body context, manufacturing capabilities, R&D capability, and POF's artillery and armored-ammunition OEM role. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • DEPO Yarmuk 122 mm product pagePublisher: Defence Export Promotion Organization | Note: Supports the POF company listing for the Yarmuk 122 mm HE MBRL rocket product, including POF's public-sector status, Wah Cantt address, and official website URL. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • NTI facility profilePublisher: Nuclear Threat Initiative | Note: Supports Wah Cantt location and describes POF as Pakistan's largest defence supplier and industrial complex with fourteen factories central to conventional-arms production. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • GlobalSecurity POF profilePublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports the broad product range, fourteen-factory structure, Wah-linked facilities, and Wah Industries Limited relationship used as builder background. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Wikimedia Commons POF small-arms display imagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and reuse context: the Commons file page identifies the photo as POF-produced weapons at an arms exhibition and licenses it under CC BY-SA 3.0. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Munitions

Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.

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