Manufacturer catalog

SAKR Factory for Developed Industries

SAKR Factory for Developed Industries is an Egyptian Arab Organization for Industrialization factory associated with rockets, missile-related production, anti-tank weapons, and other defense equipment. Its catalog connection is the Sakr family of 122 mm multiple rocket launchers and rockets represented by the Sakr-6 and Sakr-40 entries.

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Open sources describe Sakr as an Egyptian munitions and missile-related factory founded in the 1950s and later folded into the Arab Organization for Industrialization framework. The factory is usually rendered in English as Sakr Factory for Development Industries or SAKR Factory for Developed Industries, while recent AOI news uses the closely related wording Sakr Factory for Advanced Industries.

Sakr is the named Egyptian manufacturer behind Grad-compatible 122 mm rocket artillery systems and rockets represented in the catalog. Sources connect the factory to unguided rocket systems, launchers, artillery rockets, infrared-guided missiles, anti-tank weapons, mines, breaching systems, and selected civilian industrial work.

122 mm rocket artilleryunguided rocketsmissile and launcher productionanti-tank weaponsmilitary and civil industrial manufacturing

Notable Systems

Sakr-40 multiple rocket launcher, 122 mm self-propelled multiple rocket launcher, Artillery

Sakr-40 multiple rocket launcher

122 mm self-propelled multiple rocket launcher

Cataloged Egyptian 40-tube 122 mm launcher in the Sakr rocket-artillery family.

Sources: FAS Sakr facility profile, SAKR Series 122 and 325 mm Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
Sakr-6 multiple rocket launcher, Light 122 mm multiple rocket launcher, Artillery

Sakr-6 multiple rocket launcher

Light 122 mm multiple rocket launcher

Cataloged light six-tube 122 mm launcher linked to the same Sakr/Grad-compatible rocket family.

Sources: FAS Sakr facility profile, SAKR Series 122 and 325 mm Multiple Launch Rocket Systems

Sakr-18 and Sakr-36 122 mm rockets

Open-source references describe these as Sakr-produced 122 mm rocket variants, with some reporting cluster-munition payload versions.

Sources: Egypt Cluster Munition Ban Policy, FAS Sakr facility profile

Manufacturer History

  1. Sakr factory established

    MERIP and NTI chronologies describe the Sakr factory as founded in 1953, initially as a munitions and rocket-development facility in the Cairo area.

    Sources: Arms Industries of the Middle East, Egypt Missile Chronology

  2. AOI framework created

    The Arab Organization for Industrialization was established in the mid-1970s, with Sakr listed among the existing Egyptian arms factories brought into the wider industrialization project.

    Sources: Arms Industries of the Middle East, About Arab Organization for Industrialization

  3. Sakr rocket production described in Western reporting

    NTI's chronology cites 1978 reporting that Sakr was producing Soviet-designed artillery rockets, including 122 mm and 132 mm types, while trying to extend rocket ranges.

    Sources: Egypt Missile Chronology

  4. AOI chairman describes current Sakr output

    Al-Ahram Weekly reported AOI chairman Mokhtar Abdel-Latif describing Sakr output that included the Hafez bomb family, 122 mm rockets, mines, and breaching systems.

    Sources: Fifty years of the AOI

Website links
Official Sakr unit pageArab Organization for IndustrializationFAS facility profile

Sakr is a state-affiliated Egyptian defense-industrial factory with limited current public detail on the official AOI unit page, and English sources vary between Development, Developed, and Advanced Industries. No image was added because the official AOI pages reserve copyright and other available imagery did not provide clear reusable rights.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official Sakr unit pagePublisher: Arab Organization for Industrialization | Note: Official AOI page for Sakr Factory for Developed Industries; supports the canonical current English name, official contact context, and AOI affiliation even though the page body is under construction. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • About Arab Organization for IndustrializationPublisher: Arab Organization for Industrialization | Note: Official AOI background page; supports the ownership and governance context for the state industrial organization that Sakr is affiliated with. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • FAS Sakr facility profilePublisher: Federation of American Scientists | Note: Supports Sakr's AOI affiliation, Cairo-area location, defense-industrial focus, and production of 122 mm multiple rocket launcher families and related missile/artillery systems. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • SAKR Factory for Developed IndustriesPublisher: Army Guide | Note: Supports alternate contact and manufacturer background, including guided missile systems, infrared-guided missiles, unguided rocket systems and launchers, artillery rockets, anti-tank weapons, and CNC machines. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Arms Industries of the Middle EastPublisher: MERIP | Note: Supports the 1953 founding context, Sakr's early munitions and missile-development role, and its place among Egyptian factories associated with the AOI project. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Egypt Missile ChronologyPublisher: Nuclear Threat Initiative / James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies | Note: Supports Sakr's founding date, rocket and missile-production chronology, and references to unguided 122 mm and 132 mm artillery rocket production. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Egypt Cluster Munition Ban PolicyPublisher: Cluster Munition Monitor | Note: Supports Sakr production of SAKR-18 and SAKR-36 122 mm surface-to-surface rockets and identifies Sakr as a state-owned Egyptian producer in this munitions context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Fifty years of the AOIPublisher: Al-Ahram Weekly | Note: Supports recent AOI context and the Sakr Factory for Advanced Industries naming, including reported production of Hafez bombs, 122 mm rockets, mines, and breaching systems. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • SAKR Series 122 and 325 mm Multiple Launch Rocket SystemsPublisher: Forecast International | Note: Supports manufacturer and system-family context for Sakr-series multiple launch rocket systems attached to the catalog's Sakr-6 and Sakr-40 records. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Artillery

Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.

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Sakr-6 multiple rocket launcher, Light 122 mm multiple rocket launcher, Artillery2014 Yemen Civil WarSakr-6 multiple rocket launcherLight 122 mm multiple rocket launcherBuilt in: EgyptThe Sakr-6 is a light six-tube 122 mm multiple rocket launcher associated with Egypt's Sakr/Grad-compatible rocket-artillery family. Oryx lists the type in both pre-war Yemeni Army inventories and later Houthi-held Yemen Civil War equipment, while technical sources support only family-level details for compatible Sakr and Russian-pattern Grad rockets rather than a complete Sakr-6 datasheet or a verified Sakr-6 firing incident.