Frag Out! Magazine
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employment, the production of turbo- prop aircraft engines is launched and in 1975, the company also begins producing tractor hydraulics. @ Key products: ZKM 452, ZKM 581 and CZ 511 rimfire rifles, ZKK 600 series, ZKW 465 Hornet and ZKB 680 Fox centrefire rifles, the CZ 580 over and under shotguns, CZ pistols vz. 70 and CZ 75, ZKR 590 Grand revolver, the TEX air pis- tol, Slavia 630 and 631 air rifles. 1983–1988 Agrozet Uherský Brod, a concern company. The Uherský Brod company becomes part of the state economic organization Agrozet, an agricul- tural engineering concern based in Brno (creat- ed from the Zbrojovka General Directorate in the transition from a trust management to a concern). Overall, non-armament production prevails (trac- tor hydraulics, aircraft engine parts), followed by the manufacture of hunting and sporting weapons, particularly for export. The factory struggles with technical obsolescence, modernization of machin- ery is essential for the planned production of a new generation of service weapons (in the end only the production of pistols vz. 82 commences). The first CNC machines are purchased. @ Key products: CZ 83, vz. 82 and CZ 85 pistols. DEFENCE INDUSTRY