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==Defence industries==
{{Main|Myanmar Directorate of Defence Industries}}
The Myanmar Directorate of Defence Industries (DI) consists of 25 major factories throughout the country that produce approximately 70 major products for Army, Navy and Air Force.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mathieson |first=David Scott |date=2023-01-16 |title=Targeting Myanmar's factories of death |url=https://asiatimes.com/2023/01/targeting-myanmars-factories-of-death/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Asia Times |language=en-US |archive-date=29 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329055826/https://asiatimes.com/2023/01/targeting-myanmars-factories-of-death/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The main products include [[automatic rifle]]s, [[machine gun]]s, [[sub-machine gun]]s, [[anti-aircraft guns]], complete range of mortar and [[artillery shell|artillery ammunition]], [[aircraft]] and anti-aircraft ammunition, [[tank]] and anti-tank ammunition, [[Bomb|bombs]], [[grenade]]s, [[anti-tank mine]]s, [[anti-personnel mine]]s such as the [[M14 mine|M14]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.karenhumanrightsgroup.org/photoreports/2008photos/gallery2008/section5.html |access-date=2 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501105138/http://www.karenhumanrightsgroup.org/photoreports/2008photos/gallery2008/section5.html |archive-date=1 May 2011 |title=Karen Human Rights Group &#124; KHRG Photo Gallery 2008 &#124; Landmines, mortars, army camps and soldiers }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HK04Ae01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229045738/http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HK04Ae01.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=29 December 2006|title=Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news – Myanmar, the world's landmine capital|access-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> [[pyrotechnics]], commercial [[Explosive|explosives]] and [[commercial products]], and [[Rocket|rockets]] and so forth. DI have produced new [[Assault rifle|assault rifles]] and [[Light machine gun|light machine-guns]] for the infantry. The MA series of weapons were designed to replace the old German-designed but locally manufactured [[Heckler & Koch]] [[Heckler & Koch G3|G3s]] and G4s that equipped Burma's army since the 1960s.<ref name=":2" />