"Hayk's Arrow" Armenian Strategic Center
Maps defence manufacturers, industrial partnerships, facilities and production initiatives. Separates cooperation agreements, prototypes and public demonstrations from reported manufacturing, deliveries and exports, with the source and status of each record.
Reported employees of OJSC TNK Dastan at 31 December. Issuer-wide machinery and instrument-making business includes industrial, medical, special equipment and consumer products; not defence-only employment or national arms-industry headcount.
Whole issuer, including non-defence business. 2020 and 2022–2025 have explicit year-end rows. The 2021 annual filing instead dates workforce to 30 September, so that year is a gap here and a separate dated record. No interpolation.
| Year | Value | Status and source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 558 | Reported · Dastan · 2025 year-end issuer disclosure · p1 §2 workforce row · p. 1Notes and conversion558 employees at 31 December 2025, section2 workforce row. Whole issuer, not defence-only or consolidated subsidiary employment. |
| 2024 | 658 | Reported · Dastan · 2024 year-end issuer disclosure · p1 §2 workforce row · p. 1Notes and conversion658 employees at 31 December 2024, section2 workforce row. Whole issuer, not defence-only or consolidated subsidiary employment. |
| 2023 | 738 | Reported · Dastan · 2023 year-end issuer disclosure · p1 §2 workforce row · p. 1Notes and conversion738 employees at 31 December 2023, section2 workforce row. Whole issuer, not defence-only or consolidated subsidiary employment. |
| 2022 | 713 | Reported · Dastan · 2022 year-end issuer disclosure · p1 §2 workforce row · p. 1Notes and conversion713 employees at 31 December 2022, section2 workforce row. Whole issuer, not defence-only or consolidated subsidiary employment. |
| 2020 | 776 | Reported · Dastan · 2020 year-end issuer disclosure · p1 §2 workforce row · p. 1Notes and conversion776 employees at 31 December 2020, section2 workforce row. Whole issuer, not defence-only or consolidated subsidiary employment. |
During a Dastan visit, the president instructed officials and management to examine domestic unmanned-aircraft production.
The presidency describes existing specialized production, including torpedo armament. The UAV instruction is a feasibility and development direction, not an announced production line, confirmed contract or delivered aircraft.
A ten-year budget loan of $43.6 Mn was allocated for the Bishkek Stamping Plant’s production-line modernization and operation.
The Economy Ministry report cites Cabinet order No.280-r of 27 May 2024 and KGS 3.8 billion. This is approved credit, not audited disbursement, completed modernization or military expenditure.
Original-source amount: A ten-year budget loan of 3,800 KGS million was allocated for the Bishkek Stamping Plant’s production-line modernization and operation.
US$43.6 million. Original-source amount: 3,800.0 KGS million. Annual average (2024-01-01–2024-12-31): 87.150313 KGS / USD.
Cabinet decision No.722 transferred the Bishkek Stamping Plant and the state’s shareholder functions in Dastan to the Defence Ministry.
This is the decision date, not a January 2024 news-report date. The act enters into force ten days after official publication; the publication date was not established here.
The president inspected maintenance and current repair of armoured vehicles at the Central Repair Base.
The statement distinguishes existing work from 2023–2024 expansion plans. It does not count repaired vehicles or prove that planned additional facilities were completed. This is the same base opened in October 2022.
A later presidency statement dates the opening of the Central Repair Base for weapons and military equipment to October 2022.
Only the month is established by this source. The later inspection describes maintenance and current repairs; no annual repair output or national production capacity is inferred.
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Dastan’s issuer disclosure lists 736 employees as of 30 September 2021.
The PDF is filed as the 2021 annual report, but its workforce row explicitly says September. It is kept as a dated snapshot and excluded from the year-end workforce series. Whole issuer, including non-defence business.
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Decision No.126 creates a wholly state-owned corporation for an investment project to produce UAV systems.
The act orders corporate registration and capital formation. It does not establish that a UAV factory opened, a production line operated or aircraft were delivered. The date is adoption, not an independently verified effective date.
Government decision No.486 provided for creating Kyrgyzkural under the Defence Ministry.
The original decision date and title are reproduced in the official 2016 amendment. This is legal creation, not a confirmed factory opening or production output.
Source review through 1 November 2026. Historical national defence accounts cover 1994–2003 and remain separate from SIPRI’s broader estimates through 2025. No defence-only current budget is inferred from combined security totals. Personnel estimates stop in 2020. Programme accounts use U.S. fiscal years; Dastan employment covers the whole issuer. Announcements, declared transfers, handovers and public displays remain distinct.
This is a curated public-source reference, not a complete inventory. Each record identifies an event or publication date, implementation stage and evidence type; the detail explains which date is known. An official report establishes what the issuer said; a contract does not establish delivery, and delivery does not establish readiness. Unknown quantities remain unknown. Records count publications or developments, not weapons, personnel or military strength.