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Several Chilean companies not primarily engaged in the
production of military matériel also have dabbled in this
field.
Longest established of these is the General Society of
Commerce
(Sociedad General de Comercio--Sogeco). Founded in 1941,
Sogeco did
not enter the arms business until 1974. It was initially
concerned
with the production of bomb trolleys for the FACh. Sogeco
also
developed the ejection seat for the Pillán and, through
its
subsidiary Famil, has produced two models of a towed twin
20mm
antiaircraft artillery gun, known as the FAM-2 and based
on either
the Oerlikon KAD 20 or the Hispano-Suiza 820. The firm of
Makina,
which produces the armored bodies of the Cardoen vehicles,
itself
developed the Carancho 180, a 4x4 airfield defense armored
vehicle,
for the FACh. Ferrimar Limitada, a firm engaged mainly in
the
construction of steel-hulled fishing craft and with no
previous
experience in the defense field, developed an artillery
computer,
designated Carmo, a light landing craft, and projects for
modularized mobile command centers, in addition to its own
Avispa
cluster bomb in the mid-1980s. Despite some success on the
export
market, the Avispa appeared to be out of production in
1992,
following litigation with Cardoen, which claimed
infringement of
copyright. The interest of Ferrimar in the field of
military
production appeared subsequently to have lapsed.
Data as of March 1994
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