The Egyptian Ministry of Military Production is responsible for managing the development and operation of military factories in the Egyptian Republic and now chaired by Major General Mahammad Salah el-Din Mostafa, who took over the ministry within the ministry of Mostafa Madbouly in 14 August 2022.
[1][2][3] The urgent need to rely in the field of armaments on Egyptian national manufacturing arose as a result of the negative effects that resulted from the 1948 Palestine War and the issues of corrupt weapons that ignited the flame of national feeling during the years preceding the July 23 Revolution.
The Ministry of War formed a technical administration from the most efficient weapons and ammunition officers, as well as from Maintenance Corps.
Cooperation with Egypt was organized without preconditions in the field of supplying the equipment and machinery needed to build munitions factories, which were planned to begin military production.
[4][5] In 1951, the Supreme Council for Military Factories was established to play a central planning role and be responsible for developing Egyptian military industries and establishing industries feeding them.