[3] At the opening of Ukraine's only facility serially manufacturing small arms at Fort in March 1998, association officials announced that the plant in Vinnytsia, which over ₴5 million (about $1.2 million) had been invested in over two years, was capable of large-scale production of small arms.

The plant launched serial production of the Fort 12 pistol ordered primarily by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.

[5] According to Fort chief engineer Evgeniy Bokovoj, all of Ukraine's army and police forces are supplied by the plant's output.

[6] By March 2014, the plant developed over a dozen pistol and gun modifications, some of which were demonstrated at the IDEX-1999, IDEX-2001 and IDEF-2001 international arms exhibitions.

[citation needed] According to media reports, an agreement was signed in October 2000 for the delivery of a batch of Fort pistols to Uzbekistan.