Scope of the Slovak Defense Industry

- Production of artillery equipment and weapons systems for tanks and combat vehicles.
- Production of tanks and light wheeled armored vehicles.

- Production and modernization of both wheeled and tracked armored vehicles.

- Production of arms and small-caliber ammunition.

- Production and filling of large-caliber ammunition including 30 mm ammunition.

- Production of plastic explosives and explosives for filling of large-caliber ammunition.

- Research and development of various weapons systems, artillery equipment and ammunition, mobile command and control systems, testing of defense related equipment.

- Design, development and production of medium-class trucks and assemblies of armored vehicles.

- Design, development and production of fuel and water tankers and carriers.

- Design, development and production of engineering equipment and mine-clearing systems.

- Production of transmissions for tanks and armored vehicles.

- Production of shell bodies and cartridges for large-caliber ammunition.

- Design, development and production of electronic devices for outfit of individual troops, combat vehicles and mobile systems.

- Design, development and production of various versions of tanks and armored vehicles.

- Design, development and production of air-traffic control systems and other support aviation systems.

- Design, development and production of training systems and simulators.

- Military maintenance and repair facilities for defense equipment, ground and aviation systems and materiel that come under the responsibility of MOD of Slovakia including military technical and testing institutes.

- Marketing and sales of defense equipment in accordance with the Act NO. 179/1998 of the Code by the National Council

- Supply of spare parts, provision of logistic support and other related services.

Vast majority of the above products and services are being offered and supplied by the ADISR members.
Within the past decade the Slovak defense industries have experienced several transformations leading to a substantial decrease in production of both defense and commercial products as a result of internal restrictions and geopolitical changes in the European region.
A significant part of the mechanical and electro-technical industries including defense industries have been privatized within a first wave of privatization that took place in Slovakia in the early 90s. The major defense companies; however, could not be privatized as they were considered as having a strategic importance to Slovakia and excluded by law from the privatization process until the 1999 when the respective Act dealing with "strategic companies" was repealed. Before that the major defense companies were under a direct control of the government. At present a scene and optimal conditions are being set up to privatize those companies and attract foreign investors.