Other Names: 7 Nissan Fuze Factory; Narahwhan Fuze Factory; 7 April Factory
Location: Baghdad, Narahwhan district, approximately 25km SE of Baghdad city center
Subordinate to: Military Industrialization Corporation
Primary Function: Production of fuze parts for Ababil-50, Al-Samoud, and other tactical missiles; production of shell casings for 122mm, 130mm, and 152mm artillery rounds

Description:
7 Nissan was a medium-sized facility, with some ten workshops of varying sizes and capabilities as well as a foundry, hot forge, and assembly buildings. 7 Nissan was established before the first Gulf War to produce fuzes under a Cardoen (Chile) license. Only 20 engineers and technicians and a small number of workshops were involved with missile fuze production; the vast majority of efforts were directed towards artillery shell production of a capacity of thousands of rounds per month. UN inspectors were particularly interested in the site not only for its relationship to missile fuze production but also for its inherent capability for high-quality machining (the site contained a number of capable CNC machine tools, although sanctions and lack of resources degraded this capability over time).

Key Sources: UN Inspection Data.

	Updated October 2003