The units and enterprises of the Ministry of Defense Industry, established in 2005 on the personal initiative of President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev, provide the Azerbaijani Army with weapons and ammunition. Specialists of the ministry together with the military are testing new types of weapons and ammunition in real combat conditions.

Axar.az report tat The enterprises of the Ministry of Defense Industry have started mass production of a new type of strike-type unmanned aerial vehicle "Iti Qovan" with greater destructive power. This historic statement of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev was written on the wings of air defence systems. At present, "Iti Qovan" anti-aircraft missiles are used by the Azerbaijani Army.