POF Eye : Corner Shot Gun By Pakistan Ordinance

Source : Firearm Blog

Saw a video on Youtube a few days back about POF eye, which Pakistan refers to its new modern warfare weapon otherwise known as Corner Shot Gun. Lets give you a brief overview about this gun;

Corner Shot Gun:

The Corner Shot is the ultimate solution for dealing with the deadly threats that lurk “around the corner” in a variety of tactical situations encountered by military and law enforcement personnel, anti-terror units and SWAT teams operating in open or built-up areas, inside buildings, rooms and enclosed spaces, and especially in forced entry situations. (Source: Defence & Weapon Tech)

POF Eye Overview:

The name given to Pakistani version of Corner Shot Gun is POF eye , with POF short for Pakistan Ordnance Factories. This product first came to limelight in late 2008 during the IDEAS 2008 in Karachi. Chairman POF Board Lt Gen Syed Sabahat Husain told the visiting delegates at IDEAS 2008 that this new product of POF may meet the requirement of law enforcing agencies in order to curb the terrorist activities. The live demonstration of this gun was also shown to the delegates.

Design & Features:

According to one of the designers, Ashfaq Ahmad, the overall designing and finalizing of this gun took 6 months. It has a few variations which can be summed up as follows:

It can be mounted with standard 9mm semi-automatic pistol, sub-machine gun or grenade launcher.
It includes a small high-resolution camera, laser sight and a colour LCD monitor, which can observe and view a target from various vantage points.
The video camera enables forces to scan an area prior to pinpointing a target and broadcast the footage directly, in real time, to the operating team behind, or to a Command Post monitor.
Its head can turn 75 degrees.

Operations:

I am not sure if the weapon is currently operational or not , but to my knowledge its still not operational. Lt. Gen Sabahat Hussain did mention a the time of Ideas 2008 that Once the weapon is put into mass production, POF would take orders for its supply to prospective local and international buyers, which indicates its still in the proto-type phase. Although i reckon by now it is fully ready.

Besides its worthy to mention that Israel is the other country which currently hold similar product.