Military Arms of Ostrava

Military Arms of Ostrava (MAO) is an arms manufacturer based in, as its name suggests, Ostrava, in the Czech Republic. Several of their products are featured in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and other titles of the Deus Ex series that are set in the.

Weapons

 * PAX-22 Tranquilizer Rifle
 * Widowmaker TX
 * Widowmaker TX Tech-1, and its variant, the Devastator
 * Riot CS gas grenades
 * An unnamed submachine gun used by the New Sons of Freedom in 2027.

Equipment

 * MAO also manufacture protection equipment, such as the hip pads used by some Belltower security guards, and the helmets worn by heavy troopers, all clearly marked with the company logo.

Trivia

 * In Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: The Fall, the packaging for shotgun ammunition shows the logo of MAO, even though the in-game description attributes the ammunition to Kaiga. This error was corrected in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, in which the corresponding ammo packaging shows the logo of Kaiga.
 * According to The Art of Deus Ex Universe, the Widowmaker shotgun was designed to convey the characteristic of a weapon that is mass-produced quickly at low manufacturing costs.