ArmaTek was a manufacturer responsible for the creation of VL-61/79 proton bombs that were utilized by the Galactic Empire in their TIE/sk x1 experimental air superiority fighters. Furthermore, ArmaTek also manufactured space mines for the Empire's use in maintaining control over sparsely patrolled territories; some of these minefields persisted even following the Empire's fall. Thrawn's forces possessed ArmaTek mines during their exile on the extragalactic planet Peridea.