NPO Bazalt () is a weapons manufacturing company in

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that took over (or continued) the production of weapons such as the

RPG-7 The RPG-7 is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank, rocket launcher. The RPG-7 and its predecessor, the RPG-2, were designed by the Soviet Union, and are now manufactured by the Russian company Bazalt. The weapon has t ...

after the collapse of the

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. NPO Bazalt manufactures the RPG-7V2 and the

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. AO NPO Bazalt is included in the

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History

Bazalt was founded in 1916. Over its history, the company created 700 models of ammunition for military use. Bazalt is one of the leading designers and developers of many variants of aircraft bombs, anti-tank and anti-saboteur marine grenade launcher complexes, mortar shells of many variants, and calibers and other kinds of ammunition. The company's most famous product is the

, developed in the 1960s and used by the armies of over 40 countries, with over one million having been built by the company or on license by 2004. Ammunition developed by Bazalt is used by the armed forces of over 80 countries in the world. Licenses for production of 61 types of ammunition were transferred to 11 countries in the world. Since December 2012, Bazalt is a subsidiary of

Techmash Tecmash ()—formal name Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo Nauchno-Proizvodstvenny Kontsern Tekhnologii Mashinostroeniya ()—is a 2010s-20s Russian arms industry company within the Rostec state corporation group producing and developing weapons, munition ...

, a

company. Under EO 13661, the

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on July 16, 2014, imposed sanctions on NPO Bazalt through the

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(OFAC) by adding NPO Bazalt and other entities to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) in retaliation for the ongoing

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. On 12 September 2014 the EU published sanctions against NPO Bazalt, amongst other entities, under Council Decisions 2014/658/CFSP and 2014/659/CFSP. The particular goods or services list of the Council was subsequently modified several times: *COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2022/327 of 25 February 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 *COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2022/2474 of 16 December 2022 amending Decision 2014/512/CFSP Bazalt main building

The government of Ukraine maintains a helpful page, and lists Switzerland as an additional sanctioned of NPO Bazalt.

Production

* RPG-16 *

RPG-18 The RPG-18 Mukha () is a Soviet short-range, disposable light anti-tank Shoulder-launched missile weapon, rocket launcher designed in 1972, based on the American M72 LAW. The RPG-18 has been in service in over 20 conflicts and used by over 20 arm ...

* RPG-22 * RPG-26 * RPG-27 * RPG-28 *

* RPG-30 * RPG-32 * PG-7VR * PBK-500U Drel: Glide cluster bomb.

Areas of activity

* Aviation bomb armament ** high-explosive and high-explosive fragmentation aerial bombs ** concrete bombs ** volumetric detonating bombs ** incendiary bombs and tanks ** means of identification, designation and destruction of submarines ** auxiliary, special and training bombs ** small-sized targets * Melee weapons **

grenade launchers A grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially designed, large caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke, or gas warhead. Today, the term generally refers to a class of dedicated firearms firing unitary grenade cartridges. The mo ...

hand grenades A grenade is a small explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a shell (explosive projectile) shot from the muzzle of a rifle (as a rifle grenade) or a grenade launcher. A modern hand grenade g ...

* Mortar and shell armament ** mortar rounds ** shells for

artillery Artillery consists of ranged weapons that launch Ammunition, munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and l ...

* Marine anti-sabotage grenade launchers * Aviation fire extinguishing agent ASP-500

Management

* Kulakov Nikolai Timofeevich * Burakov Peter Gerasimovich * Bunin Sergey Alekseevich * Kupchikhin Alexey Ivanovich * Rukazenkov Dmitry Dmitrievich * Kaverin Oleg Konstantinovich * Anatoly Stepanovich Obukhov (1982-2000) * Korenkov Vladimir Vladimirovich (2000-May 2009) * Alexander Leonidovich Rybas (2009-June 2012) * Porkhachev Vladimir Anatolyevich (June 2012-November 2019) * Kashirskikh Andrey Vasilyevich (2019-2022) * Sergey Viktorovich Zhuikov (2022-May 2023) * Porkhachev Nikolay Vladimirovich (May 2023-present)

References

External links

* http://www.bazalt.ru/ Company website * http://www.bazalt.ru/en/ Company website English page * http://www.norinco.com/ Norinco, Chinese weapon manufacturer of similar weapons such as the

Type 69 RPG The Type 69 85mm RPG (), made by Norinco, is a Chinese variant of the Soviet RPG-7. First introduced in 1972, the Type 69 is a common individual anti-tank weapon in service with the People's Liberation Army, PLA. More advanced Rocket-propelled gr ...