Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (CRET) (, КРЭТ (KRET)) is a

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within the Russian state-owned

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group that develops and manufactures military specialized radio-electronic, state identification, aviation and radio-

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, multi-purpose measuring devices, detachable electrical connectors and a variety of civil products. The Corporate Group has developed one of the two existing state radiolocation identification systems.

Structure

Companies of the holding: * Research and Production Company RITM * JSC Automatics * Bryansk Electromechanical Plant * Vladykinsky Mechanical Plant * All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Gradient * State Ryazan Instrument Plant * Zhigulevsky Radio Plant * Engineering support of tests Takeoff * Kazan Instrument-Making Design Bureau * Kaluga Plant of Radio Engineering Equipment * Kaluga Research Radio Engineering Institute * Design Bureau of the plant Russia * Design Bureau for Radio Monitoring, Navigation and Communication * Concern Avionika * Aerospace Equipment Corporation * Phazotron * Kursk Plant Mayak * MKB Compass * Moscow Institute of Electromechanics and Automation * Moscow Radio Plant TEMP * Scientific Research Institute Ekran * Research Institute of Aviation Equipment * Research Institute for the Development of Connectors and Specialty Electronics Products * Scientific-Production Association Kvant * Scientific Production Association Radioelectronics Shimko * Scientific-Production Enterprise Izmeritel * Scientific-Production Enterprise ElTom * Nizhny Novgorod Research and Production Association named after MV Frunze * Experimental Design Bureau Electroautomatics named after PA Efimov *

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* Radiopribor * Ramensky Instrument Making Plant * Rostov Plant Pribor * Special Design Bureau of Radio Measuring Equipment * Taganrog Scientific Research Institute of Communications * Ulyanovsk Instrument Making Design Bureau * Ural Instrument Making Plant * Ufimskoe Instrument-Making Production Association * FNPTS NNIPI Quartz * Fazotron-VMZ * Almetyevsky Plant Radiopribor * Aeropribor-Voskhod * Kazan Scientific and Research Technological Institute of Computer Engineering * Design Bureau of Industrial Automation * OJSC Microtechnology * Research Institute of Special Information and Measuring Systems * Scientific - Production center SAPSAN * Scientific and technical center of the system and means of state recognition * JSC Lever * Bryansk special design bureau * Stavropol Radio Plant Signal * Tambov Plant Elektropribor * Techpribor

History

On July 16, 2014, the

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imposed sanctions through the

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Office of Foreign Assets Control The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Treasury, United States Treasury Department. It administers and enforces economic and trade economic sanctions, ...

(OFAC) by adding Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies and other entities to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) in retaliation for the ongoing

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

, annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the

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, and the Russian interference in Ukraine. Despite that, in 2020 KRET participated in a Russian medical aid delivery during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. Delivering its medical equipment like very need

ventilator A ventilator is a type of breathing apparatus, a class of medical technology that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathi ...

s to the US, with reports claiming that the Russian aid was partly paid by the US and the

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. Officials from the US administration replied that sanctions aren't applied for medical supply.

Communications Equipment for Russian Forces

United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation of KRET/Rostec is producing fifth-generation Rostec R-168-5UN-2 Military-Transceiver. The VHF band radio with GPS data transmit ability and a digital crypto system and an output power of 8 Watt.

Sanctions

On June 18, 2021, Ukraine added the concern to the sanctions list. On December 16, 2022, Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies was added to the EU sanctions lists as a developer and manufacturer of military-grade electronic products, bearing responsibility for material or financial support for actions that undermined or threatened the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. The concern is also on the sanctions list of New Zealand.

References

External links

Official website
{{Portalbar, Companies, Russia Technology companies of Russia Defence companies of Russia manufacturing companies based in Moscow Russian entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions