JSC GSKB Almaz-Antey headquarters in Moscow

JSC NPO Almaz named after A.A. Raspletin (, former SB-1, 1947–1950; KB-1, 1950–1966; MKB Strela, 1966–1971; TsKB Almaz, 1971–1988; NPO Almaz, 1988–2008; GSKB Almaz-Antey, 2008–2015) is a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

/Russian military R&D enterprise founded in 1947. It is the core of the

Almaz-Antey JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" () is a Russian state-owned company in the arms industry, a result of a merger of Antey Corporation and NPO Almaz, unifying some of the national military enterprises, in particular, the developers of anti-airc ...

holding. Headquarters – Moscow, Leningradsky av., 80.

History

The company is named after its chief designer . Since 1955, KB-1 developed such

air defence Anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) is the counter to aerial warfare and includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action".AAP-6 It encompasses surface-based, subsurface (Submarine#Armament, submarine-lau ...

missile systems as the

S-25 Berkut The S-25, initially designated as Berkut (; "Berkut" means golden eagle in English) is a surface-to-air guided missile, the first operational SAM system in the Soviet Union. In the early 1950s it was tested at Kapustin Yar. It was deployed in se ...

S-75 Dvina The S-75 (Russian: С-75; NATO reporting name SA-2 Guideline) is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defence system. It is built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Following its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the ...

S-125 Neva/Pechora The S-125 ''Neva/Pechora'' (, NATO reporting name SA-3 ''Goa'') is a Soviet surface-to-air missile system that was designed by Aleksei Isaev to complement the S-25 Berkut, S-25 and S-75 Dvina, S-75. It has a shorter effective range and lower enga ...

, S-200 Angara/Vega/Dubna, S-300,

S-400 Triumf The S-400 Triumf ( – Triumf; translation: Triumph; NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler), previously known as the S-300 PMU-3, is a mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed in the 1990s by Russia's NPO Almaz as an upgrade to the ...

S-300PMU The S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble) is a series of long-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the former Soviet Union. It was produced by NPO Almaz for the Soviet Air Defence Forces to defend against air raids and cruise ...

, S-300PMU2, and S-350E Vityaz. On 30 November 2009, the board of directors of Almaz-Antey voted to reorganize the joint-stock companies NIEMI, NIIRP,

MNIIRE Altair Marine Scientific Research Institute of radioelectronics or MNIIRE Altair design bureau () is a Soviet/Russian enterprise, developer of naval SA missile systems and radars. Headquartered in Moscow. History Founded in 1933 as the All-Union State ...

and MNIIPA, merging them with NPO Almaz to form GSKB joint venture. GSKB became the head R&D arm of Almaz-Antey holdings, becoming its Head System Design Bureau (). NIIRP scientific & research center is developing the Joint system of air and ballistic missile defense (). Earlier, NIIRP successfully developed the A-135 BMD system together with Amur-P multi-channel firing system which were put into operation to protect Moscow on 17 February 1995. NIIRP had previously designed the A-35 and A-35M BMD systems, which defended Moscow from 1977 until the full deployment of the A-135. In February 2011, it was announced that the first S-500 missile systems should be in serial production by 2014. There will be also a version of the system called S-1000.

Current product line

* ''Area and object air defence'' *:

*: S-400 Triumf missile system *: S-300PMU2 ''Favorit'' missile system *: S-300P missile system and modifications * ''Land forces air defence (by NIEMI scientific & research center)'' *: Antey-2500 missile system *: S-300V missile system *: Tor-M2E short-range missile system *: 55Zh6M Nebo M and UME three-band anti-stealth radarCarlo Kopp and Bill Sweetman.
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/ref> * ''Ship-based air defence (by MNIIRE Altair scientific & research center)'' *: Shtil-1 multi-channel ship-based middle-range missile system *: S-300F ''Rif-M'' ship-based missile system *: Klinok ship-based missile system *: 3M-47 Gibka, naval turret launcher *: Podzagolovok-24E – Basic Collective Mutual Interference Avoidance System (ship-based electromagnetic compatibility electronic equipment) *: Moskit-E, Moskit-MVE missile system * ''Automated control systems (by MNIIPA scientific & research center)'' *: Baikal-1ME *: Krim-KTE *: Universal-1E *: Fundament-2E

References

External links

Official site of GSKB Almaz-Antey

Official site of Almaz-Antey

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