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-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-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 radar
[Carlo Kopp and Bill Sweetman.]
New Russian Airpower Efforts Show Progress
''Aviation Week & Space Technology
''Aviation Week & Space Technology'', often abbreviated ''Aviation Week'' or ''AW&ST'', is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network, a division of Informa. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aeros ...
'', 19 June 2012
Archive
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* ''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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