The JSC Precision Engineering Design Bureau named after A. E. Nudelman (), shortened to "KB Tochmash" (), is a missile design bureau located in Moscow. It was founded in 1934 under the designation

OKB OKB () is a transliteration of the Russian initials for "" (), which translates to "Experimental Design Bureau." It could also mean or "Special Design Bureau" in english. During the Soviet era, OKBs were closed institutions working on design and ...

-16 under the leadership of

Yakov Taubin Yakov Grigoryevich Taubin (; 1900 – 28 October 1941) was a Soviet weapons designer. He is best known for creating the first successful automatic grenade launcher. He also designed a prototype gun for the Ilyushin Il-2 which lost in trials again ...

, but after his arrest and execution, leadership fell to

Alexander Nudelman Aleksandr Emmanuilovich Nudelman (; 21 August 1912 – 2 August 1996) was a Soviet weapon designer and researcher. Numerous weapon systems were created under his direction. Nudelman made special contributions to the development of aircraft-mounte ...

, who would lead it until 1987.

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KB Tochmash has designed many weapon systems, including the following: Gun systems *

Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 The Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 () was a aircraft cannon, which replaced the unreliable Shpitalny Sh-37 gun. Large caliber was planned to allow destruction of both ground targets (including armoured ones) and planes (ability to shoot down a bomber wi ...

Autocannon *

Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 The NS-23 was a aircraft cannon designed by A. E. Nudelman, A. Suranov, G. Zhirnykh, V. Nemenov, S. Lunin, and M. Bundin during World War II as a replacement for the Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23 cannon. It entered service in 1944. The NS-23 round was ...

Autocannon *

Nudelman-Suranov NS-45 The Nudelman-Suranov NS-45 was an enlarged version of the Soviet Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 aircraft autocannon. It was evaluated for service on 44 Yakovlev Yak-9K aircraft during World War II, but proved to stress the airframes too much. The NS-45 w ...

Autocannon *

Nudelman N-37 The Nudelman N-37 was a 37 mm (1.46 in) aircraft autocannon used by the Soviet Union. It was designed during World War II by V. Ya. Nemenov of Alexander Nudelman, A.E. Nudelman's OKB-16 to replace the earlier Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 and e ...

Autocannon *

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 The Nudelman-Richter NR-23 is a Soviet autocannon widely used in military aircraft of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It was designed by A. E. Nudelman and A. A. Richter to replace the wartime Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 and Volkov-Yartsev VYa-2 ...

Autocannon *

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30 The Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30 was a Soviet autocannon widely used in military aircraft of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It was designed by A.E. Nudelman and A. A. Rikhter, entering service in 1954. Description Prior to the introduction of the ...

Autocannon *

Rikhter R-23 The Rikhter R-23 is an aircraft autocannon developed for the Soviet Air Force starting in the late 1950s. It was designed to be as short as possible to avoid problems found on high-speed aircraft when the guns were pointed into the airstream. The ...

Autocannon * Nudelman-Nemenov NN-30 CIWS *

AGS-17 The AGS-17 Plamya ( Russian: Пламя; ''Flame'') is a Soviet-designed automatic grenade launcher in service worldwide. Description The AGS-17 is a heavy infantry support weapon designed to operate from a tripod or mounted on an installation ...

Automatic Grenade Launcher Rockets * S-5 * S-8 * S-25 Anti-tank missiles * 3M11 Falanga *

9K112 Kobra The 9K112 Kobra (NATO reporting name: AT-8 Songster) is a SACLOS anti-tank missile system of the Soviet Union. It is fired from the 125 mm main guns of the T-64 and T-80 series of tanks. A newer design based on the same concept is the 9M119 ( ...

Anti-aircraft missile systems * SA-9 / 9K31 Strela-1 Self Propelled Air Defense Missile System, * SA-13 / 9K35 Strela-10 Tracked Air Defense Missile System, **9K35 Strela-10 in modified versions (M/M1/M2/M3 and M4), *

Sosna-R The 9M337 Sosna-R (Pine) (SA-X-25) is a Russian radar and laser-guided supersonic (Mach 2.6) two-stage missile. It is used in Sosna-R short range air defense missile system designed to protect military units from air attacks in all types of comb ...

Air Defense Missile System (successor to Strela-10), *Palma/Palash combined air defense gun and missile system

close-in weapon system A close-in weapon system (CIWS ) is a point-defense weapon system for detecting and destroying short-range incoming missiles and enemy aircraft which have penetrated the outer defenses, typically mounted on a naval ship. Nearly all classes of l ...

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* {{authority control Technology companies established in 1934 Defence companies of the Soviet Union High Precision Systems Companies based in Moscow 1934 establishments in the Soviet Union Design bureaus Research institutes in the Soviet Union

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