JSC Phazotron-NIIR (Phazotron-NIIR, ) is

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's largest developer of military

radar Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track ...

s and

avionics Avionics (a portmanteau of ''aviation'' and ''electronics'') are the Electronics, electronic systems used on aircraft. Avionic systems include communications, Air navigation, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the ...

. Named after one of its major projects, the first

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in the former-USSR, it was formed in June 1917 to produce aviation instruments. Its main office is located in

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and it has 25 affiliated companies, branches and separate units in Moscow and other cities in Russia and

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. It employs an estimated 5000 employees. During the Soviet era, it was commonly known as the Scientific Research Institute of

Radar Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track ...

, NII Radar or NIIR (Not to be confused with NII Radio, also

NIIR FSBI NII Radio or NIIR () is a Russian Scientific-Research Institute created in 1949 by a decree of the Soviet Government. History On September 7, 1949, in Moscow, on the initiative of the Minister of Communications of the Soviet Union, Nikola ...

). One of its former chief designers was Adolf Tolkachev, who became an American spy and over the years between 1979 and 1985, supplied a great deal of information about such projects R-23, R-24, R-33, R-27, and R-60, S-300, as well as about fighter-interceptor aircraft radars used on

MiG-29 The Mikoyan MiG-29 (; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twinjet, twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the large ...

MiG-31 The Mikoyan MiG-31 (; NATO reporting name: Foxhound) is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for the Soviet Air Forces by the Mikoyan design bureau as a replacement for the earlier MiG-25 "Foxbat"; the MiG-31 is based on and shares de ...

, and

Su-27 The Sukhoi Su-27 (; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supersonic supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large US fourth-generation jet fighters suc ...

and other avionics directly to the

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. The main competitor of Phazotron in the former

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and

is the

Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design JSC V.V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (, , NIIP) is a joint stock company, one of the Russian enterprises in the development of weaponry control systems for fighter planes and mobile medium range anti-aircraft ...

, or NIIP, and both design houses were briefly joined but then separated again.

Products

Phazotron builds radars and radar weapon and defense control systems for aircraft, gun-missile ground-based and ship-borne air defense systems. Phazotron also builds radars for space vehicles. In addition to its military products, Phazotron also develops weather radars and civil products.

Radars

* N010 Zhuk Airborne Radar * N007 Zaslon Airborne Radar

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* {{authority control Aerospace companies of the Soviet Union Research institutes in the Soviet Union Defence companies of the Soviet Union Aerospace companies of Russia Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies Companies based in Moscow Electronics companies of the Soviet Union Radar manufacturers

Products

Radars

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