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Type | Joint stock company |
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Industry | radiotechnics |
Founded | 1947 |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
Key people |
Vitaly Neskorodov, General Director (since February 2011) Pavel Sozinov, General Designer (since February 2011) |
Products | Air defence missile systems |
Parent | part of Almaz-Antey holding |
Subsidiaries | NIEMI, NIIRP, MNIIRE Altair and MNIIPA scientific & research centers. |
Website | Official site of GSKB Almaz-Antey |
JSC GSKB Almaz-Antey named after A.A. Raspletin (Russian: ГСКБ Концерна ПВО „Алмаз-Антей“, former SB-1, 1947–50; KB-1, 1950–66; MKB Strela, 1966–71; TsKB Almaz, 1971–88; NPO Almaz, 1988–2008) is a Soviet/Russian military R&D enterprise founded in 1947. It is the core of the Almaz-Antey holding. Headquarters – Moscow, Leningradsky , 80.
Since 1955 KB-1 developed such air defence missile systems S-25, S-75, S-125, S-200, S-300, S-400 Triumf, S-300PMU and S-300PMU2, and recently S-350E Vityaz missile system.
Since 30 November 2009 by the decision of the board of directors of Almaz-Antey 4 joint-stock companies were reorganised and joined NPO Almaz to form GSKB joint venture, namely NIEMI, NIIRP, MNIIRE Altair and MNIIPA. GSKB strengthen its position as the head developer of Almaz-Antey holdings, became Head System Design Bureau (Russian: ГСКБ, Головное системное конструкторское бюро).
NIIRP scientific & research center is developing the Joint system of air and ballistic missile defense (Russian: ЕС ЗРО ПВО-ПРО). 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. Its predecessor also designed by NIIRP, the A-35 and A-35M BMD systems, defended Moscow since 1977.
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
- 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
- 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, the ship 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
External links[]
- (Russian) Official site of GSKB Almaz-Antey
- NPO Almaz at Globalsecurity.org
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