NPO Almaz

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NPO Almaz named after A.A. Raspletin
Company type Joint stock company
Industryradiotechnics
Founded1947
Headquarters,
Russia
Key people
Vitaly Neskorodov, General Director (since February 2011)
Pavel Sozinov, General Designer (since February 2011)
Products Anti-aircraft defence systems, Missiles
Revenue55,165,100,000 Russian ruble (2017)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Parent Almaz-Antey
Subsidiaries NIEMI, NIIRP, MNIIRE Altair and MNIIPA scientific & research centers.
Website www.raspletin.com
NPO Almaz headquarters in Moscow (built in 1953) JSC GSKB Almaz-Antey headquarters in Moscow.jpg
NPO Almaz headquarters in Moscow (built in 1953)

JSC NPO Almaz named after A.A. Raspletin (Russian: ГСКБ Концерна ПВО "Алмаз-Антей", 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/Russian military R&D enterprise founded in 1947. It is the core of the Almaz-Antey holding. Headquarters – Moscow, Leningradsky av., 80.

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History

The company is named after its chief designer Aleksandr Andreyevich Raspletin  [ ru ].

Since 1955, KB-1 developed such air defence missile systems as the S-25 Berkut, S-75 Dvina, S-125 Neva/Pechora, S-200 Angara/Vega/Dubna, S-300, S-400 Triumf, S-300PMU, 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 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 (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. 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.

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