KB Tochmash
(Redirected from OKB-16)
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| Industry | Defense |
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| Founded | 1934 |
| Founder | Yakov Taubin |
| Headquarters | , Russia |
| Products | Anti-aircraft defence systems, MANPADS, Missiles, Autocannons, Close-in weapon systems (CIWS) |
| Parent | High Precision Systems |
| Website | www |
The JSC Precision Engineering Design Bureau named after A. E. Nudelman (Russian: Конструкторское бюро точного машиностроения им. А. Э. Нудельмана, romanized: Konstruktorskoye Byuro Tochnogo Mashinostroeniya im. A. E. Nudelmana), shortened to "KB Tochmash" (Russian: КБ Точмаш, romanized: KB Tochmash), is a missile design bureau located in Moscow. It was founded in 1934 under the designation OKB-16 under the leadership of Yakov Taubin,[1] but after his arrest and execution, leadership fell to Alexander Nudelman, who would lead it until 1987.[2]
Products
[edit]KB Tochmash has designed many weapon systems, including the following:[3]
Gun systems
- Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 Autocannon
- Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 Autocannon
- Nudelman-Suranov NS-45 Autocannon
- Nudelman N-37 Autocannon
- Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 Autocannon
- Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30 Autocannon
- Rikhter R-23 Autocannon
- Nudelman-Nemenov NN-30 CIWS
- AGS-17 Automatic Grenade Launcher
Rockets
Anti-tank missiles
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 Air Defense Missile System (successor to Strela-10),[4]
- Palma/Palash combined air defense gun and missile system close-in weapon system.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Таубин Яков Григорьевич" [Taubin, Yakov Grigoryevich]. Карта-справочник города Королев (Maps and Directories of Korolev). Retrieved 2022-01-04. (in Russian)
- ^ "ABOUT A.NUDELMAN". KB Tochmash. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ^ "History". kbtochmash.com. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ^ "Sosna: Air Defense Missile System". kbtochmash.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.