KB Tochmash
Russian missile design bureau
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, but after his arrest and execution, leadership fell to Alexander Nudelman, who would lead it until 1987.
01Products
KB Tochmash has designed many weapon systems, including the following:
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),
- Palma/Palash combined air defense gun and missile system close-in weapon system.
Sources and credits
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